DaveSez

No. No, no, no. Evidently spurred on by coaches like Jim Boeheim (famous for bravely scheduling a brutal non-conference schedule full of home games against the likes of Cornell and Colgate), the NCAA is considering expanding the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, possibly to as many as 80 teams. Ridiculous. 64 (or 65) is a perfect…

Lacrosse has taken quite a beating the media over the last month or so, but while Duke’s canceled season is making all of the headlines, the rest of country is still playing. The NCAA tournament begins this weekend, and the ACC looks to have a good showing with the #1 and #2 seeds, Virginia and…

Herb Sendek had several quirks and one of them was repeating a few phrases over and over (repeatedly and redundantly. Again and again). One of those was his talk about creating an air-tight compartment. Well, what if old Herb had created one of those lock boxes (to quote another dazzling personality) around the local basketball…

Ken Pomeroy thinks that taller basketball players make better rebounders – and he has the numbers to prove it! I joke, but it’s actually an interesting post. Maybe I’m just a sucker for cool graphs.

I love the work of the guys at StateFans Nation. They have a great blog and they dig up some very interesting news and statistics. Always a great read. But there’s this thing. State fans have a reputation as being a bit, well, sensitive. Years of being their neighbors’ whipping boy has made them acutely…

I’ve linked to Gregg Doyel’s rants and I have linked to criticisms of NC State’s hiring of Sidney Lowe, but I can’t support Doyel’s hatchet job on State this time. He brings up a few good points, namely that State was probably the only top-100 program that would have even considered hiring Lowe, but his…

North Carolina and Ohio State’s remarkable basketball recruiting classes have gotten a lot of attention this year, and rightly so. But don’t sleep on Duke’s incoming talent. After McDonald’s All-American Lance Thomas picked the Devils last week, Duke now has a power class as well, with three top-twenty players plus #38, 7’2″ Brian Zoubek. With…

Eagle in Atlanta posted a very interesting table the other day showing a list of the number of players drafted by the NFL and the winning percentage for each ACC football team over the past four years. Obviously, the team he’s paying the most attention to is Boston College, and according to his numbers, Tom…

I think it’s fair to say that the ACC BasketBlog isn’t enamored of the Sidney Lowe hire. Ed makes some great points that I agree with on the issue of Lowe’s bogus attempt to get a degree now – 20-some years after his senior year at State (I’m not signing off on some of the…