#StayHealthy and practice social distancing Do you realize selection Sunday is only a couple of months away? Here’s is a selection of Men’s and Women’s NCAA Bracket Projections for 2020. Men http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/bracketology/ https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-tournament/bracketology/detail/ Women http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/bracketology Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page 

Wendell Moore didn’t shrink from the challenges – emphasis on plural. Moore snapped a season-long drought when the sophomore scored 25 points to lead the Blue Devils past Boston College 83-82 on Wednesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The 6-foot-5 guard/forward had scored only 19 points in the season’s first five games, a slump that …

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Ohio State entered 2020 as one of two schools out of 127 in the Football Bowl Subdivision with a chance to defeat Alabama’s national all-star team. Two was fewer than three other schools in the College Football Playoff. The other one with a chance was Clemson, but Alabama doesn’t have to worry about the Tigers, …

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#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. 15. Boston College (2-7) Last week: 15 You’re going to lose a lot of games when you rank in the 300s on defense. 14. Wake Forest (3-1) Last week: 14 Wake Forest is shorthanded and hasn’t played much. It showed against Georgia Tech. 13. Miami (4-4) Last week: 13 Miami …

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#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. 15. Boston College (1-5) Last week: 15 Boston College is one of the worst defensive teams in college basketball. BC really needs to move on from Jim Christian. 14. Wake Forest (2-0) Last week: 11 Wake Forest hasn’t done anything wrong, but it’s hard not to move teams past them …

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Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said college basketball needs to reassess its ongoing approach to the season while COVID-19 outbreaks are rising within the sport and throughout the country. Krzyzewski spoke after the No. 10-ranked Blue Devils (2-2) lost 83-68 loss to No. 6 Illinois (4-1) on Tuesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. He pointed out …

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Time moves quickly in modern college basketball, especially in the era of NBA one-and-dones. Or in the case of Tre Jones, two-and-done. A year ago, Jordan Goldwire was the inexperienced guard without a career start learning to complement Jones, the returning starting point guard. They grew into a good fit. The lightly recruited 6-foot-2, 184-pounder …

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#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. 15. Boston College (1-3) Last week: 9 Boston gave up over 180 points losses to St. Johns and Florida this past week. 14. Pittsburgh (2-1) Last Week: 14 Pitt has won a couple of games in a row after their season opening loss. Check back if they beat Northwestern and …

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Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski held court encircled by reporters, as usual, at the 2019 ACC media session in Charlotte – back in the pre-pandemic gathering days – when the subject turned to him rather than his team. “I’ve had enough stories written about me,” he said politely. “If I never had another story written …

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#StayHealthy and practice social distancing. 15. Georgia Tech (0-2) Last Week : N/A Georgia Tech had a disastrous opening week with losses to Mercer and Georgia State. Josh Pastner did as poor a job as any coach in the country preparing his team for COVID world college basketball. 14. Pittsburgh (1-1) Last Week: N/A Somebody …

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Anyone that listens to our ACC podcast with @Hokiesmash_ASD  and myself or reads this blog or follows me on twitter @TalkinACCSports knows I am not a fan of Josh Pastner. As far back as 2016, I was skeptical of the Pastner hire.  From that piece comments from his former Mempis player Shaq Goodwin were a …

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Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo encourages his players to soak up the atmosphere when the Spartans face Duke at venerable Cameron Indoor Stadium, including interacting with students camped out for tickets at Krzyzewskiville. But the sights and sounds will be more like a preseason scrimmage in a high school gym when preseason No. 13-ranked …

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March Madness – in one form or another – is on its way back in 20201 assured Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski in a Wednesday Zoom call. And he likes the team he can put on the floor to chase an ACC title, Final Four and national title. “We have a lot of pieces,” Coach …

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Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski’s reputation has been sticking with the same six to seven players throughout a game and the season. He wasn’t much on going to the bench while advancing to 12 Final Fours and winning five national titles. But last year he was still rotating nine or 10 players into January and …

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