Mar
09
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Frankie Valli had The Four Seasons. Tony Bennett – the Virginia men’s basketball coach, not the iconic singer – has The Six Seasons. Go back six seasons ago. Go back to November of 2013 and the start of the 2013-2014 college basketball season. …
Mar
09
2019
Something occurred to me watching Virginia’s 73-68 victory over Louisville today. In a well played highly competitive game where Virginia did just enough to win, I think we are seeing the beginning of what will be the ACC’s next great coaching rivalry. The ACC was built on great coaching rivalries – Mike Krzyzewski vs …
Mar
09
2019
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Luke Maye grew up a North Carolina fan. Both his parents are UNC graduates, including his father Mark having played quarterback for the Tar Heels’ football team from 1984 to 1987. But when he grew into a 6-foot-8, 225-pound power forward at Cornelius Hough High near Charlotte and developed into an …
Mar
09
2019
Remember when Will Wade was one of the hottest names in coaching? He was a former Grad Assistant at Clemson, and in 2017 his name was circulated as a candidate to replace Brad Brownell. His name was also tossed around in Raleigh as possibility before Kevin Keatts was hired. Now according to a Yahoo Sports …
Mar
08
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. After North Carolina State lost to Georgia Tech on Wednesday night to throw itself squarely on the bubble, I wrote about the ACC Tournament situation facing the Wolfpack and fellow bubble-hugger Clemson. The Wolfpack and the Tigers live in a climate of constraints. …
Mar
07
2019
BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Chris Clemons arrived at Campbell University in this Mayberry-like North Carolina town as a little-known recruit that major conference coaches overlooked, fearing his 5-foot-9 height didn’t measure up. Now, four prolific scoring seasons later at the Big South Conference member school, he continues to leave footprints on the NCAA career scoring …
Mar
07
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The North Carolina State Wolfpack made March more interesting in the ACC… but not in a remotely good way. The first rule of Fight Club for college basketball bubble teams is to not do anything really stupid. Losing at home to Georgia Tech …
Mar
06
2019
Good evening, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) fans. From time to time, I step out of my ACC coverage – and blog about Georgetown men’s basketball (I’m a Georgetown alumnus). This a gonna be a pretty quick post – a lightening around of quick bullet points). Here we go: Coming into the game tonight, our …
Mar
06
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Fans of the Virginia Tech Hokies talked about it all season: “We could get a double-bye in the ACC Tournament.” It was a big deal. It deserved to be. The ACC Tournament is the Cadillac of conference tournaments. It is the most prestigious, …
Mar
04
2019
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) look at the year ending ACC basketball awards with some great guests @ItsMe_Teezy and @RBrentBlevins. We appreciate them taking time to join us. You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts on ITUNES at 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 …
Mar
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 …
Mar
03
2019
College basketball teams with national title aspirations this time of year are balancing health with not disrupting a cohesive unit that can make a run through March Madness. In the ACC, the top three contenders are North Carolina and Virginia, tied for first in the regular-season standings, and Duke, one game back. For Duke, projected …
Mar
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 : Can the ACC get three No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament? The short answer: Yes, it can. The other short answer: It can, but it probably won’t. The slightly longer answer: It probably won’t, but it’s still …
Mar
02
2019
Each NCAA Tournament isn’t entirely new. Once in a great while, North Carolina or Kentucky might fall to the NIT, but only once in a while, and when that happens, plenty of other blue-blood schools take part in America’s biggest Dance. Each NCAA Tournament does involve a lot of familiar faces. No one is making …
Mar
02
2019
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — North Carolina appears to have benefitted from an NBA-like trade as March Madness approaches. Nassir Little’s talent and late-season improvement are that intriguing to consider down the stretch. Think of it this way: There are no trades in college sports, of course, but North Carolina has added an NBA talent – …
Feb
28
2019
One month ago we asked @MattZemek if Louisville’s Chris Mack was the early front-runner for ACC COY. At the time he was, and it was wasn’t close. Mack had taken a Louisville team predicted to finish 11th in the ACC, and scored wins over Michigan State, at North Carolina, and at Virginia Tech. If you told a …