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Maryland: Happy Trails Danny O'Brien
Just one year ago, it was all smiles for Maryland Terrapin fans and Danny O'Brien. He was coming off a great freshman season and us fans were looking at 3 more years of possibly our best QB since Scott McBrien.
Now he's gone.
And he is sprinting out the door.
And I don't blame him one bit.
While the future may be better for the football program after a shockingly...
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Rivers, Zeller Win ACC Weekly Honors
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North Carolina center Tyler Zeller, who averaged 24 points and 10 rebounds a game, earned acclaim as Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Week, and Duke guard Austin Rivers, whose 29-point performance against the Tar Heels set a Blue Devil record, won Rookie of the Week for the fourth consecutive voting period in awards announced Monday by the conference office....
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ACC Morning Linkfest 2/13
If you take the pulse of the Virginia Tech fanbase, Seth Greenberg's seat is hot. If it weren't for a tap-in in the final seconds by Dorian Finney-Smith to help Virginia Tech escape with a one point win over Boston College, the seat would be scorching. Escape is the proper word, Boston College seemed to be in control most of the way but Virginia Tech hung around and made...
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ACC NCAA Bubble Analysis for 2/12
More jockeying for position this week…. How are things shaping with selection Sunday quickly approaching?
In my ranking system, any RPI top (100) win is a good win and any RPI top (50) obviously worth more. Any losses outside the RPI top (100) is considered a bad loss, and outside the RPI (150) are even more damaging. I’m not counting future results only if I think a...
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Is Miles Plumlee the Next Brian Zoubek?
If I were Miles Plumlee I wouldn't know whether to be flattered or a bit depressed at the notion that I was being compared to Brian Zoubek.
That isn't a slight on Zoubek though, his performance from the middle part of the 2009-2010 season is the thing of Duke legend and the Blue Devils would not have won the national title without him.
But the expectations for Miles Plumlee...
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ACC Morning Linkfest 2/12
Big men stole the show on Saturday as Bernard James, Tyler Zeller, and Miles Plumlee each had outstanding performances. The four games went pretty much as expected, as both Game Sim and my personal predictions went 4-0.
Check out the ACC Digital Network for highlights, and enjoy the links below. Happy Sunday.
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Game Notes: Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Boston College at Virginia Tech Date 2/12/2012 6:00:00 PMLive StatsLinkTV ESPNU Team Stats Embed This Chart On Your WebsiteMore Stat ComparisonsMore Team StatsEfficiency Predicted Final ScoreVirginia Tech 65 Boston College 53Matchup Simulation StatsThis game has been simulated 72 times.VT (2012) has won 66 times (91.7% of the time), won by > 20 pts 30 times (41.7% of the time...
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Duke 73 Maryland 55
There were questions for the Duke Blue Devils coming off an incredibly emotional win over North Carolina just three days ago. After a tedious start, the Blue Devils flexed their muscles and pulled away for an 18-point win. After two home ACC losses in a row, this game was important for Duke’s confidence and standings in the conference.
Miles Plumlee had a Zoubekian performance...
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Game Notes: Maryland @ Duke
Maryland at Duke Date 2/11/2012 4:00:00 PMLive StatsLinkTV ESPN Team Stats Embed This Chart On Your WebsiteMore Stat ComparisonsMore Team StatsEfficiency Predicted Final ScoreDuke 81 Maryland 69Matchup Simulation StatsThis game has been simulated 54 times.DU (2012) has won 40 times (74.1% of the time), won by > 20 pts 9 times (16.7% of the time)MD (2012) has won 14 times (25...
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Game Notes: Miami @ FSU
Miami at FSU Date 2/11/2012 1:00:00 PMLive StatsLinkTV ACCN/ESPN3 Team Stats Embed This Chart On Your WebsiteMore Stat ComparisonsMore Team StatsEfficiency Predicted Final ScoreFSU 68 Miami 64Matchup Simulation StatsThis game has been simulated 55 times.FS (2012) has won 30 times (54.5% of the time), won by > 20 pts 7 times (12.7% of the time)MI (2012) has won 25 times (45...
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Pe'Shon Howard Out For Year With Torn ACL
The headline says it all. Jeff Ermann is reporting that Howard is out for the year. That's about the worst news the Terps could get heading into tomorrow's Duke game.
This is terrible news for a great kid like Pe'Shon who's already fought back from injury once this year.
I've been saying for weeks that the Terps have serious point guard problems to solve...
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Weekend Match-up Preview: February 10-11
A really good Saturday in the ACC as six of the top seven teams face off and the other (NC State) has a bye week. ESPNU somehow is carrying Boston College at Virginia Tech on Sunday, which has to be due to some contractual obligation to feature all 12 teams during its Sunday night showcase.
Finished 3-2 over the midweek games, now 34-20-2 overall against the spread. Just as an FYI...
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Is the ACC on the cusp of it's next great era of basketball?
The ACC’s reputation as a basketball conference is historically unmatched. In the last 25 years, no conference has more national titles or Final 4. That said the conference as a whole has fallen on some lean times when it comes to basketball. Yes the ACC has won 2 of the last 3 national titles, and 5 of the last 11, but still the perception is that the conference has struggled...
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Austin Rivers Has Been On A Tear Lately
The most highly coveted guard in the Class of 2011 committed to Duke on September 30th of 2010. Since that day, he has received immense media attention (both good and bad) and has shown himself to be one of college basketball’s most polarizing players. Playing for Duke, this does not surprise.
While both the media and Duke’s own fanbase have been critical of Austin&rsquo...
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Wake Forest Basketball Recruit Roundup Part II
On Tuesday night a few writers got the chance to see Codi Miller-McIntyre and Andre Washington play for Hargrave Military Academy in Greensboro. We wrote some stuff about them and gave a brief projection of where we saw them next year and in the future for the Deacs. Obviously, we do not have resources or the means to see Devin Thomas and Tyler Cavanaugh play since they are...
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PJ Hairston Out For the Virginia Game
Who’s ready for some Justin Watts? UNC has announced freshman guard P.J. Hairston will miss the Virginia game with a “sore foot.” Here is the UNC release:
University of North Carolina freshman guard P.J. Hairston is sidelined with a sore left foot and will be unable to play in tomorrow’s ACC game against the Virginia Cavaliers. Hairston has played in all...
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ACC Odds & Ends
Has the hype regarding the finish to the North Carolina versus Duke game gone a bit overboard? It is as if that was the first time a 3-point shot in the closing seconds won a game for a team, or the first time anyone ever came back from 10 points behind to win. The game did demonstrate that both of these squads have serious deficiencies that will probably prevent them from a...
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One More Look at the Last Two and a Half Minutes...
…and then let us never speak of it again.
With 24 hours to digest what actually transpired in the entire game, as well as the last 2 1/2 minutes that will go down forever in UNC-Duke lore, it is an interesting exercise to evaluate the final portion of the game possession-by-possession to really see the perfect storm of bizarre-ness that allowed Duke to overcome a 10-point...
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ACC Morning Linkfest 2/10
Just a quick post today. NC State and Miami took care of business last night. All of a sudden we have a conference split in half. Six teams with a legitimate shot at winning the regular season conference title and six teams that are playing for pride. I don't remember the last time in the ACC when six teams were within one game of 1st place after every team has played at...
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NC State Defeats Georgia Tech 61-52
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Which team has a better shot at the Final 4, Duke or North Carolina?
So Wednesday night was another Duke\UNC classic with the Blue Devils stunning the Heels on a last second 3 point shot by Austin Rivers. Below you can find the ACC’s Digital Network analysis of the game with highlights. Well they are highlights for Duke fans. I got some thoughts on the game as well, and what it means for both teams going forward. Let’s start with Duke...
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Pack Trio Selected to McDonald's All-America Team
For the first time in school history, NC State is bringing in three McDonald's All-Americans in one recruiting class, as Rodney Purvis, Tyler Lewis and TJ Warren were all selected to the prestigious Mickey D's team.
Obviously, this is a big deal for State's program in terms of publicity and exposure. Coach Gottfried and staff are making great strides in improving...
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UNC's Paige Selected For McDonalds All-American Game
Future Tar Heel point guard Marcus Paige was selected to play for the West in the McDonald’s All-American game becoming the latest in a long line of Tar Heel recruits to play in the game. Paige, who hails from Lin-Mar HS in Marion, Iowa is the 29th ranked player according to Scout.com but the #2 point guard in the class. Unlike past years, Paige will be the only incoming Tar...
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Duke Recruits Selected For McDonald's All-American Game
The future of Duke Basketball is still in flux as the Blue Devils still have committable scholarship offers out to 3 undecided players in the Class of 2012. Rasheed Sulaimon is the lone committed member of the senior class. The other players who may join him are Tony Parker, Amile Jefferson and Shabazz Muhammad.
All 3 of those players received invitations to the McDonald’s...
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A national writer writes a positive article on UNC football!
Haven’t see that in….oh….two years? SI.com’s Andy Staples catches up with Larry Fedora as he settles into the job of rebuilding UNC football.
When Fedora got the job, he quickly went to work defending against negative recruiting spawned by the scandal. While Cunningham had explained to Fedora what should happen in the case, coaches from other schools filled...
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