Oct
20
2019
CHARLOTTE – Virginia, always on the lookout for the “hidden gems” coach Tony Bennett seeks to develop as a means to challenge the 5- and 4-star Duke and North Carolina recruits, has a possible Twin Tower pairing from North Carolina high schools. Jay Huff is a 7-foot-1, 243-pound redshirt junior from Durham’s Voyager Academy. Huff …
Oct
14
2019
CHARLOTTE – As North Carolina took its turn on stage at the ACC basketball media day, the dominant subject was the Tar Heels blending their new roster. They have an influx of newcomers following the loss of four starters and six players in all. Roy Williams, with seniors Garrison Brooks and Brandon Robinson accompanying him, …
Oct
08
2019
CHARLOTTE — What a difference a year makes in college basketball and there is no better example these days than Virginia coach Tony Bennett and his team. The Cavaliers showed up for this year’s ACC Operation Basketball media day on Tuesday in Charlotte as NCAA defending champions. If anyone forgot, the ACC office was proud …
Aug
10
2019
Times don’t always change for the better. Fifty-three years ago, when Jim Crow still plagued the old South, the city of Fayetteville, N.C., demonstrated it was ahead of the times down the slow, painful march to the new South. The segregated city gave a parade and key to the city to Jimmy Raye, an African-American. …
Jul
30
2019
Syracuse quarterback Tommy DeVito has a lot of people talking in the college football world this offseason, some even going as far as naming him a Heisman Trophy dark horse candidate. DeVito has a tough act to follow with the departure of Eric Dungey, but he appears to be up to the task and has …
Jul
29
2019
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) haven’t forgot about basketball. We go ahead and get ready for ACC basketball which is just 3 months away. We were joined by (Mychal Hunter) @ACCBR1 of ACCBasketballReport.com. Please check that out! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/rwradios-acc-weekly-podcast/id831843856?t=2. We are also now available on Stitcher! http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/httpwwwtalkshoecomtalkshoewebtalkcastjspmasterid130024cmdtc/the-acc-weekly-podcast?refid=stpr0 We are also now available on PodBean! https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/p573j-6e69d/The-ACC-Weekly-Podcast To listen …
Jul
05
2019
To Kevin Warren: Welcome to the Big Ten Conference. Congratulations on being named the historic league’s next commissioner, succeeding Jim Delaney. Welcome to the Conference of Pioneers. Hey, if Bill Walton can call the Pac-12 the Conference of Champions, well, Big Ten fans certainly own the right to label the Big Ten the Conference of …
Jun
03
2019
The NBA early entry withdrawal deadline spawned a spate of stories projecting college teams as winners and losers. They were based on players staying in school and those gone to the NBA – actually, overseas or to the G-League for most of them. Those evaluations were a little late. The most important of these stories …
Jun
02
2019
Good morning. Site friend, @CardinalBig, asked us to rank #ACC Men’s Basketball for 2019-2020. Here you go: I’ve only got one. Rank your projected finish in ACC men’s basketball in conference this coming year. — BigCardinalFan (@CardinalBig) June 1, 2019 *Manning, Pastner, Brownell, and Christian are not the answers * 15.) WFU 14.) GT …
May
17
2019
Not all parents of elite athletes are nuts. We’re reminded of that with comments from Zion Williamson’s step-father, Lee Anderson. Following rapid speculation that Duke’s “Zeus of College Basketball” season will look for a way out of playing for the New Orleans Pelicans, the NBA team that won the lottery for the No. 1 draft …
May
05
2019
In the times we live in with the one-and-done rule being imposed by the NBA (remember it is an NBA rule that has been negotiated with the NBAPA). This year’s Final Four has shown that there are numerous ways to build a winner in college basketball. There does not seem to be just one way …
May
01
2019
Sportswriters are both romantics and cynics. That’s why Inspector Renault, a cynical character in Casablanca, a romantic movie, so often appears in sports stories. The latest example of Inspector Renault declaring he’s “shocked, shocked,” results from Christian Dawkins testifying in the FBI’s college basketball federal corruption case. He was answering questions on Wednesday in New …
Apr
21
2019
Cassius Winston’s legacy stock is up. Way up. His NBA prospects determine future financial stocks, but his pro career can only enhance his Michigan State legacy. That was secured once he announced on Friday his senior year return for another NCAA title shot. He has a chance to join a pantheon of Magic, Mateen and …
Apr
15
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of the WEEK : Is Virginia now a basketball blue-blood? I wrote about the revocation of blue-blood status last week at College Basketball Today, so it is good to visit the other side of this topic: When does a blue-blood get …
Apr
12
2019
The paint has barely dried on Virginia’s 2019 national title and we are already getting those Way Too Early Pre-Season Basketball rankings for the 2019-2020 season. Sure these rankings won’t matter much, with transfers and early entrys, but they make for fun off-season conversation. Here’s a sampling of some of those rankings. USAToday Way Too …
Apr
11
2019
We have an update to our national championship tracker after Virginia’s recent men’s basketball title. With Notre Dame’s title last year in Women’s Basketball, the ACC became the only conference with national titles all 4 major sports (Football, Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball, and Baseball) since 2013. That’s a significant accomplishment for a conference that won …