Photo by D.L. AndersonN.C. State’s Rodney Purvis, during a game against Duke earlier this month Roy Williams often has described himself by saying he’s been married to the same woman and owned the same golf putter for decades. Since coming back to Chapel Hill in 2003, Ol’ Roy has added the N.C. State men’s basketball […]
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Wear art thou, skilled Tar Heel frontcourt?
File photo by Jeremy M. LangeBig man Tyler Zeller has been difficult to replace. He’s seen here in a game against Kentucky during his freshman year. North Carolina took a big step toward rescuing its season last weekend with a victory over a Florida State, a win which felt like an upset, especially when one […]
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Game of the season? Duke at NC State
Every once in a while, a random search on the Internet—the place that made geeky cool—produces something truly wonderful. Today’s truly wonderful find is the Duke Blue Devils Basketball Statistical Database, a resource that has been available for nearly six years but that some ignorant people found only yesterday. Not only does the database have […]
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Commentary: ACC will struggle to get five bids
Here’s the good news: the start of the ACC men’s basketball regular season is finally here, with five games Saturday afternoon and another Sunday evening. Here’s the bad news: Just two of those games involve matchups between two teams in the national top 100, going by the Sagarin ratings. Those matchups are Miami (No. 26) […]
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Scrooge and Santa (On the Martin Report)
Well, we would have liked this last pre-Christmas blog posting to focus solely on the question of last-minute gifts for the ACC fan in your life. Unfortunately, the Martin Report came out yesterday, and, having actually read it, we are obliged to say something about it. If the idea of the Martin Report—at least this […]
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A brief history of the UNC-ECU basketball “rivalry”
Tomorrow at high noon, a hardwood matchup of historic proportions will tip-off in the Smith Center in Chapel Hill: the first-ever regular season basketball visit of the East Carolina Pirates to Chapel Hill to play the North Carolina Tar Heels. As you know doubt already know, the buzz and anticipation surrounding this game has the […]
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Why does the ACC basketball preseason last forever?
The 2012-13 college basketball season has now been going on for a month. Most league teams began play on Friday Nov. 9; tomorrow is Saturday, Dec. 8, and features 10 games involving conference teams. That’s right, 10 nonconference games on a Saturday, a month into the season. A look at the schedule reveals that this […]
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Could Wake Forest be the biggest loser in new, expanded ACC?
File photo by D.L. AndersonWake Forest soccer player Julian Valentin, after the Demon Deacons won the 2007 College Cup in Cary’s WakeMed Soccer Park. As expected, the ACC moved swiftly in the past week to replace Maryland. Louisville is in, and conference presidents almost certainly made the right choice in picking the Cardinals over UConn […]
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ESPN, the force that makes all that is solid melt into air
This week ESPN announced that it has won bidding rights to the four-team NCAA football “playoff” scheduled to begin in 2014. That’s a $5.6 billion deal over 12 years. Is it any coincidence that this week also revealed a significant difference between how print media and ESPN personalities covered the Maryland-to-Big Ten story? Take for […]
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Will N.C. State basketball return to its glory days?
It may be hard for the younger generation to understand, but it’s true: All across the Triangle there is a cohort of college basketball fans, aged roughly 45–55, who recall a hoops-watching adolescence in which N.C. State, not Duke or North Carolina, was the school that had won a national title in living memory. They […]
