The ACC season is still young, but that doesn’t mean that last night’s Virginia-Maryland game wasn’t hugely important. It was the most significant contest of the season so far (just beating out Duke’s game against Miami that the Blue Devils had to win). Virginia came into this season with reasonable expectations of making the NCAA…

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around the ACC so far this year and I just haven’t figured it out. Clearly the conference is better than last year – there’s been an amazing influx of talent – but I just can’t tell which teams are the legit contenders and which aren’t. Sure, a few…

It’s been a long time, so get ready for your favorite (I’m sure) recurring feature of Dave Sez – Name That Site! Below you’ll find a Google Earth pic of some famous ACC landmark. It might be a building on campus or simply a place where some significant ACC history has taken place. So, what’s…

How about that eight-day stretch for Virginia Tech? They went down to Durham last Saturday and knocked off the Blue Devils in Cameron – exorcising the demons from last year. They beat patsy UNCG during the week like enjoying a bit of sorbet between courses to cleanse the palette. Then they hosted the #1 ranked…

Saturday, Jan. 6 Va. Tech 69, Duke 67 (OT) I talked about this one here. The bottom line is that Duke is going to have problems with any team with good guards and/or athletic wings and the Hokies have very good guards. With this loss by Duke, the ACC no longer has a clear #2…

With my holiday travels, I didn’t really get to see much basketball over the past couple of weeks. I’m just now starting to catch up to what I missed as we head into the meat of the ACC season (five conference games this weekend). Since I saw few of these games, my comments probably will…

We’re just now coming out exam period for most schools, so it’s been a pretty thin week of games. Teams either barely played or played weak teams, worried that their players wouldn’t be at their best. Do you think Dave Leitao wishes he had followed this prescription and stayed home instead of taking his team…

Last week, one of my readers (Professor Matt) sent me and then published a very interesting spreadsheet. He had calculated a set of temp-free statistics for all the ACC teams as of about a week ago. The gist of temp-free statistical analysis is that you can look at how efficient teams are on both offense…

Sometimes I miss a story and report on it a bit late. In this case, I’m waaaay late. This happened last March, but I just heard about it. You are probably aware of the occasional practice of college coaches hiring the fathers of big-time recruits as “assistant coaches.” It’s shady, but it happens. The most…

It’s been a while since I went through the ACC games, so I’ll be pretty brief on most of these. Wednesday, Nov. 22 Providence 73, BC 64 UVa 81, UNC Asheville 65 Gonzaga 82, UNC 74 UCLA 88, Ga. Tech 73 The first bad day of the ACC season, with three teams going down. The…