Dec
21
2022
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) sports fans. The Hokies are now 0-4 in the Mike Young era vs. Boston College. I blogged about this very issue last week. I mentioned that for growth, Virginia Tech needed to defeat Boston College, a team they were 0-3 against in the Mike Young era. After my …
Dec
20
2022
Is Miami ready to make itself a contender in the ACC? Miami is a definite NCAA team at 11-1. Their guard play is excellent, but this week we find out if they can be a true contender in the ACC. They get a Virginia team with an impressive resume, but that has regressed a little …
Dec
18
2022
We’ve just started to get into conference season in ACC Basketball. How are those hot seat ranking looking? We go from the 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 Jon Scheyer, …
Dec
17
2022
North Carolina came into the season ranked #1, and subsequently became the fastest team to go from #1 to unranked after starting the year 5-4. It’s not that North Carolina didn’t look like a good team. At times they did look like a pre-season #1 team. They have a 16-point win against 10-1 College of …
Dec
16
2022
Just a short post for tonight, but here is a little bulletin board material for Tony Bennett and Virginia. Every CBS Sports basketball media member picked against Virginia in their game with Houston. It didn’t matter if it was the spread or straight up. We will see what Reece Beekman’s health is, but that is …
Dec
15
2022
Does North Carolina start turning the corner this week? North Carolina has been the nation’s most disappointing team. From #1 to unranked in record time. The Tar Heels have lost to every decent team they’ve played save a win over the rising College of Charleston. This is a talented team, that hasn’t found itself. They …
Dec
13
2022
ACC Team of the Week : Virginia Tech – for 2-0 record beating Dayton and Oklahoma State. NET Rankings are from – https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2022/net 15. Louisville (0-9) NET Ranking 360 Last Week: 15 If Louisville doesn’t beat Florida A&M, just cancel the season. 14. Florida State (2-9, 1-1) NET Ranking 280 Last Week: 14 The Noles are not …
Dec
11
2022
It’s an unbalanced conference this year in ACC basketball. Virginia is likely to be ranked #1 this week and the conference has two top 15 NET teams, Virginia and Duke. They also have two at 250+ Florida State and Louisville. There are several ACC teams trying to build cases as fellow top 25 caliber teams …
Dec
10
2022
After Louisville got blown out at previously 1-9 Florida State 75-53 to drop to 0-9, I started to wonder is Louisville on its way to being worst ACC team in the last quarter century? Now there is still 2/3 of the season left, so we’ll have to see how the Cards do during conference play, …
Dec
06
2022
ACC Team of the Week : Pittsburgh – for 2-0 record winning at Northwestern and NC State NET Rankings are from – https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2022/net 15. Louisville (0-8) NET Ranking 361 Last Week: 15 Could Louisville be the worst ACC team we’ve seen this century? There are TWO teams with a worse NET ranking. TWO! 14. Florida State (1-9, …
Dec
01
2022
It’s only December, but fair or not resumes for the NCAA Tournament are built during the OOC portion of the schedule in November and December. Don’t think so? Why do you think the ACC only got 5 bids last year, with Notre Dame barely making the field and the only team higher than an 8 …
Nov
28
2022
ACC Team of the Week : NC State – for 2-1 record at Battle of Atlantis (Wins Dayton and Butler) NET rankings and NCAA Projections will be added in future polls. 15. Louisville (0-6) Last Week: 15 Mark your calendars for December 10 when Louisville plays Florida State. 14. Florida State (1-7) Last Week: 14 I …
Nov
20
2022
ACC Team of the Week : Virginia – for beating top 20 teams Baylor and Illinois. NET rankings and NCAA Projections will be added in future polls. 15. Louisville (0-3) Last Week: n/a Bellarmine, Wright State, and App State have wins over Louisville. The Cards are just terrible and could start the year 0-8, or 1-7. …
Nov
18
2022
This will be a short post this evening. The University of Virginia has had the toughest of weeks due to the recent tragic events with their football team. The Virginia men’s basketball provided a little joy in a dark dark week for at least a couple of hours. Tony Bennett reminded why he’s one of …
Nov
17
2022
The tragic events at UVa saddened us all. You can do something about it by supporting the families of the victims at their Go Fund Me pages found at StreakingtheLawn. ACCPerscription posts what if the ACC and Pac 12 really did partner? What would that look like? What is ShakintheSouthLand take on Clemson the last …
Nov
14
2022
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) get you ready for the ACC Basketball with Tristan Freeman @hoopsnut351. Tristan was excellent and I’m so ready for basketball season now. Check out Tristan’s work at https://bustingbrackets.com/author/tfreeman1/. To find old podcasts prior to episode 385, you can follow this link -> https://www.talkshoe.com/show/the-acc-weekly-podcast In this order, these are topics we covered on …