After impressively missing on three of my four predictions yesterday, I’m sure you all can’t wait to see what I can get wrong today. In my defense, I nearly had the courage to pick Wake Forest to upset Florida State. Unfortunately, I have no more heart than the Seminoles and went with the chalk. The…

As I promised yesterday, I calculated the final regular season Prouty ratings for all ACC players. As I expected, the Prouties accurately picked four of the five first-team All-ACC performers. The one exception is Sean Singletary, who comes in 15th in Prouty, but the ratings don’t take into account leadership, toughness or offensive burden, other…

As you’ve probably seen by now, the ACC released it’s 2006 All-ACC Basketball teams today. The list is pretty solid and looks pretty close to what I expected.

02/28/06 Boston College 80, Wake Forest 65 – Chestnut Hill, Mass. Clinical. Predictable. 03/01/06 Clemson 86, Virginia Tech 81 – Blacksburg, Va. Don’t look now, but the Tigers seem to be finishing quite strongly. Road ACC wins are always something to be proud of, particularly for a team that had a pretty recent five game…

dis·in·gen·u·ous (dĭs’ĭn-jĕn‘yū-əs) adj. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: “an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who … exemplified … the most disagreeable traits of his time” (David Cannadine). Pretending to be unaware or unsophisticated; faux-naif. Mike Krzyzewski: “I never look at talking to the referee as “working the ref.” I think that’s one…

I got an email last night from a reader that said exactly what I was thinking – the ACC Coach of the Year award was settled last night. No question. The three men in the running were Coach K, Roy Williams and Dave Leitao, all for slightly different reasons. Krzyzewski was considered because while his…

It was a tough week for the ACC. Duke struggled against two weak teams, one a non-conference game, and the bubble teams all played like they didn’t want the hassle of booking travel to the NCAAs. Virginia actually deserves credit for stepping up onto the bubble early in the week with a huge win over…

02/21/06 Virginia 72, Boston College 58 – Charlottesville, VA Maybe BC got a bit too lax after winning eight straight ACC games. They certainly didn’t play like they respected Virginia in this one and they paid the price. The Cavs led from the opening bucket and looked impressive all the way. This win produced a…

02/21/06 Boston College @ Virginia – Charlottesville, Va. RSN (XM 191) 7:00 PM (I’m going to pretend that this game hasn’t happened yet and write what I planned on writing before the game. My thoughts about the actual game will go in the comments.) This game doesn’t really have any particular meaning, but that probably…

It wasn’t a good week for the ACC bubble teams. Maryland and Virginia both slipped in almost every poll while Miami and Florida State basically spun their wheels. For Miami and UVA, their only chance was to make some big gains in the final few weeks of the season, and that didn’t happen this week.…