Apr
08
2014
Monday night the Connecticut Huskies men’s basketball team won their 4th national championship since 1999. That’s more national titles than the Big 10 conference has won in the 4 biggest collegiate sports – Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball, Football, and Baseball combined. There was the 2002 National Title in Football for Ohio State, and the 2000 …
Apr
04
2014
Three struggling ACC basketball programs hired new basketball coaches in the last few weeks. Virginia Tech, Wake Forest, and Boston College are looking to turn things around. Does it look like they did? Let’s go through each one… Virginia Tech – Buzz Williams Let me just come out and say it right off, I love …
Apr
03
2014
My podcast co-host @HokieSmash and I @TalkinACCSports had plenty of ground to cover this week in the ACC. Boston College just made a new coaching hire, and Boston College blogger @SoaringtoGlory joined us on the podcast to discuss it. We appreciate @SoaringtoGlory coming on such short notice. To download the audio file of this podcast, please go here. You can also find …
Apr
01
2014
Short post for tonight, but here’s something interesting from CBSSportsLine. It is a document detailing NCAA rules the Power 5 conferences would like to see changed or amended. When I read this, I thought these actually seem like reasonable requests. I would recommend taking a look at the proposals. It’s a good read. I don’t …
Mar
31
2014
Count me in the camp that says making NCAA tournament is better than anything that can in the NIT tournament. You can also count me in the camp that say the NIT is still a very meaningful tournament and can lead to bigger things in the future. In 2006 the NIT had their selection process …
Mar
30
2014
I wish I could say I knew this would be the Final 4, but if you looked at any of my brackets you’d know only Florida was a team that I had penciled in the Final 4. In my office pool nobody got more than 2 teams in the Final 4, Florida and the couple …
Mar
30
2014
It is Sunday, so you know it is once again time for another episode of “Pushing the Envelope”. As I have said before the podcast will air each and every Sunday on CLNSRadio, and can also be heard by going to BlogTalkRadio starting at 10:00 a.m. EST. And if you can not catch the show …
Mar
29
2014
A largely miserable NCAA tournament for the ACC came to an end Friday evening when Michigan St. defeated Virginia in the Sweet 16. I hesitate to lump Virginia with the rest of the ACC’s first weekend failures. The Cavaliers in my mind are a top 5 team, that ran into a Spartans team that is …
Mar
27
2014
My podcast co-host @HokieSmash and I @TalkinACCSports have one of our favorite guests backs on the podcast. Former Virginia Tech basketball manager Jerran Anderson @HereGoJayAgain joins us to talk about the latest happenings in ACC Basketball. To download the audio file of this podcast, please go here. You can also find this most recent podcast and all our other podcasts …
Mar
26
2014
Anyone that follows sports has heard what Mark Cuban, owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, believe will happen to the National Football League in the next decade. Here you can read how he went on to explain more about his theory, but the main focus of the discussion on sports programs has been this… “I …
Mar
24
2014
The Sweet 16 starts Thursday, and if it’s as good as the first three rounds of the NCAA’s we are in for a whale of a Sweet 16 and Elite 8… Let’s ranks the teams from 1-16. 1) Arizona Arguably the best defensive team in the country, and they can get scoring from multiple positions. …
Mar
23
2014
Twitter is a great thing, because you can get a feel for how fans feels about things. Surprisingly a sizeable number think that the results of the NCAA don’t reveal much if anything about the conferences the teams come from. The sample size is too small they say… This makes no sense to me. The …
Mar
23
2014
It is Sunday, so you know it is once again time for another episode of “Pushing the Envelope”. As I have said before the podcast will air each and every Sunday on CLNSRadio, and can also be heard by going to BlogTalkRadio starting at 10:00 a.m. EST. And if you can not catch the show …
Mar
23
2014
The ACC entered the NCAA tournament with 6 teams, 3 top 3 seeds, and 4 teams ranked in the top 25. Before the first weekend of the NCAAs is over, the ACC is already down to two teams Virginia and North Carolina who play Sunday. Pittsburgh and NC State can be forgiven somewhat. The Panthers …
Mar
21
2014
The Round of 64, or the real first round, began yesterday, with the Atlantic Coast Conference having thee programs playing. Of those a pair, newly arrived Syracuse and Pittsburgh, routed their opponent, while the third one, N.C. State, was doing the same and then let St. Louis back into the game and lost by three …
Mar
20
2014
The Round of 64, or the real first round, is upon us and that means it’s time to check out what the Atlantic Coast Conference teams are going to do. In all there are three games from the conference, beginning with Pittsburgh, then Syracuse and finally N.C. State. Two out of three of the games …