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
21
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Other than the inability to bother the Minnesota Golden Gophers, the Louisville Cardinals were just fine in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday in Des Moines. Other than the inability to force turnovers or rebound or execute various defenses, the …
Feb
13
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. This story on the Louisville Cardinals’ collapse against the Duke Blue Devils begins in a soup kitchen. For 10 years as a once-a-week volunteer and then for four years as a five-day-a-week assistant manager, I spent time at a Catholic Seattle soup kitchen. …
Feb
10
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Assessing coaches is one of the toughest things to do in college sports. Naturally, there are and will be plenty of situations in which it becomes very easy to evaluate a coach — Kevin Stallings at Pittsburgh as a portrait of failure, Mike …