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 …
Feb
29
2020
Brad Brownell seems to have hotseat questions nearly every season at some point. At the beginning of season when Clemson had dropped 6 of 7 games, those questions started again. It’s safe to say after wins over Duke, Louisville, and Florida State the last few weeks, Brownell will be back for 2021. In fact there …
Feb
28
2020
Just a short post for tonight… The ACC and ESPN Released the ACC Spring Game schedule and where you can watch it. It’s good to see so many Spring Games being televised by the ACC Network. Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at @AllSportsDACC and please like our Facebook Page
Feb
27
2020
For Current RPI Rankings and Quadrant Wins http://www.warrennolan.com/basketball/2020/rpi-live This where I see each ACC teams’ NCAA Chances. On Sundays we post Bracket Projections from several sports sites. 1. Florida State (24-4, 14-3) Projected NCAA Seed 1 I”d make the Noles a #1 seed. They can win the national championship. 2. Louisville (23-6, 14-4) Projected NCAA Seed …