Mar
11
2020
The story of Florida State Leonard Hamilton’s season and career is not yet written. The Noles still have plenty of goals ahead of them. Recently @mattzemek wrote about Hamilton’s place among all-time ACC Coaches. Leonard Hamilton just became a 3-Time ACC COY at age 71 Hamilton probably shouldn’t even be the head coach of Florida …
Mar
10
2020
Playing less than hour from their campus against a team Pittsburgh team that hadn’t won a game in over month, Wake Forest looked ready to make some noise in the ACC Tournament. The exact opposite happened as the Deacs were bounced by Pittsburgh becoming the first ACC team eliminated. That is not what the embattled …
Mar
09
2020
We thank @RBrentBlevins for filling in for @Hokiesmash_ASD this week. He joins me (@TalkinACCSports ) as we welcome on Lukas Harkins (you can follow him on twitter at @HardwiredSports). He is a college basketball site expert, writer, and bracketologist for @BustingBrackets (BustingBrackets.com) covering the nation and recruiting. 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 …
Mar
09
2020
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Which ACC basketball teams enter the 2020 ACC Tournament with the most to prove? Which teams — with a bad showing in Greensboro, N.C. — will have the greatest reason to doubt themselves heading into the NCAA Tournament? The answer from this …
Mar
08
2020
Here’s is a selection of Men’s and Women’s NCAA Bracket Projections for 2020 as of March 8, 2020. Men http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/bracketology/ http://realtimerpi.com/bracketology/bracketology_Men.html Women http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/bracketology https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/womens-basketball/bracketology http://realtimerpi.com/bracketology/bracketology_Women.html Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page
Mar
08
2020
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Should Florida State get a 1 seed if it wins the ACC Tournament? Kansas will be the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region on Selection Sunday, which is one week away. Baylor will be the 1 …
Mar
07
2020
Anyone that follow this blog knows the Georgia Tech fan in me doesn’t care for Josh Pastner. My reasons are long and varied. He set expectations early on that it takes years to rebuild a basketball program with the get old stay old mantra. Through good recruiting basketball programs can turn things around in far …
Mar
05
2020
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. If you are at least 40 years old, you very probably remember the 1993 Florida State-Notre Dame football game, one of several “Game of the Century” regular-season mega-events in college football’s 150-year history. The first “Game of the Century” many historians point …
Mar
03
2020
Virginia Tech’s Mike Young was the early leader for ACC COY, but faded. Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski has lost 3 of their last 5 games. The realistic candidates for ACC Coach are Florida State’s Leonard Hamilton, Louisville’s Chris Mack, and newcomer Virginia’s Tony Bennett. It’s probably going to come down to who wins the ACC regular …
Mar
02
2020
DURHAM – Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski still says 20 conference games is two too many, but the increase this season from 18 was necessary to accommodate ESPN launching the ACC Network. His players, though, disagree. They are happy with the expansion, especially with what happened 12 days ago. Duke avenged a 22-point loss to N.C. …
Mar
02
2020
So it’s official, Georgia Tech is dropping the appeal of the postseason ban. Georgia Tech dropping appeal of postseason ban. Story here- more to come.https://t.co/gKALi5GKE6 — Ken Sugiura (@ksugiuraajc) March 2, 2020 While the Jackets are currently playing some of their best basketball of the season, at 15-14 (9-9), an ACC Tournament Title was required …
Mar
02
2020
@Hokiesmash_ASD and I (@TalkinACCSports ) welcome one of our favorite guests @Blacketologist (Jamal Murphy). Check out his work at https://sports.cbslocal.com/tag/jamal-murphy/ among other locations. 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 on PodBean! https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/p573j-6e69d/The-ACC-Weekly-Podcast To listen go here – https://www.talkshoe.com/episode/8528613 In this order, these are topics we covered on …
Mar
01
2020
So here’s the tweet that blew up in Mr. Fetes’s face… This was during the Virginia \ Duke game that the Cavaliers ended up winning. Why would anyone wanna play basketball at Virginia? What’s the pitch? “Hey do you wanna play the most boring style of offense possible and win games in the 50s?” It …
Mar
01
2020
Here’s is a selection of Men’s and Women’s NCAA Bracket Projections for 2020 as of March 1, 2020. Men http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/bracketology https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/bracketology/ http://realtimerpi.com/bracketology/bracketology_Men.html Women http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/bracketology https://www.collegesportsmadness.com/womens-basketball/bracketology http://realtimerpi.com/bracketology/bracketology_Women.html Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page
Mar
01
2020
Give author @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. ACC QUESTION of WEEK : Are the Virginia Cavaliers playing the best basketball in the Atlantic Coast Conference? Before directly answering that question, let’s look at the larger landscape of the league. North Carolina State lost to North Carolina in the past …
Mar
01
2020
Name a pro athlete that collected NFL paychecks for nine years — providing his family a comfortable life — but upon retirement from his playing days returned to his high school alma mater located in an impoverished urban neighborhood. In other words, identify a star athlete that was coddled in college and overpaid as a …