Dec
18
2024
Yesterday we wrote about all the losing ACC men’s basketball was doing. Yep we have to distinguish from the women who have 5 teams ranked in the top 25 – Notre Dame, Duke, UNC, Georgia Tech and NC State. How did we get here? How did it get so bad? Remember the ACC dominated the …
Dec
17
2024
Duke, you’re exempt from this discussion. The Blue Devils beat arguably the best team in the country in Auburn and despite a couple of hiccups earlier in the season are a legit National Title and Final 4 threat. Pittsburgh has wins over West Virginia, LSU, and Ohio State but the 33-point loss at Mississppi State …
Dec
10
2024
We’ll start adding NET and RPI rankings once there are enough data points. 18. Miami (3-7, 0-1) Last Week: 18 The losing streak for Miami has hit 7 games. The losing has to stop with Presbyterian right? 17. Virginia Tech (3-6, 0-1) Last Week: 17 Virginia Tech started 3-0 and hasn’t won since. I think …
Dec
01
2024
We’ll start adding NET and RPI rankings once there are enough data points. 18. Miami (3-4) Last Week: 16 Miami lost to a previously winless Charleston Southern team. That’s enough to sink to the bottom of these power rankings. Arkansas and Clemson are this week. Is it time for Jim Larranaga to start thinking about …
Nov
25
2024
We’ll start adding NET and RPI rankings once there are enough data points. 18. Georgia Tech (2-3) Last Week: 18 Cincinnati toyed with Georgia Tech for 40 minutes in Atlanta, as the Jackets showed no signs of moving off this last-place spot. This week is Charleston Southern and Central Arkansas. 17. Virginia Tech (3-2) Last …
Nov
17
2024
We’ll start adding NET and RPI rankings once there are enough data points. 18. Georgia Tech (2-2) Last Week: N/A This wasn’t how Damon Stoudamire’s second season was supposed to start. The Jackets already have two ugly home losses on their resume to North Florida and UGA. They get a really good Cincinnati team on …
Nov
08
2024
ACCPrescription has some background via UNC’s 247 site on the ACC’s lookin period. A prevailing school of thought within ACC circles is that ESPN will not only extend the media rights deal but also increase the current deal. We’ll see. RubbingtheRock says Clemson needs to stop a troubling trend of losing to teams that they …
Oct
17
2024
Today Virginia basketball and college basketball in general received some news we hoped was much further off. Legendary Virginia Basketball coach Tony Bennett has decided to retire. It will be official tomorrow. What a career it’s been for Tony Bennett 👏 433 career wins 2x Naismith Coach of the Year 4x ACC Coach of the …
Jun
16
2024
Looking for a bit of summer reading on basketball? Well it’s not quite summer yet, but we’re close. Isaac Trotter of CBS Sports has released his ACC Basketball Power Rankings. Louisville has been arguably the worst P6, now P5 basketball school in the country, and now sits 4th. Virginia 8th? Hmm that’s some motivation for …
Jun
12
2024
Here we go the ACC SEC Challenge! Oh, this should be good. ESPN announces matchups for the second annual SEC/ACC Men’s Basketball Challenge 🏀 December 3-4 🏀 Platforms & commentators to be announced later this year More: https://t.co/SxGlTb1vyW | #NCAAMBB pic.twitter.com/YYTCTmecuf — ESPN PR (@ESPNPR) June 12, 2024 ESPN announces matchups for the second annual …
May
18
2024
The Big 10 and SEC continue to try and relegate the rest of the college athletics world into irrelevance. Their TV contracts are the biggest. They’ll get the biggest payouts from the College Football Playoff, and gradually they are gobbling up the biggest brands. What can you say? To the winner go the spoils. We’re …
May
10
2024
I felt like Brad Brownell was a lock to return as Clemson basketball head coach if he made the NCAA tournament. Others weren’t so sure and said he needed a NCAA tournament run. Well Clemson tied their best performance in the NCAA tournament with an appearance in the Elite 8. Brad Brownell without question was …
Apr
11
2024
We have finished the college basketball season, and it’s time to take a look at how the ACC Hotseat finished. We go from coldest to hottest. 0 – Ice Cold Seat 1 – Still cool 2 – There’s smoke 3 – Getting Warm 4 – On Fire 5 – Start working on the resume Pat …
Apr
10
2024
The college basketball season just ended with UConn as this year’s national champion. We’re already to look ahead at those Way Too Early College Basketball Top 25 rankings. https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2024-04-10/way-too-early-2024-25-mens-basketball-power-36-rankings https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39895473/mens-college-basketball-way-too-early-top-25-rankings-2024-25-season https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/college-basketball-rankings-houston-north-carolina-lead-way-too-early-top-25-and-1-for-2024-25-season/ https://247sports.com/longformarticle/college-basketballs-way-too-early-top-25-odds-for-2024-25-march-madness-kansas-unc-duke-cooper-flagg-alabama-nate-oats-230149733/#2403011 https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2024/04/09/college-basketball-too-early-top-25-rankings/73246905007/ https://sports.yahoo.com/2024-25-mens-college-basketball-way-too-early-top-25-duke-purdue-and-uconn-start-out-in-front-051242534.html https://www.foxsports.com/stories/college-basketball/college-basketball-rankings-way-too-early-top-25-for-the-2024-25-season Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page
Apr
09
2024
The Final AP and USA Today Polls for men’s basketball were released today. The ACC did quite well. North Carolina AP 7 Coaches 6 Duke AP 9 Coaches 9 NC State AP 10 Coaches 13 Clemson AP 14 Coaches 15 No other conference had as many. After a sterling tournament that saw the conference have …
Apr
08
2024
UCONN GOES BACK-TO-BACK‼️ The Huskies are the first team to win consecutive national championships since 2006-07 🔥 pic.twitter.com/RwmsmeBFuy — ESPN (@espn) April 9, 2024 I have a ton of respect for Connecticut men’s basketball. They just cruised to another national title, and if you pay attention to college basketball you could see it coming. We …