h/t collegechalktalk.prestosports.com Today Mark Gottfried officially introduced Butch Pierre as his new assistant coach. Pierre previously was on Travis Ford’s staff at Oklahoma State. “I’ve known Butch for a long time and he’s regarded as one of college basketball’s premier recruiters, but he is also a great teacher of the game who has spent a […]
15-16 Basketball
Selection Sunday Post-Mortem
I wish that I caught the name of the Selection Committee chairmen that went on CBS to discuss the decision-making process and answer the standard group of critics. I thought he did a great job at shutting up the critics on CBS. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to his explanations. The one thing that I got […]
Strength of Schedule Analysis
Usually at the end of basketball season, I like to document the variations in strength of schedule among the ACC teams in two parts: Out of Conference and the variation in conference schedules caused by having a ginarmous league. With the dropping interest in discussing anything related to the 2015/2016 basketball season, I thought that […]
ACC Tourney: Duke preview
Why NC State can pull off the upset vs Duke — …and we play our best defense of the year… And they have to deal with some foul trouble to a key player… https://t.co/UvZQIwvZUS — statefansnation (@statefansnation) March 9, 2016 Pack is Back! Time to attack. https://t.co/iwVSs3ujQx pic.twitter.com/u1dBCmEUzj — JD King (@DBRTweetz) March 9, 2016 […]
State topples Deacons, 75-72
Honestly, that’s all I wanted from Washington — just one win. Go beat a bad Wake Forest team with the hopes of winning a couple of games in a crappy post season tournament and finish with a .500 record or winning record. As I mentioned in our pregame entry, the win just helps State continue […]
State vs Wake in old school ACC Tournament match-up
Game day. ??? #ACCtourney pic.twitter.com/SxBzHuhvQj — Shantel Jordan (@_ShantelJordan) March 8, 2016 State and Wake will do battle in Washington’s Verizon Center today at noon. This is the first time since 2006 that State and Wake will be playing in the ACC Tournament — Wake won the last match up in Greensboro after State beat […]
Last Look at the Bubble
It’s time for our last look at RPI Rankings as we assess where the ACC teams fit with respect to the Bubble. Usually, we discuss what various teams need to do in order to clear the bubble and make the NCAAT. This year is dramatically different in that seven teams are rated by nearly everyone […]
Miserable regular season ends at Notre Dame
ACC Basketball has a nice slate of games ready for the end of the season: Saturday's ACC On TV:12 NCSU-ND (CBS); CU-BC (RSN)2 SU-FSU (ESPN2); Pitt-GT (ACC)4 UM-VT (ACC)6:30 UNC-Duke (ESPN)8:30 Louis-UVa (ESPN) — David Glenn Show (@DavidGlennShow) March 5, 2016
Pack pulls off a heartstopper
On the same day that NC State’s Maverick Rowan earned recognition as a member of the ACC’s All-Academic team, the freshman earned an even bigger spot in the hearts of Wolfpackers when he delivered the game winning lay up with 1.1 seconds remaining on Senior Night. Congratulations @maverickrowan! We couldn't be more excited about the […]
One More Week
Since the ACC’s only Thursday night game is going as expected, it seems safe enough to use Thursday morning’s RPI data for our weekly update: It’s interesting to note that UNC has the fewest Top-50 wins among those teams rated as IN. On Monday morning, I noticed that GT had moved past Clemson on the […]