2013 ACC Tournament Bracket

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If you put yourself through the pain of watching Maryland’s implosion at the hands of Virginia and ACC officiating last night then you are probably still as shell-shocked as I. It is unfathomable to conceive that #NCStateShit is such a strong force that it literally extends to when Maryland plays UVA.

Who among us still thinks that Mark Gottfried’s air headed failure to foul the ball at Maryland when State had a foul to give was a lesson in “Genius Coaching 101”?

To win the ACC Tournament, NC State will now have to find a way to navigate four consecutive games with a super thin bench in Greensboro. The good news is that we got about as good of a draw as we could’ve hoped. Good luck to the Pack!

The following bracket can be expanded if you click on it.

2013 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Bracket

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47 Responses to 2013 ACC Tournament Bracket

  1. TLeo 03/11/2013 at 6:34 AM #

    Don’t forget letting a team roll the ball all the way to midcourt (was that uva?) to keep time from running off the clock. I’m not going to jump on him too bad because this team/players deserves most of the blame, but those were some costly mistakes.

  2. graywolf 03/11/2013 at 7:16 AM #

    Another year without a banner to hang. Will the Valvano curse ever end?!

  3. Rochester 03/11/2013 at 7:53 AM #

    As part of the recruiting process we should institute some sort of Wonderlic test. Stupid (and lazy) play has killed us a number of times this year. There is no way we should be 5th seed in this conference this year.

    I’m optimistic some of this will resolve itself as soon as the current roster is dissolved, but this season has been less than I hoped for. Maybe we have something up our sleeve, but when was the last time we strung four good games in a row? I’m not remembering it.

  4. theTHRILL 03/11/2013 at 7:55 AM #

    Any true State fan knew that there was no way Maryland would hang on to win yesterday. No way. Guessing exactly HOW Maryland would choke was the only suspenseful part.

  5. tuckerdorm1983 03/11/2013 at 8:01 AM #

    I had some very serious doubts at the beginning of the season as everyone else was drinking the kool-aid.
    I kept saying “we don’t have a center post up player”. I hoped that V-burg would step up, but apparently his feet are nailed to the floor.

    Three freshmen played above expectations. TJ Warren is probably Freshman of the Year in the ACC.

    CJ has been a total bust. Low basketball IQ and has not come close to mastering the fundamentals with footwork or shot selection.

    Brown has been outstanding for the most part. Without him things would be much much worse.

    Wood is a one trick pony that cannot drive past anyone or post up.

    Howell is a beast, I wish he were 3 or 4 inches taller with longer arms.

    We could play on Sunday, depending on CJ. If he gets three fouls in the first half or four fouls early in the second half then turn off the TV because it is game set match.

  6. Rochester 03/11/2013 at 8:02 AM #

    Thrill, if you guessed missing every layup they took and blowing the last first half possession on a brutal airball that resulted in 3 free points for the Hoos, you nailed it. Right about there I knew the Twerps would eff it up.

  7. choppack1 03/11/2013 at 8:15 AM #

    Y’all crack me up. So quick to throw players under bus…have you ever thought that mabe tdt knew what he was talking about?

    So tell me, if you are Lorenzo Brown and you don’t play hard what is your punishment?

    He has someone behind him who has proven himself…. so lo brown played hard and focused vs. FSU Saturday because he played whole game right?

  8. sjmac11 03/11/2013 at 8:32 AM #

    What’s all this crap about without Lo where would we be?????? When starting Tyler Lewis put up numbers as good or better than anything Lorenzo Brown has done. Overall he is about as lazy and absent minded as big bad CJ. This year has been bust, typical NC State bust. Very winable ACC Tourney games, would be tough with a strong minded team, impossible for this one. I truley believe most of them feel just like me…..lets get this over with.

  9. ADVENTUROO 03/11/2013 at 8:44 AM #

    The skys are gray this morning……

    BTW……why is the background on the “Leave a Reply” panel this YUCKY Light Blue? Has it always been this way, but I just noticed….

    Back on point.

    We are about where we put ourselves. Much has been written. The N&O used the term “Relegated” in their headline. WRAL has a pretty concise piece with some interesting stats.

    http://www.wralsportsfan.com/acc-tourney-seeds-set-where-do-advantages-lie-/12206285/

    I FULLY understand how the NCAAT rankings are calculated and they will have us not being a bubble team. UVA is at the bottom and, like us last year, is fighting to get in. They actually have our old “status” from last year.

    Someone kidded me on the UVA/MD thread about NOT using the Jedi “mind meld”. I will leave that boner to the chief bungler in charge who currently occupies the plushest Government Housing Complex ever at 1600 PA Avenue.

    However, I do WISH that Master Gottfried could assist Calvin in his training and get him to use the “Force”. Maybe he should mentally channel the phrase “Use the Force, Calvin, use the Force…..”

    Sure seems like the Dark Side takes over….

    The only bright spot this morning is that the light blue boys have to really feel like whipped puppies. The line on the FSU game was NCSU by 4. The UNC boys were only a plus 1….but they fell by a sizeable margin and Roy and his “sexy” (from the N&O article) really never had any momentum. The game was, for all practical purposes, over when Curry and Ryan and Plumlee said “embarass them”….and they did.

    I think we will get by VT…they put us to the test at the PNC. We were either a 14 or 18 point favorite and it went to OT….Mr. Green will probably want to make a statement about not being the POY despite his credentials….much as Burleson did in 1974.

    Not going to the ACCT with the same expectations that had when I made my parking reservations in the MH lot. BUT, will be there is full regalia.

    We stand a chance of playing on Saturday. A Sunday appearance is worth $62.5K to Master Gott.

    The inconsistency of the Zebs is really frustrating. You can color code some of them….using RED (KH) Yellow (some KH) and Green (totally professional and impartial). If you them go back to key games, we end up with more RED and a few YELLOWS….with only a smattering of GREENS.

    As one sports writer or maybe poster or maybe commentator said, when the fans start recognizing the REF’s and know their names, then the Refs are becoming part of the show, when they should sort of fade into the background like the “event staff” guards on the edges of the court.

    GO PACK

  10. NJpack 03/11/2013 at 9:03 AM #

    I think Bill Parcells was the one who said “You are what your record says you are”, and based on our play this year, 5th place is about right. At least Gottfried loses his bonus for not finishing in the top 4 of the league, that’s his punishment for the coaching job during the Maryland game, and not emphasizing that guys block out on the FSU free throw late in the game, as well as not emphasizing “watch out for a long inbounds pass” at the end of that game.

    We’re only going to go as far as Leslie takes us, not that he needs to be the leading scorer every game, but we sure as heck need more than 4 points from him.

    As for next year, with Howell, Wood, and probably Brown and Leslie gone, we’re going to be pretty darn thin next year. We’ve got two big men and a PG as commits, so unless we tear it up in spring recruiting or get one or two 5th year seniors who can play immediately, Vandenburg will be logging some major minutes next year, which is pretty scary.

  11. Codebrown 03/11/2013 at 9:16 AM #

    “Shell-Shocked” is really how we feel normally now. The expression should be changed to “Wolf-Packed”.

  12. PackerInRussia 03/11/2013 at 9:21 AM #

    Glad you caught my “Jedi mind meld” reference, Adventuroo 🙂

  13. Khan 03/11/2013 at 9:38 AM #

    “We could play on Sunday, depending on CJ. If he gets three fouls in the first half or four fouls early in the second half then turn off the TV because it is game set match.”

    That might actually be the best thing that happens. I’m not sure how somebody with so much talent can devlove their game so efficiently that they basically become a non-factor at best and a direct contributor to losing at worst.

    Either it’s intentional, or he’s not nearly as talented as we thought. It’s one or the other. Consistent turn-overs, goal-tends, missed free throws, bad fouls, bad shots, bad attitude, etc…none of those things tend to help us very much.

    If that’s the kind of contribution that we’re going to get from him, then it might we might actually be in a better position if he doesn’t contribute.

    On the other hand, he’s had some good games too, which seems to prove (to me at least) that he does have a great talent (hmmmmmm). Anyway, not throwing him under the bus, just stating facts. But to try and figure out whether he’s going to predominately help you or hurt you on any given day, you might as well flip a coin.

  14. GoState91 03/11/2013 at 10:05 AM #

    I’m not surprised that MD imploded. I saw it coming even when they were up by 17 and UVA could not throw it in the ocean standing on the pier. Horrible basketball by both teams. We NEVER should have lost to either one of them. Anyway… I have a bad feeling about playing VPI. They should have beat us in Raleigh. We are lucky we won in OT. They will be confident and loose. If we come in lazy and self-satisfied lookout. It will be an embarrassing one and done and then a quick out in the NCAA. Hope I’m wrong. The team does not seem focused. Great teams take care of business in Tallahassee and don’t depend on the Twerps to do the job for them. Records don’t lie. We are an above average team in a weak conference. Last game of the regular season and we are still have no momentum and plenty of fundamental issues. We go from pre-season pick to win the ACC to playing on Thursday. We go from a preseason potential 1 or 2 seed to most likely a 9 or 10 seed. A weak Carolina team will be seeded better than us. A tremendous underachievement. State fans deserve better than this.

  15. packof81 03/11/2013 at 10:18 AM #

    Based on all I’ve seen this season, I would not be surprised if we are one and done in both tournaments.

  16. wolfy85 03/11/2013 at 10:36 AM #

    Terrible weekend for us, but the upside is that we don’t have to play Duke until Sunday, if we can get it going and make it that far.

    If we can get on a run in the ACC tourney, we could really bump up our NCAA seeding and give ourselves a shot at another sweet sixteen. We need to avoid having to play a #1 seed in the 2nd round to make that happen.

    Our game @ FSU and the MD @ UVA game were some of the worst games I’ve ever seen officiated. I’ll be damned if the ref’s didn’t get UVA back in that game. They were in the bonus by the first media timeout in the second half and in the double bonus by the second media timeout. Maryland couldn’t get within 10 feet of a UVA player in the second half.

    If it looks fishy and smells fishy, odds are that it’s fishy.

    Edit: I counted at least three instances in the second half of the MD UVA game where the official under the basket waited until the UVA player had missed the shot and MD had rebounded the ball, then he whistled a foul on the MD player who had been guarding the shooter. That ref should never do another competitive game, that is unacceptable.

  17. Gene 03/11/2013 at 10:36 AM #

    “I’m not going to jump on him too bad because this team/players deserves most of the blame, ”

    Gott’s in-game coaching has a lot of room for improvement. We blew games coming out of time outs more times than we had success.

    “Someone kidded me on the UVA/MD thread about NOT using the Jedi “mind meld”. ”

    Jedi mind-meld for the win beeotch.

    “Various commentators immediately criticized the President for, as they say, crossing the streams. Jim Kuhnhenn of the Associated Press wrote that Obama “…mixed his sci-fi metaphors…The Jedi reference comes from Star Wars, and the mind meld from Star Trek.” Xeni Jardin of BoingBoing wrote that the President “tried to drop a gratuitous nerd culture reference…and blew it.” #ObamaSciFiQuotes began trending on Twitter, mocking Obama for his apparent misstep.

    Out of a nascent sense of patriotism, and animated by the spirit of my friend Matt Stempeck’s LazyTruth, I now reluctantly but firmly step forward in defense of my President against these reckless and ill-founded accusations. Obama did not, as Jardin claimed, “blow” his reference: he was more correct than any of his critics could possibly imagine.

    First, as a friend pointed out, there is a Jedi Meld well established within the admittedly capacious but nonetheless official contours of the Star Wars: Expanded Universe. In Outbound Flight, a novel written by the prolific Timothy Zahn, the Jedi Master Jorus C’baoth instructs a young Anakin Skywalker that the Jedi Meld “permits a group of Jedi to connect their minds so closely as to act as a single person.” (emphasis added)

    According to Wookieepedia, the Jedi Meld was deployed by dozens of Jedi, including (but not limited to) Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade Skywalker, and Anakin, Jacen, and Jaina Solo, across dozens officially-licensed books. Indeed, its recovery and redevelopment, principally by the Solo children, was an important turning point in the Yuuzhan Vong War as chronicled exhaustively in the New Jedi Order series.”

    http://civic.mit.edu/blog/petey/sorry-nerds-but-obama-was-right-about-the-jedi-meld-and-metaphysics

  18. wolfpackdawg 03/11/2013 at 11:15 AM #

    I don’t expect us to do much in either tourney. This team way underachieved with the talent level. Lack of leadership is a killer.

  19. PackDave 03/11/2013 at 11:28 AM #

    This season has been a combination of NCStateShit (‘Zo’s injury, incompetent officiating, funky rebounds), poor late-game coaching and the decline of CJ Leslie’s focus and composure.

    We obviously can’t do anything about NCStateShit. Like bad weather and taxes, it’s just something that has to be tolerated. As for the coaching, I’m willing to put up with it because Gottfried’s good qualities vastly outweigh the bad. I love his energy and ability to connect with his players (for the most part).

    As for CJ, his ass should have been planted on the bench about the time he decided to start turning the ball over six times a game. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result. When you try the same spin move thirty times and get called for traveling, it’s nuts to keep trying that move and expect not to get called. He’s over-thinking things and has himself in a mental funk the likes of which I don’t think I’ve ever seen. I would rather have a consistently mediocre player than an inconsistent one. Let CJ ride the pine and play bench minutes until he heads to the NBA.

  20. PoppaJohn 03/11/2013 at 11:47 AM #

    Not expecting much from the post season this year. Sadly, it’s the tough, focused teams that do well – and that does not describe us. That’s the thing that separates the Devils from the rest, most years.

    However, the idea of sitting CJ is nuts. If he is ever going to earn his keep, this is it. The post season is always about different players stepping up each game, seldom does one player carry us all the way. So we need to deploy all our weapons and hope he wins one for us while not being too great a negative. Imagine a scenario in which we lose a game, and didn’t play CJ – our most talented player. As frustrating as he is, and we all know he’s a turnover waiting to happen – but he has to play.

    So you say, “don’t start him.” The reason you wouldn’t start your most talented player is to send him a message. Too late for that. There’s probably four games left this season – might as well go big.

  21. Rick 03/11/2013 at 12:13 PM #

    chop hates him some Gott

    This the best two years since V. I am not ready to throw him under the bus like chop is.

  22. Wulfpack 03/11/2013 at 12:27 PM #

    Wish it was this year we made the sweet 16, not last year. Just making the tourney was an accomplishment, not so this year. Disappointing season thus far. Calvin much to blame. Just telling it like it is.

  23. PoppaJohn 03/11/2013 at 12:32 PM #

    ^^ ditto

    You want to dump the coach already? Incredible!

    While I am IMMENSELY disappointed in this year’s overall results because I drank the preseason Kool Aid, but it’s still been the most fun to watch since V.

    I’ll make a post season projection that might make chop happy. I’ll bet we lose an assistant coach or two this summer. We all saw the possiblity of the stars aligning this year (two senior starters, two 4 star junior starters, three highly regarded freshmen, and a weak ACC) and had high expectations. Now that we go into a rebuilding year, I’m betting they look at offers more closely.

  24. Texpack 03/11/2013 at 12:35 PM #

    We can’t face a team that is truly better than we are (Duke) until Sunday. Therefore, we have an excellent chance to win the whole thing.

  25. Khan 03/11/2013 at 12:43 PM #

    ^ I believe our excellent chance of winning the whole thing died with the missed MD jumper at the end of regulation yesterday.

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