Apr
04
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The Virginia Cavaliers — players, coaches, trainers, support staff — are necessarily and completely focused on the Final Four in Minneapolis. They should be. Why would they not be? It’s all business for a team in search of making more history and redefining …
Apr
04
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. This installment of All Sports Discussion’s coverage of the Virginia Cavaliers at the 2019 Final Four deals with a “quiet” fact, the kind of fact which is easy to miss in the larger celebration of the Hoos’ return to college basketball’s biggest stage. …
Apr
04
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. This story about Duke and North Carolina at the 2019 Final Four begins with a tennis connection. I cover tennis at another Twitter account — @mzemek — and at a site called Tennis With An Accent, which you can follow at @accent_tennis during …
Apr
04
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Bracket nerds and college basketball historians — from Jim Nantz to your nextdoor neighbor — pay attention to these things. The Duke Blue Devils have repeated their national championship journeys over the years, and anyone who follows Duke closely knows this. In 1992, …
Apr
04
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The Virginia Cavaliers have reached college basketball’s Holy Grail once again. For the first time since 1984, the Hoos are the Who’s Who of their sport. They will try to reach their first national championship game when they face the Auburn Tigers in …
Apr
03
2019
Buzz Williams is on his way to Texas A&M. There’s no way to sugar coat it. That’s a big loss for the Virginia Tech basketball program. When Buzz Williams was hired, we said it was a good to great hire. We told you that back in 2014. Williams won’t be overwhelmed competing against the like …
Apr
03
2019
Tobacco is no longer North Carolina’s economic engine, Tobacco Road as an old label for college basketball in the state and Lipscomp University is located in Nashville, Tenn. But there is still a reverse Tobacco Road trip for the Bison to complete. Lipscomb, which won three NIT rounds at North Carolina opponents to earn the …
Apr
02
2019
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) preview a couple of big sporting events this weekend the Frozen and Final Fours with a couple of our favorite frequent guests @JoeMicik of the @thebracketyard and @WillsWorldMN of accnation.net. Please check their sites out! You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts on ITUNES at …
Apr
01
2019
A Michigan State fifth-year senior and an Auburn junior slew a pair of NBA Combine team dragons, leaving Duke and Kentucky short of an NCAA title – not to mention a Final Four – a fourth straight year. Experience still matters most in college basketball. Michigan State’s Kenny Goins and Auburn’s Jared Harper along with …
Mar
31
2019
Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski is arguably the 2nd best coach in the history of college basketball. Sorry John Wooden will always be number one. Krzyzewski is the winningest men’s college basketball coach in history. His legacy as an All-Time great coach is cemented. That said since 2010, Mike Krzyzewski has become more John Calipari than John …
Mar
31
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The bottom-line reality — that the Virginia Cavaliers won and crossed the finish line, finally returning to the Final Four for the first time since 1984 — mattered more than almost anything else for the Hoos, coach Tony Bennett, and their fans on …
Mar
31
2019
Did I not tell you Virginia fans that you were headed to Final 4 on Tuesday? Were you worried? OK I also said Carson Edwards wouldn’t score 42 points again and he did. Hats off to that young man as he channeled Seth Curry and Randolph Childress in an at times unconscious offensive performance. It …
Mar
30
2019
Excerpts taken from Raye of Light, Chapter 10: The Missing Heisman. By Tom Shanahan Michigan State football legend George Webster was Zion Williamson before Zion Williamson was Duke’s basketball wunderkind. Their stories are a comparison of two South Carolina giants and how America has changed between their generations. What better time to highlight the late …
Mar
30
2019
My buddy and podcast partner @Hokiesmash_ASD got to, in person, see his Hokies in Washington DC give the Duke Blue Devils everything they wanted in more in a 75-73 Sweet 16 loss. It was definitely one of the best games of the tournament, and unfortunately for Virginia Tech they came up a bit short. It …
Mar
29
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. I wrote earlier this season at All Sports Discussion that if North Carolina was going to do big things in the NCAA Tournament, the young pups — Coby White and Nassir Little — would have to become the big dogs on the Tar …
Mar
29
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. For nearly a full year, the Virginia Cavaliers had to think about the first game they would play in the NCAA Tournament. UMBC. UMBC. UMBC. That was the only thing the national media and a lot of outside observers associated with the Cavaliers. …