There was only one ACC game last night, but it was a doozy. Clemson played their best game (that I’ve seen) this year and completely dismantled a seemingly disinterested Maryland team. I guess their two wins got to their heads. The thing about Maryland’s recent streak of two “good” wins is that it was deceiving.…

I had a longer writeup of the weekend’s games in the works (meaning “in my head”), but time’s running out, so I’ll just do a quickie and get you the updated ratings chart. I already wrote up my feelings about that Carolina-Virginia travesty. That article, as you might imagine, has gotten some attention. It seems…

I’m not a reactionary fan. I’m not one of those guys who feels the need to talk trash and predict national championships after every win and then calls for the coach’s head after every loss. I don’t like those fans. Actually, I do like to make fun of them, which is why you’ll see a…

Last night’s Wake Forest-Georgia Tech game was a lot of fun to watch, wasn’t it? It wasn’t the most beautiful execution you’ll ever see, but both teams went after each other with abandon. There’s just something fun about watching backcourts full of athletic, aggressive players attack each other. Jack, Bynum, Paul and Gray – those…

Follow the sequence from this weekend – Duke crushes FSU in Tallahassee, NC State stomps Maryland in College Park, Florida State beats State in Raleigh and then Maryland beats Duke at Duke. It doesn’t make much sense, does it? Games seem like they are completely random – a roll of the dice. It seems that…

I go away for one weekend and the whole conference goes berserk! OK, that’s not exactly true. Things were already starting to get pretty nutty before I left, and honestly, do things ever go like we think they will? Each year, we see teams play a few times early in the season and think we…

I’ve written several times in the past couple of weeks about how fans of Virginia and NC State have been prematurely panicking about their teams’ chances. It’s too early for that, I argued. There’s plenty of season left. Well, now it’s time. Last night’s losses, Virginia at Maryland and NC State at Virginia Tech, left…

A brief summary of NC State’s ACC season so far – Oh my God! We suck and Herb sucks and we’re going to miss the tournam … oh wait, nevermind. Everything’s cool. The Wolfpack’s win over an apparently disinterested Georgia Tech squad put them back on track for the most part. You wouldn’t really expect…

Shadoe Adams of Bellows Free Academy-Fairfax, a high school in Vermont, hit a game-winning three in a big game against Milton the other night. Adams’ clutch three-pointer was a bit unusual in that it came in the second quarter of the game. That’s right, the second quarter of a 5-2 win. I didn’t mistype that.…

The NC State – Duke game last night was a slugfest. As I wrote yesterday, it was a very important game for State. They’d lost three in a row and the next game is against Georgia Tech. If they are going to compete in the upper tier of the ACC, they need to beat one…