Wake #1?
- The Demon Deacons almost certainly can make a claim after beating Clemson in Littlejohn to remain undefeated. That is now two top ten wins for the Deacs and Jeff Teague has already been named NPOY, ACC POY and will be drafted #1 in June by an NBA team. Thanks for watching, have a good night. I had someone tell me Wake will win the national title. They very well could, if they continue to play like they have for two weeks. We all know from watching UNC smack Notre Dame and Michigan State around it is possible to look invincible one week and the biggest disappointment since pretty much any UConn team except for 1999 and 2004. If Wake becomes #1 that in itself, for a young team with a young coach is enough to send them into a funk. Ebb and flow people. Wake is good now. Wake was good in January of 2005 too. Ask Chris Paul how that turned out. And then there is this:
- Duke whipped Georgetown in Cameron on Saturday to put the “Grand Unified Theory That The Big East is Better than the ACC” in jeopardy. At the same time Duke also gave credence to the “Grand Unified Theory That Duke Somehow Can Handle a Team With An Inside Game” based on beating the Hoyas. Sorry I am not buying that last one and Dick Vitale can spare me the insistence the Big East is better because they are deep. So deep in fact Marquette almost lost to NC State.
- Speaking of the Pack, they won an ACC game. How about that. Granted it came against Georgia Tech. Granted I saw better offensive execution at an Upward game Saturday morning than the Yellow Jackets are capable of producing. I know you only get them for one year but October to January is plenty of time to get them on the same page Coach Hewitt.
- Boston College has not won a game since beating UNC in Chapel Hill. Worst. Letdown. Ever.
- The middle of the ACC pack is shaping up and it appears Clemson, Miami, FSU and Virginia Tech are your second tier behing the Wake, Duke, UNC first tier. The other five could really jump off a bridge and no one would miss them.
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The BC stat is almost laughable. I think the loss to BC will haunt us in basketball like the VT loss haunted us in football.
No loss in basketball can ever haunt a team like it does in football. Yes, it makes winning the ACC Reg. Season title more difficult, but it won’t really affect UNC’s title hopes, if UNC takes care of business from here on out. If they don’t, well then it will be that, and not the BC loss that is the problem.
Agreed it won’t hurt the team collectively or their chances to win either title. I took HP’s “haunt us” to mean haunt us the fanbase due to losing to BC at all. Especially given their body of work since then. I just chalk it up to another head scratching loss of a game that probably shouldn’t even have been a contest to begin with.
Duke impressed me with their win over Georgetown. Not so much their style of play cause defense should be played with the feet, not your hands. They play tough, physical defense and when they can make their 3′s it’s gonna be a long night.
Wake is who we thought they could be. If Dino can keep them playing at this high level and they stay healthy we can expect a tough three way fight for ACC bragging rights. I’ll be shocked if Wake doesn’t make a deep run in the natty’s this year.
Ron, you are correct to a degree. My “haunt” did refer to “head scratching by us fans” but I feel that the BC loss could ultimately affect our ACCT seeding, which in the end could affect our NCAAT seeding. It maybe a stretch, but that is what I was thinking when I wrote it……..
oh yea, Go Lady Tar Heels tonight!
Imagine this scenario: UNC sweeps Duke and Duke sweeps Wake, and they all beat everyone else to end the season 14-2. How is that seeded? Wake beat UNC, so they must be #1… but Duke swept Wake, so they should be #1… but UNC swept Duke, so they should be #1… what a headache!! The good news is, in that scenario, the ACC would probably be looking at 2 #1 seeds, and a protected #2.
CM,
You are talking about a repeat of 1995.
UNC, UVa, Wake and MD all finished 12-4 in 1995 and all had beaten each other or split. I might be wrong about this but I think they simply drew seeds from a hat to determine it since no one had a clear win in the tiebreakers.
It ended up 1. Wake 2. MD 3. UNC 4. UVa
I knew there was a recent example. Thanks. Best part of the seeding that year: Duke = #9!!
It looks like the NCAAT basically followed the results of the ACCT: Wake was a #1 seed. UNC a #2. Maryland was a #3. UVa was a #4.