Why the Chris Mack hire didn’t work out at Louisville is simply stunning. Mack spent nine years at Xavier, and won nearly 70% of his games. Even after Xavier moved from the Atlantic 10 to the Big East he kept winning. He made the NCAA Tournament 8 out of 9 years with an Elite 8 …
Category Archive: College Basketball
Jan
25
2022
Jan
24
2022
Podcast – @Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports talk the week in ACC Basketball
Please Check Out our Podcast Sponsor – Main Street Pharmacy @Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) take you through ACC basketball this week! 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 the podcast. It’s episode 398 We tell you about ourselves Most …
Jan
23
2022
NCAA Bracket Projections (Men’s and Women’s) for January 23, 2022
Do you realize selection Sunday is less than 2 months away? ACC teams had it rough in the non-conference portion of the season, and how has it affected the early projections? It’s never too early look, but hard to see the ACC getting more than 6 bids, and more likely 4 or 5. Here comes …
Jan
22
2022
Florida State twitter reacts to regular season sweep of Miami.
Here come the Noles. In a week that saw them beat Duke and win at Miami, Leonard Hamilton is getting his team right for the stretch run prior to March. You don’t want any part of FSU right now. The lead nearly got away at Miami, but they won the game and that’s all that …
Jan
20
2022
ACC Basketball Mid-Season Awards and All-ACC Teams
@HokieSmash_ASD Midseason ACC Coach of the Year Jim Larranaga – Miami All-ACC First Team Isaiah Wong – Miami – Guard Dereon Seabron – NC State – Guard Armondo Bacot – North Carolina – Forward/Center Allondes Williams – Wake Forest – Guard Paolo Banchero – Duke – Forward All-ACC Second Team Keve Aluma – Virginia Tech …
Jan
18
2022
ACC Basketball Power Rankings January 18, 2022
NET Rankings are from – https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2022/net 15. Georgia Tech (7-9, 1-5) NET Ranking 153 Last Week : 14 Congrats to Josh Pastner for guiding Georgia Tech to the bottom of the ACC, less than a year after winning the ACC. Life comes at you fast. 14. Boston College (7-8, 2-3) NET Ranking 159 Last week: 15 …
Jan
17
2022
Podcast – @Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports talk ACC Basketball with @hoopsnut351
Please Check Out our Podcast Sponsor – Main Street Pharmacy @Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) are back for the New Year as the ACC Weekly Podcast gets back in gear. We have a great guest Tristan Freeman @hoopsnut351 – College Basketball Site Expert for @FanSided‘s @BustingBrackets. To find old podcasts prior to episode 385, you can follow …
Jan
16
2022
Louisville may have missed with their two “on paper” great coaching hires.
Louisville is in uncharted territory. I’m drawing a blank of the last time an ACC school looked to have made 2 universally praised hires with their men’s basketball and football team, and saw them so questioned several years later. In 2018 the men’s basketball team hired Xavier’s Chris Mack, and the football program hired Scott …
Jan
16
2022
NCAA Bracket Projections (Men’s and Women’s) for January 16, 2022
Do you realize selection Sunday is barely two months away? ACC teams had it rough in the non-conference portion of the season, and how has it affected the early projections? It’s never too early look, but hard to see the ACC getting more than 6 bids, and more likely 4 or 5. Things look much …
Jan
14
2022
Duke’s coaching-staff-in-waiting picks up early first win
Duke’s coaches enjoyed more than one celebration following Wednesday’s bounce-back win over Wake Forest in Winston-Salem. First, there was the post-game celebration. The Blue Devils won 76-64. That was routine for a blue-blood program that this season is ranked No. 8 in the nation with a 13-2 record overall and 3-1 in the ACC. The …
Jan
12
2022
Way Too Early 2022 College Football Top 25 rankings (Links)
It’s January so we have to check on the Way Too Early top 25 rankings. I’ve never had a problem with these coming out early. They are fun to read through, and they create some off-season debate. The ACC is pretty well represented with 3 or 4 teams in each of these polls. https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32999406/the-2022-way-too-early-college-football-top-25 https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-rankings-alabama-ohio-state-lead-way-too-early-top-25-ahead-of-2022-season/ …
Jan
11
2022
ACC Basketball Power Rankings January 11, 2022
NET Rankings are from – https://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2022/net 15. Boston College (6-7, 1-2) NET Ranking 186 Last week: 14 Boston College gets their chance to put Georgia Tech in this spot if they beat them this week. 14. Georgia Tech (6-8, 0-4) NET Ranking 167 Last Week : 13 I suggest Georgia Tech fans watch the Yellow …
Jan
10
2022
Podcast – @Hokiesmash_ASD and @TalkinACCSports talk ACC Basketball with @TimThomasTLP
Please Check Out our Podcast Sponsor – Main Street Pharmacy @Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) are back for the New Year as the ACC Weekly Podcast gets back in gear. It’s a great start as @TimThomasTLP of the fine Virginia Tech blog techlunchpail.com joins to talk ACC Basketball and Virginia Tech. To find old podcasts prior to …
Jan
09
2022
Miami twitter reacts to stunning upset of Duke
No one is going to argue that ACC basketball is down. We’ve been waiting for a team to stand up look like a real bonafide NCAA tournament team. We saw that Saturday in an ACC basketball game that is going to be hard to top the rest of the year in the conference. The Miami …
Jan
09
2022
NCAA Bracket Projections (Men’s and Women’s) for January 9, 2022
Do you realize selection Sunday is barely two months away? ACC teams had it rough in the non-conference portion of the season, and how has it affected the early projections? It’s never too early look, but hard to see the ACC getting more than 6 bids, and more likely 4 or 5. Things look much …
Jan
08
2022
Georgia Tech currently has the worst football and men’s basketball combo in the ACC.
A few days ago we wrote how Wake Forest could have the ACC COY in football and men’s basketball. Well, there is always the other end of the spectrum. In 2021-2022 that end of the spectrum resides in Atlanta, Georgia. The failures of Geoff Collin’s 3-year tenure are well documented at Georgia Tech. At the …