Feb
13
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. This story on the Louisville Cardinals’ collapse against the Duke Blue Devils begins in a soup kitchen. For 10 years as a once-a-week volunteer and then for four years as a five-day-a-week assistant manager, I spent time at a Catholic Seattle soup kitchen. …
Feb
13
2019
There are no more Magic Johnsons in college basketball. That has been my thought the past decade while watching one-and-done college prospects follow each other like lemmings to the same two schools, Duke or Kentucky. Their paths are considered the easiest to an NCAA title, even though Kentucky hasn’t won since 2012 and Duke since …
Feb
12
2019
Who says college basketball only matters in March? This past weekend Duke vs Virginia pulled in the highest TV ratings of any program on cable this past week. Saturday cable ratings: Duke-Virginia takes the win https://t.co/BGgg0UMCXN — TV by the Numbers (@TVbytheNumbers) February 12, 2019 Oh and their previous meeting was the highest rated game of …
Feb
11
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. One day you’re the insect, the next day you’re the windshield. Such is life itself, and ACC basketball is part of the grand theater of this always-fascinating human existence. Just ask the Virginia Cavaliers, who have lived on both sides of life’s divide …
Feb
10
2019
This is going to be a weekly article, where I seed the ACC teams and where I think they’d should be placed if the tournament started the same day as my posting. In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top (50) obviously worth more. Any losses …
Feb
10
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Assessing coaches is one of the toughest things to do in college sports. Naturally, there are and will be plenty of situations in which it becomes very easy to evaluate a coach — Kevin Stallings at Pittsburgh as a portrait of failure, Mike …
Feb
10
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. If you were raised properly, your mama told you to say “please” and “thank you” in various social situations. Instilling good habits and good manners is one of a parent’s many jobs. Conditioning children to express gratitude and appreciation is one of the …
Feb
09
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 : What did we learn from the Duke-Virginia rematch? Good questions generally require complex answers, and I have had to answer a lot of good questions over the past several months in both football and basketball. This week’s …
Feb
09
2019
It’s going to be huge game today when Virginia faces off with Duke. Gameday was there and those clever Virginia fans came up with some great signs. Here’s a sampling if you missed it. Cam Radish was my personal favorite. It’s the UVA fellow with the glasses. ????? pic.twitter.com/BdeaceA1ux — Caroline Darney (@cwdarney) February 9, …
Feb
08
2019
As we move into February begins, the real run for NCAA tournament positioning begins. Teams like Duke and Virginia will be playing for #1 seeds. Louisville, UNC, Virginia Tech, Syracuse and FSU will work on seeding. Clemson and NC State will try to get in to the Big Dance. Wake Forest and Georgia Tech are …
Feb
04
2019
Watch Coby White now that the ACC basketball logjam at the top has been halved to three one-loss teams, Virginia, Duke and North Carolina. In the past week, North Carolina’s maturing freshman has moved ahead a couple chapters in the education of a point guard. You can hear it in his deeper comments and see …
Feb
03
2019
This is going to be a weekly article, where I seed the ACC teams and where I think they’d should be placed if the tournament started the same day as my posting. In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top (50) obviously worth more. Any losses …
Feb
02
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 : So far this year, Is Virginia Tech’s Buzz WIlliams having the best coaching season of his career? When a question begins with the words “so far,” it has to be dealt with on its own terms, not …
Feb
02
2019
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Roy Williams was still coaching at Kansas the first time he saw Julius Peppers in a summer tournament. Upon hearing Peppers was committed to North Carolina he thought the kid was in over his 6-foot-5 height. “The Peach Jam is my favorite tournament of the summer time,” Williams said of the …
Feb
02
2019
NC State has their new Athletic Director, and it’s Boo Corrigan. With Debbie Yow retiring, NC State hired a search firm, to the consternation of Jay Bilas and others, to arrive at Mr. Corrigan. The hire has been lauded around the country, and for the first time NC State doesn’t seem to be absorbing shots …
Jan
27
2019
This is going to be a weekly article, where I seed the ACC teams and where I think they’d should be placed if the tournament started the same day as my posting. In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top (50) obviously worth more. Any losses …