Apr
04
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. This installment of All Sports Discussion’s coverage of the Virginia Cavaliers at the 2019 Final Four deals with a “quiet” fact, the kind of fact which is easy to miss in the larger celebration of the Hoos’ return to college basketball’s biggest stage. …
Apr
04
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The Virginia Cavaliers have reached college basketball’s Holy Grail once again. For the first time since 1984, the Hoos are the Who’s Who of their sport. They will try to reach their first national championship game when they face the Auburn Tigers in …
Mar
31
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. The bottom-line reality — that the Virginia Cavaliers won and crossed the finish line, finally returning to the Final Four for the first time since 1984 — mattered more than almost anything else for the Hoos, coach Tony Bennett, and their fans on …
Mar
29
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. For nearly a full year, the Virginia Cavaliers had to think about the first game they would play in the NCAA Tournament. UMBC. UMBC. UMBC. That was the only thing the national media and a lot of outside observers associated with the Cavaliers. …
Mar
24
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 : How many ACC teams will make the Final Four? In ACC country, the Final Four is serious business at Duke, North Carolina and Virginia. It would be a dream come true for Florida State and Virginia Tech. …
Mar
23
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Oxygen. We need it to live. The Virginia Cavaliers didn’t seem to be taking in much oxygen in the first 25 minutes of their NCAA Tournament first-round game against Gardner-Webb on Friday in Columbia, South Carolina. The Cavaliers took the memories of …
Mar
17
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 : Who should be the NCAA Tournament’s No. 1 overall seed — Duke, Virginia, or another team? I will keep this very short and simple, since we will be reviewing brackets on Sunday night and will have much more …
Mar
15
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Here we go. The Virginia Cavaliers ran into a team with length, power and athleticism. The Hoos didn’t have answers against Florida State on Friday night in the first of two ACC Tournament semifinals. Plenty of people will look at how Florida State …
Mar
15
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. In these days before Selection Sunday, you will hear talk about seeds and regions, and to be sure, they do contain a certain amount of value. However, the ultimately important detail about the NCAA Tournament — the one which transcends the seeds and …
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
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 …
Feb
18
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. Some of you might know that at my other Twitter account, @mzemek, I cover professional tennis for Tennis With An Accent, found at tennisaccent.com. Our story on the Virginia Cavaliers’ 64-58 win over the Virginia Tech Hokies on Monday night in Blacksburg begins …
Feb
11
2019
Give @MattZemek a twitter follow and check out his musings on college sports at https://www.patreon.com/Zemek. One day you’re the insect, the next day you’re the windshield. Such is life itself, and ACC basketball is part of the grand theater of this always-fascinating human existence. Just ask the Virginia Cavaliers, who have lived on both sides of life’s divide …
Feb
09
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 : What did we learn from the Duke-Virginia rematch? Good questions generally require complex answers, and I have had to answer a lot of good questions over the past several months in both football and basketball. This week’s …