ACC Morning Five: 11.07.11 Edition
Fox Sports Carolinas: Fox Sports‘ Andrew Jones offers a throwback list of the top ten players “capable of significantly enhancing their team’s fortunes.” I only call the list throwback because Jones...
View ArticleACC Preseason All-Conference Teams
Now that our individual team previews are done, it’s time to look at individual players. With only five all-ACC selections from last season returning there are plenty of open spots to fill, so here are...
View ArticleACC Morning Five: 11.25.11 Edition
Grantland: Shane Ryan’s post about Duke‘s developing guard play is very interesting to read knowing the result of the Maui championship game against Kansas. Ryan breaks down Duke’s evisceration of...
View ArticleMatt Humphrey, Patrick Heckmann and the Identity of Boston College
Boston College does not have a good team this year. It’s likely to get better as the year goes on, but any amount of improvement is still likely to find the Eagles in the basement of the ACC. This...
View ArticleChecking In On… the ACC
Matt Patton is the RTC correspondent for the ACC. Reader’s Take Take Our Poll Top Storylines ACC/Big 10 Challenge: I’m not sure we can call it a challenge this year, as the ACC was dismantled 8-4...
View ArticleACC Morning Five: 12.13.11 Edition
Eighteen years ago yesterday, Bobby Hurley left the Sacramento Kings’ arena after a relatively disappointing game. He was struck by a drunk driver, and “the impact threw Hurley’s Toyota 127 feet and...
View ArticleChecking In On… the ACC
Matt Patton is the RTC correspondent for the Atlantic Coast Conference. You can follow him on Twitter @rise_and_fire. Reader’s Take Take Our Poll Top Storylines Wake Forest’s Dynamic Duo: The Demon...
View ArticleThe Way Too Early ACC Freshmen Review
It’s been something of a down year for sensational ACC freshmen after last year’s excellent class. Still there have been some real gems, and though the Rookie of the Year Honor was pretty much wrapped...
View ArticleACC Season Wrap-Up and Tournament Preview
First, here’s a quick preview of the ACC Tournament. You can find the rest of the power rankings after the jump. The two Thursday games you should keep a close eye on are Clemson – Virginia Tech, and...
View ArticleACC Tournament: NC State Survives Boston College
Whatever the final score might say, Boston College was right with NC State until the last ten minutes. This is a story Eagles fans know well. Boston College showed its youth early. The Eagles started...
View ArticleACC Morning Five: 03.15.12 Edition
Tallahassee Democrat: This is a pretty cool article about the last time Florida State won a basketball championship. That was 1991 in the Metro Conference (the year before the school joined the ACC),...
View ArticleACC Summer Recess: Boston College Eagles
Over the next four weeks we’ll be taking a step back and looking at each team in the ACC to assess where each program — and the conference as a whole — stands before we totally turn our attention to...
View ArticleACC M5: 10.12.12 Edition
Chicago Tribune: (author’s Note: with Notre Dame joining the conference, it’s time to start including some midwestern media outlets) According to Brian Hamilton, there was mutual interest between the...
View ArticleACC Team Previews: Boston College Eagles
Throughout the preseason, the ACC microsite will release a preview for each of the 12 ACC teams. Today’s victim: Boston College. Boston College was bad last season. The Eagles lost nearly everything...
View ArticleACC Preseason Power Rankings
With all of the ACC previews behind us, it’s time to put everything together in our first ACC Power Rankings of the season. 1. Duke has all of the pieces to be a much better team than last year’s team....
View ArticleACC M5: 10.22.13 Edition
Backing the Pack: Is Virginia flying under the radar? Well, according to returning win shares, the Cavaliers are criminally underrated. The past two years, returning win shares has correctly picked...
View ArticleACC M5: 12.05.13 Edition
Raleigh News & Observer: The story of the night was North Carolina dismantling Michigan State in East Lansing. Roy Williams has owned the Spartans since taking the helm in Chapel Hill, and his...
View ArticleACC Preview: Boston College’s Burning Question
Last place or not last place? It’s not easy taking over a slumping program in a conference that just added three perennial Top 25 programs. It’s even harder when you can’t start until April and you...
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