This Week in the ACC - 1/20-1/26
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UrinalCake
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Similar to the ND game - BC leads by 4 on the last possession and still manages to hand the game to the CHeats.
King of Defense
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This just in -- Virginia is not good.
Matches
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Even their uniforms suck. What’s with the too-small “Cavaliers”? They look like they shrank in the wash.
ChillinDuke
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FSU down 11 to Stanford with 7 to play. They're done. Safe to say we are down to 7 ACC teams still alive for the NCAAT.
Duke is a mortal lock. Louisville and Clemson still look quite safe, with some buffer.
Pitt righted the ship today on the road at Cuse, ending their 4-game skid.
SMU won at NC State after getting throttled at home versus Louisville. They have Cal and Stanford at home, then away at Va Tech. If they can win all three, they're probably squarely bubbled with some likely major matchups (for all involved) against Pitt and Wake after that.
UNC survived what would have been a potentially season defining loss at home against a bad BC team (Earl Grant just sucks). While I'm sure they are breathing a sigh of relief in Hell, just not the type of showing that breeds confidence. They're down to #36 in KP, their worst ranking of the year thus far.
Wake acquitted themselves nicely today against us, helped in part by our surprising visit to Antarctica. That said, they lost a major opportunity to proclaim themselves in the national conversation. They are at least up to #74, which is their highest rank since the 2nd week of the season and up from a trough of #105. They have Louisville and Pitt next (then Stanford), and they may need both of those to stay in the conversation (they are dogs in all three of those, including Stanford).
It's still looking like a 3, maybe 4, bid league. If we get five, I'd say we should be thankful given some of the product on the court.
- Chillin
ETA: a note on Stanford. At #76 (and with a win pending against FSU that should move them slightly higher), they are quietly putting together a respectable first season in the ACC at 14-6, 6-3. The problem is, absent a win in Durham, they don't really have an opportunity for a meaningful couple wins to move them into bubble territory. Their other big game is at Louisville, but it's the final game of the regular season and the script will have been all but printed by then.
Duke is a mortal lock. Louisville and Clemson still look quite safe, with some buffer.
Pitt righted the ship today on the road at Cuse, ending their 4-game skid.
SMU won at NC State after getting throttled at home versus Louisville. They have Cal and Stanford at home, then away at Va Tech. If they can win all three, they're probably squarely bubbled with some likely major matchups (for all involved) against Pitt and Wake after that.
UNC survived what would have been a potentially season defining loss at home against a bad BC team (Earl Grant just sucks). While I'm sure they are breathing a sigh of relief in Hell, just not the type of showing that breeds confidence. They're down to #36 in KP, their worst ranking of the year thus far.
Wake acquitted themselves nicely today against us, helped in part by our surprising visit to Antarctica. That said, they lost a major opportunity to proclaim themselves in the national conversation. They are at least up to #74, which is their highest rank since the 2nd week of the season and up from a trough of #105. They have Louisville and Pitt next (then Stanford), and they may need both of those to stay in the conversation (they are dogs in all three of those, including Stanford).
It's still looking like a 3, maybe 4, bid league. If we get five, I'd say we should be thankful given some of the product on the court.
- Chillin
ETA: a note on Stanford. At #76 (and with a win pending against FSU that should move them slightly higher), they are quietly putting together a respectable first season in the ACC at 14-6, 6-3. The problem is, absent a win in Durham, they don't really have an opportunity for a meaningful couple wins to move them into bubble territory. Their other big game is at Louisville, but it's the final game of the regular season and the script will have been all but printed by then.
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SkyBrickey
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Louisville is 8-1 in the conference. They are favored in all their remaining games by at least 5 points. Torvik is projecting them to finish 17-3. We have to stay sharp. We are not a lock for a conference title. They could finish 19-1.
Edit: For kicks I did the Torvik math and Louie has a 12% chance to finish 19-1.
Edit: For kicks I did the Torvik math and Louie has a 12% chance to finish 19-1.
Oh man you're right.....cupcake city down the stretch.
The regular season title may yet be elusive.
Louisville has been playing great of late, but it's also one of the more unbalanced ACC schedules – in favor of the Ville – when you compare us side by side.
Duke's 5 Toughest ACC Games
- Louisville (Away)
- Clemson (Away)
- SMU (Away)
- Wake Forest (Away)
- Cheats (Away)
Louisville's 5 Toughest ACC Games
- Duke (Home)
- Clemson (Home)
- UNC (Home)
- Pitt (Away)
- Wake Forest (Home)