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    This Week in the ACC - 11/28-12/4

    Congrats to the state of Virginia for winning the ACC's only pre-conference tourney titles. Still not a lot of glimmers of good performance across the conference as a whole. ACC/B1G challenge is this week and we are underdogs in 10 of the 14; the B1G is favored by an average of 8.5 in their 10 favorite games - the ACC by an average of less than 6 in their 4. Woof. And then we get conference play beginning on the weekend.

    Monday
    [35]Virginia Tech (-12) hosts [154]Minnesota (7:00, ESPN2)
    [121]Pittsburgh (+9) at [46]Northwestern (9:00, ESPN2)

    Tuesday
    [49]NC State (-21) hosts [311]William & Mary (7:00, ACCNX)
    [171]Louisville (+10) hosts [24]Maryland (7:00, ESPN2)
    [66]Clemson (+1) hosts [33]Penn State (7:00, ESPNU)
    [70]Syracuse (+9) at [22]Illinois (7:30, ESPN)
    [122]Georgia Tech (+14) at [23]Iowa (9:00, ESPN2/U)
    [76]Wake Forest (+7) at [40]Wisconsin (9:00, ESPN2/U)
    [5]Virginia (-5) at [53]Michigan (9:30, ESPN)

    Wednesday
    [20]Duke (-3) hosts [19]Ohio State (7:15, ESPN)
    [164]Florida State (+14) hosts [7]Purdue (7:15, ESPN2)
    [44]Miami (-3) hosts [36]Rutgers (7:15, ESPNU)
    [21]North Carolina (+6) at [11]Indiana (9:15, ESPN)
    [78]Notre Dame (+2) hosts [30]Michigan State (9:15, ESPN2)
    [107]Boston College (+3) at [111]Nebraska (9:15, ESPNU)

    Thursday is dark

    Friday
    [66]Clemson (-4) hosts [76]Wake Forest (7:00, ACCNX)
    [49]NC State (-10) hosts [121]Pittsburgh (7:00, ACCN)
    [122]Georgia Tech (-11) hosts [262]Northeastern (7:30, ACCNX)

    Saturday
    [78]Notre Dame (-2) hosts [70]Syracuse (12:00, ESPN2)
    [5]Virginia (-20) hosts [164]Florida State (2:00, ESPN2)
    [20]Duke (-13) hosts [107]Boston College (4:00, ACCN)

    Sunday
    [171]Louisville (+7) hosts [44]Miami (1:00, ACCN)
    [35]Virginia Tech (-1) hosts [21]North Carolina (3:00, ACCN)

    ACC Non-Conference: 67-34
    ACC v. Power 6: 9-18
    AAC: 1-2
    America East: 0-2
    ASUN: 6-2
    A-10: 5-2
    Big XII: 1-5
    Big East: 2-2
    Big South: 6-0
    Big Ten: 2-5
    CAA: 10-1
    CUSA: 1-0
    Horizon: 2-1
    Ivy: 1-0
    MAAC: 1-1
    MAC: 2-0
    MEAC: 4-0
    MWC: 1-0
    NEC: 2-0
    OVC: 2-0
    Pac-12: 2-2
    Patriot: 4-1
    SEC: 1-4
    Southern: 3-0
    Sun Belt: 3-2
    SWAC: 1-0
    WAC: 1-1
    WCC: 1-1
    Non-D1: 1-0
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    [5]Virginia
    [20]Duke
    [21]North Carolina
    [35]Virginia Tech
    [44]Miami
    [49]NC State
    [66]Clemson
    [70]Syracuse
    [76]Wake Forest
    [78]Notre Dame
    [107]Boston College
    [121]Pittsburgh
    [122]Georgia Tech
    [164]Florida State
    [171]Louisville


    Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75
    Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135
    Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 135-240
    Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353
    It's going to be difficult to find Q1 and Q2 wins this season. I can't remember the ACC ever have such a weak bottom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PackMan97 View Post
    [5]Virginia
    [20]Duke
    [21]North Carolina
    [35]Virginia Tech
    [44]Miami
    [49]NC State
    [66]Clemson
    [70]Syracuse
    [76]Wake Forest
    [78]Notre Dame
    [107]Boston College
    [121]Pittsburgh
    [122]Georgia Tech
    [164]Florida State
    [171]Louisville

    It's going to be difficult to find Q1 and Q2 wins this season. I can't remember the ACC ever have such a weak bottom.
    Eh, there are still a lot of Q1 and Q2 game opportunities for certain programs. Duke, for example, has a projected 9 more Q1 games and 5 more Q2 games still on their schedule, not including the ACC Tournament (which would add an opportunity for another 2-3 Q1/Q2 games to a top-4 seed. So of the 18 ACC games on our schedule, 12 are expected to be Q1 or Q2 games.

    It's definitely a down year in the conference though. Not exactly a great environment to build a resume. There are opportunities, but it's probably on paper the weakest of the P6.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CDu View Post
    Eh, there are still a lot of Q1 and Q2 game opportunities for certain programs. Duke, for example, has a projected 9 more Q1 games and 5 more Q2 games still on their schedule, not including the ACC Tournament (which would add an opportunity for another 2-3 Q1/Q2 games to a top-4 seed. So of the 18 ACC games on our schedule, 12 are expected to be Q1 or Q2 games.

    It's definitely a down year in the conference though. Not exactly a great environment to build a resume. There are opportunities, but it's probably on paper the weakest of the P6.
    Where did you find those numbers?

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    Quote Originally Posted by PackMan97 View Post
    Where did you find those numbers?
    Duke's page on Bart Torvik's site: https://barttorvik.com/team.php?year=2023&team=Duke

    Here's State's page: https://barttorvik.com/team.php?team=North+Carolina+St.

    They have a slightly weaker schedule in conference, so only 12 more Q1/Q2 games (8 more Q1, 4 more Q2), and only 10 of them in conference play.

    Obviously all of this is subject to change, but it will probably wind up being fairly close (some teams will move up while others will move down).

    The key is that a Q1 road game is a fairly low bar for a P6 school, and a Q2 road game is a REALLY low bar for a P6 school. If you don't have 6-8 Q1/Q2 road games, your conference is REALLY bad. 8 of Duke's 12 Q1/Q2 games are on the road. Their only 2 non-Q2 road games are @BC and @GT. And either of those could conceivably wind up a Q2 if those two teams improve a little bit.

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    I just realized that NC State isn't in the ACC/Big-10 challenge this year. That's too bad, as they have looked somewhat decent. Instead, Louisville and FSU get sacrificed to Purdue and Maryland. Obviously in this new era of college basketball it's hard to plan these matchups. But that's unfortunate scheduling.

    Hopefully the conference can shock everyone and outperform expectations. But right now it looks like a potential landslide: Big-10 is heavily favored (8+ point spread) in 5 contests, ACC just 1; Big-10 is decently favored (4-7 point favorites) in 2 more contests; ACC just 1. And there are 5 tossups (within 3 points either way), with the Big-10 being favored in 3 and the ACC in 2. Overall, the Big-10 is favored in 10 of the 14 matchups. Gonna need some surprisingly good conference mojo over the next few days.

    And definitely need VT to hold their end of the bargain tonight as the conference's only heavy favorite.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CDu View Post
    I just realized that NC State isn't in the ACC/Big-10 challenge this year.
    Typically the worst team(**) in the ACC is dropped from the challenge.

    **Looking at the previous season's results.

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    CHeats down to #18 in this week's AP poll, one spot below us. Has there ever been a bigger fall for a #1 team?

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    Didn’t see Pitt beating Northwestern by 26 on the road

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    Quote Originally Posted by Luke102452 View Post
    Didn’t see Pitt beating Northwestern by 26 on the road
    Should be a nice little boost to the ACC resume assuming it holds… goes to show you that it’s still really early and we still don’t have a full picture of how good teams are!
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    Quote Originally Posted by scottdude8 View Post
    Should be a nice little boost to the ACC resume assuming it holds… goes to show you that it’s still really early and we still don’t have a full picture of how good teams are!
    Same goes for Va Tech beating the Gophers. Every little bit helps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tommy View Post
    Same goes for Va Tech beating the Gophers. Every little bit helps.
    Did you, or anyone else, see the VT game? They seem to have become a favorite to challenge for top 3-4 in the ACC. A 10-pt win at home against Gophers seems a good, but not necessarily impressive, win. Anyone?

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    So ACC will be up 2-0 after tonight. I see 2 toss up games tomorrow, Virginia @ Michigan and Penn St. @ Clemson.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gumbomoop View Post
    Did you, or anyone else, see the VT game? They seem to have become a favorite to challenge for top 3-4 in the ACC. A 10-pt win at home against Gophers seems a good, but not necessarily impressive, win. Anyone?
    The Gophers are at 153 in KenPom, 4-3 overall with no wins against P6 teams. So no, not a particularly impressive win for the Hokies, but it sure beats a loss to them!

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    Quote Originally Posted by tommy View Post
    The Gophers are at 153 in KenPom, 4-3 overall with no wins against P6 teams. So no, not a particularly impressive win for the Hokies, but it sure beats a loss to them!
    Glad the Hokies won. Gladder still if they win their next game, Sun v. Heels in Blacksburg, for which they have the rest of the week to prepare. Hope they lose 2-3 times to Duke and make the NCAAT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tommy View Post
    The Gophers are at 153 in KenPom, 4-3 overall with no wins against P6 teams. So no, not a particularly impressive win for the Hokies, but it sure beats a loss to them!
    Yeah, a 10-point win is actually less than the spread.

    But Pitt beating Northwestern by 30 was surprisingly good!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gumbomoop View Post
    Did you, or anyone else, see the VT game? They seem to have become a favorite to challenge for top 3-4 in the ACC. A 10-pt win at home against Gophers seems a good, but not necessarily impressive, win. Anyone?
    Minnesota scored a bunch of points in the last minute or so to make the score respectable. The margin was around 17 for much of the 2nd half.

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    I’ll be surprised if any ACC team wins tonight in the challenge except Virginia - and I’m not too confident of that one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CDu View Post
    Yeah, a 10-point win is actually less than the spread.

    But Pitt beating Northwestern by 30 was surprisingly good!
    Capel over Collins. Neither coach should feel comfortable.

    GoDuke!

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    Quote Originally Posted by AGDukesky View Post
    I’ll be surprised if any ACC team wins tonight in the challenge except Virginia - and I’m not too confident of that one.
    At the risk of poking the collective bear: Even I think it will take a lot for Michigan to hang with Virginia tonight given how lethargic the Wolverine offense has looked of late against bad competition (so imagine what the Cavs will do). In my mind for the game to be competitive it would require multiple of the following things to happen/have happened:
    1) Major adjustments made over the past ~week (Michigan hasn't played since last Wednesday).
    2) Home court advantage plays an outsized role.
    3) Hunter Dickinson does a Zack Edey impression and just dominates.
    4) Michigan gets someone besides Jett Howard to hit consistently from beyond the arc.

    Could any/all of the above happen? Certainly. But given how much needs to go right for Michigan, I'd be feeling pretty good if I was a Virginia fan.
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