ACC Tournament Friday. This most sacred of days in North Carolina will most notably be missing the North Carolina from it for the first time since 1979 when UNC had a bye. It will include Duke and NC State which pretty much means our interactions with our rival fans is going to suck into the near future. That is unless Virginia, in particular can deal a major blow the the Blue Devils today at noon. NCSU winning bothers me less because those people have suffered enough.
#1 Duke vs #9 Virginia, 12:00 PM
#4 Virginia Tech vs #12 Miami, approx. 2:30 PM
#2 Maryland vs #7 Georgia Tech, 7:00 PM
#3 FSU vs #11 NC State, approx 9:30 PM
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Just watched Scheyer pull a UVa player into him after shooting a 3 to get the foul. Duke or not, that stuff irks me to no end. For all the crap JJ took, at least he never did that at the rate that Scheyer does. Even Schulman and Elmore took him to task a bit…
at a crucial time in the game…the refs call a sideline out of bounds wrong, then give dook a timeout on a held ball that Nolan Smith might have had sole possession of for 1/10th of a second, if you were able to slow down the film. you couldnt begin to say the two syllables “timeout” in that amount of time.
the dookies really dont need any help guys.
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OSU over Mich by 1, on an Evans 40 footer at the buzzer.
Evan Turner with a 40-foot three at the buzzer to win the game for OSU.
NPOY.
All debate is over.
UK down at half.
when did UTEP and Temple become top 20 teams? was i asleep when that happened?
New Mexico top 10? i missed that, too. thats Steve Alford.
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Lunardi has Wake and GT as 11 seeds now. those two need not make reservations for the 2nd weekend.
Duke is the best the ACC has to offer and can’t even score 60 points. Wow. The ACC really does suck this year.
i have the tv audio on, unfortunately, because i want to follow espn’s games, too.
and Tim Brant is just beyond awful.
the state of American sports broadcasting is abysmal. i can only hope there are some young guys out there waiting to get their chances, or i will be watching every sporting event in Mute pretty soon here.
judging by the talent on local Triangle sports radio, tho, i should not hold my breath.
i can only assume that Jones Angell is waiting for Woody to retire or worse, and then he and Eric will man the Tar Heel radio network. but local talk radio has zero enjoyable talent outside David Glenn, who isnt a game guy, and possibly Adam Gold, who isnt either.
If they could put either Sean McDonough or Dan Shulman in the booth with Jay Bilas for the Final Four, I would be a happy camper.
yeah, that would be fine.
one of the most enjoyable is Gus Johnson, and you cant hardly find him. i guess he isnt part of the “club”.
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MJ at the Big Ten tourney, watching his son.
^^Actually, I really like all of the CBS announcing teams EXCEPT the one that they tout as their #1 team. Eagle/Spanarkle and Lundquist/Raftery/Bilas are awesome, and Gus Johnson is so entertaining that he can carry Elmore. Even Bolerjack and Wenzel are pretty good. I can’t for the life of me figure out why CBS thinks Nantz/Kellogg is any good, but then again, I can’t understand why Fox thinks Buck/McCarver is any good. I can’t be the only person who doesn’t like listening to pompous jackasses…
Jeff Lebo about to be fired by Auburn. According to Andy Katz, UNC was set to be their first opponent in their new building next year, but you can expect that UNC will pull out of that now.
The only thing I can say for Va Tech if they don’t make the tourny again this year…at least it wasn’t Carolina again.
VT is going.
as are Clemson and Wake.
as happens about every time…dook winds up getting the lower seeded team.
we’ll see if Miami brings anything tomorrow.
Is it me or does Duke always get some gift semifinals opponent in the ACC Tournament? In 2006 I believe they got #12 Wake. Last year they got MD as a lower seed. Now they get #12 Miami. Of course Miami did lead Duke by 12 at halftime in Miami. Durand Scott is playing like a top PG and the Canes have some interior athleticism. Still, it is annoying.
^its been happening for dook in both dances for 20+ years.
Since expansion Duke has faced the following seeds in the semis:
7
12
3
7
12
The only time they lost in the semis was when fact #3 Clemson in 2008.
they did lose to State on day 1 that time.
but last year they didnt have to face Wake or us.
02, as the #2, they dont face the #1, Maryland, kill State in the final.
03, as the #3, they dont face the #2, Maryland, or the #1, Wake.
05, as the #3, they dont face the #2, Wake, or the #1, us.
06, as the #1, they get the 12, not the 4.
Duke doesnt lose in the ACC tourney, the NCAA is another story
NCAAT
04, they got to play the #7 in the regional final.
03, they got the 11, not the 6 in round 2.
01, they got the 6, not the 2 or the 3 in the regional final. then a 3, and a 2. no 1s.
99, they got the 12 and 6 in their region.
97, they lost to the 10, Providence. ah, glorious.
almost as glorious as losing round 1 in 96 to Eastern Mich.
94…lets not go there.
92, they played a 6 for the NCAA title.
91, they played an 11 and 4, not the 3 then the 1. then a 3 for the title. the year we might have had the unthinkable. UNC vs dook for the whole thing.
as the 2 played the 11, not the 3 two other times in 88 and 89.
87, played the 13, not the 4 in the 2nd round.
86, played the 12 then the 7, not the 4 and 2, to win their region.
we got really no breaks in 82 or 93.
we got a break or two in 97 and 98, and squandered them, losing in the FF.
05, we played a 6 in the regional final, a 5 in the National semis.
too many other times, we’re losing to teams we shouldnt.
but our record doesnt begin to compare with dook’s for higher seeds dropping off in front of them.
Just random and funny how much Evan Turner sounds like meatwad from aqua teen, evidence:
First, Evan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umVYj3y5XgQ
Now, meatwad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeFhhyyW-cg&feature=related
ugh. Maryland loses to GT. they come back from 18 down at half to 6 down with 16 minutes left, and never even tie the game.
general Grievous 6-21.
teams just laying down.
Boy HTTE, when something irks you it really gets you going. Thanks for all the past info. But I am right there with you. Come Sunday, we will yet again, see the favorable bracket matchups for them. why why why.
^my hate of all things dook knows no bounds.
just look at that stretch from 86-91. EVERYone dropped out, like they were afraid to even play them. it was SO annoying.
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a little bird tells me that game 1 over at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park goes to the Heels, 21-9.
yes, 21.
One thing I have to admit, Grievis Vasquez plays like a leader and takes responsibility like a leader. I just heard his postgame presser and he took responsibility for the loss and for not playing well, he did not try to pass the buck on to other players like our seniors have done all year long.
so when State wins this game…
there will be a 7, an 11 and a 12 left. fantastic.
we can’t beat Clemson or FSU, but a team we beat twice does on back to back nights. makes ya feel special.
The fact that State is even in this game is amazing, just shows that they want this win. At UNC, LD2 is now making excuses because supposedly the fans have been asking for perfection from them!! In fact after reading this I think it’s best that LD2 transfers. This team can do without a player with his attitude, another one of those fragile-ego excuse-makers.
1. I’m not aware of any UNC seniors putting others under the bus.
2. I wouldn’t get *too* worked up about LDII’s comments. They were foolish words, to be sure but I get the gist. Let’s face it, Carolina fans are relatively spoiled with immense success in b-ball, so this season has been an immense shock. After all, this season has to hurt the players worse than the fans. He deserves to be put in his place for poor judgement then but, again, the calls for him to leave are more over-the-top IMO.
agreed BR–in fact, lmao @ cb74. LD should have kept his mouth shut, but I would LOVE-LOVE-LOVE to see what came out of the mouths of some of these internet critics if a reporter stuck a mic in front of them and asked a leading question. Too funny by a mile.
LDII just needs to focus on improving his own individual play. Right now he wouldn’t even win the starting job at NC State, who is doing their best to show everyone that winning a couple games in the ACC tournament aint that hard.
^^What is funny is that nothing LDII said is untrue It’s funny how in today’s society the order of appropriate answers to media questions appears to:
1: No comment/change subject.
2: Generic, insincere, babble.
3: Lie.
4. Truth.
Even if one has strong opinions that these kids should “never” say certain things to the media, you still have to admit they basically have the right to comment on the severe criticism leveled at them.
Whay should this be a one-way street?
^^LDII implied that fans are “spoiled” for wanting to have a better season then we had this year. You consider that the “truth”? The truth is we are spoiled because we don’t like being 5-11 in the ACC? The truth is that being angry at the team for surrendering 4 minutes into a game against Dook is a sign of fans being spoiled? I’m not spoiled. Larry Drew is not good. THATS the truth.
true…spoiled might not be appropriate. maybe petulant or immature might be a better word.
^^Drew can always say whatever he wants to say – but if he says something foolish, people can rip him for what he said. I think I am like the majority of UNC fans. I didn’t expect this team to go on a deep run in the NCAA tournament this year, or be in the Top 10 or whatever… if I did, and then I got angry when they didn’t, THEN I’d be spoiled. But I also didn’t expect them to be among the worst teams in the ACC and flat out quit in several games this year while making the same mistakes in February that they were making in practice in October. That’s why so many UNC fans are mad, and for Larry Drew to suggest that being mad about those things is a sign of being spoiled is incredibly stupid.
CM/LarryS: question–did Drew’s comment make you angry?
^Absolutely not.