Mens
AP POLL
#4 Duke
#12 Louisville
#18 UNC
Receiving Votes
#26 NC State
#41 Virginia Tech/Stanford
Coaches Poll
#4 Duke
#12 Louisville
#20 UNC
Receiving Votes
#30 NC State
#31 UVA
#35 Clemson
Top Games
Tue 630pm FS1 Wake at #6 Michigan
Tue 7pm SEC Network FSU at #10 Florida
Tue 8pm ESPN #8 Kentucky at #12 Louisville
Friday 9pm SEC Network GT at UGA
Sunday 1230 FS1 Notre Dame at Ohio St
Sunday 830 ESPN Miami at #10 Florida
Womens
AP Poll
#10 NC State
#11 UNC
#15 Duke
#18 Notre Dame
#22 Louisville
Receiving Votes
#35 Stanford
No Coaches Poll yet
Top Games
Tue 630pm ESPN2 Clemson at #2 South Carolina
Thursday 9pm ESPN2 #11 UNC at #3 USC
Saturday 4pm NBC #18 Notre Dame vs #14 Michigan
Sunday 1pm ESPN #17 TCU at #10 NC State
Sunday 3pm ESPN2 #22 Louisville at Clemson
Comments
This time of year is all about that Al Davis mantra: "Just win baby!"
Wake Forest tied at 84 in OT with #6 Michigan
FSU hanging tough with #10 Florida. Florida up 71-70 with just over a minute left
Louisville up on Kentucky at halftime.
Michigan escapes Wake with a no call on fouling Wake shooter at the buzzer right at the basket. Center definitely fouled hard.
Ranked team is always going to get the whistle swallowed when they need it in these early games. Especially against unranked teams.
I went and looked and I wouldn't have blown the whistle either. The Wake guard was spazzing out and the ball was well out of his hands before the contact. That's a no call for me.
Welp Florida going to finish it. ACC 0-2 now in big games tonight.
Louisville maintaining 10 to 12 pt lead over Kentucky. Gotta root for the ACC here.
I still feel dirty rooting for Louisville after all the Conference Wars shit in the 90s. Eff them.
Louisville finishes off Big Blue 96-88.
ACC goes 1-2 in big games.
ACC went 7-3 with Boston College laying a 60-59 turd against Coastal Carolina at home in front of twelve people not employed there. BC shot 32% from floor and 20% from 3. Surprisingly hit 88.9% at line but only got there 9 times. They were up by 11 at one point in the game.
Even worse BC lost to Central Connecticut State, a 300 plus KenPom team.
I saw that on the ticker and was shocked Connecticut was large enough to warrant having a "Center" directional school
Just left CT after many years, and yup they have all points of the compass covered except North.
Dont worry, bc will get a win against us
CMY' record against bc is similar to Pry's record in 1-score games.
…and it will be because Tyrese Rice drops 40 points on us.
Hannah Hidalgo from Notre Dame came within one rebound of a triple-double.
She finished with 44 points, 16 STEALS and nine rebounds.
ACC women on Tuesday went 4-1 with #2 SCar blowing out Clemson. Tonight ACC went 5-0. Tomorrow eight games on the slate, favored in six. SMU an underdog to Texas Tech and #11 NC State a dog to #3 UCLA.
NC State has played an impressive non conference schedule so far. They really should have beaten USC on Sunday. They look solid as always.
SMU women almost being doubled up tonight by Texas Tech. 84-46 with 7 minutes to go.
Pitt men got destroyed by WVU 71-49.
Looks like Ol' huggy bear didn't help Pitt that much
Men's side this week
7-3 yesterday as discussed above and tonight 2-0 with Stanford still playing. NC State put up 110 tonight over UNCG. Tomorrow only has two games. Both are tossups. Pitt heads to Backyard Brawl Hardwood Edition and Cal is at Kansas State.
With so few big time OOC match-ups, it seems being on the wrong side of just a few close games has way too much impact on how many NCAA bids a conference gets.
SIGNIFICANT downside of expanded leagues and expanded conference schedules. Used to be a roughly 15/15 OOC/Conf schedule split, now its 12/18 OOC/Conf and then maybe a 19th ACC tourney game or up to four which can tip it to 12/19 or 12/22.
Every conference record is going to be some version of .500 so it makes going 10+ OOC wins that much more important if you want to get to 20 wins on the year. Another reason the P2 aren't in a hurry to boot their bottom feeders. Four or five teams with 4/5 conference wins helps get bids for the top.
Look at A&M in football, they have played like 6 games against teams with interim coaches, There best win is either 6-3 Mizzou who lost their top 2 QBs and ND who has 1 win against a good P4 team with Navy and Boise being the only other opponents with decent records. But they are SEC so they get the benefit of a "brutal" schedule. Why get rid of Arkansas, SC, Auburn, and Miss St when beating them is almost the same as beating Bama and UGA
UVA women trying to lose to UMBC. Where have I seen that before?
And they did lose, 61-56.
Yeah it was very seesaw but they never could get the lead in 3rd or 4th quarter. Tied it a couple times but would then go flat again.
Hmm, Where have I seen that before?
Lady Tarholes never should have gotten on the plane West. UCLA beat them 78-60 and a member of their softball team even scored a bucket for the Bruins.
OMG, LOL
#15 Duke women struggling against WVU at the Greenbrier Classic. Only up 23-20 at halftime.
The ol' Greenbriar, what a classic basketball venue. /s
Still large enough for all the fans at a UVA Spring Game
Duke now trailing 44-32 near end of 3rd Qtr
Even more comical with Duke losing 57-49 is that WVU had 6 players ejected for coming off the bench right before halftime . They only had 5 players left for second half and still beat Duke going away.
Saturday on Womens side, #18 Notre Dame got steamrolled by #14 Michigan 93-54. Another ACC faceplant of epic proportions.
Today, #10 NC State lost by ten to #17 TCU. Pitt then decided today was the day to lose to D3 Scranton. GT also lost to Jacksonville today. All in all a really terrible week for the ACC.
Saturday for Men, Clemson list to Georgetown but everyone else won, even BC beat Temple.
Today Notre Dame lost in the final seconds against Ohio St. Miami plays #10 Florida later. Florida escaped Florida St at the line earlier this week.