Now we can start.
Thursday at the ACC Tournament was nice in a chicken salad kind of way. Not too heavy. Nothing to get all excited about. Nothing memorable.
Today is about steak and potatoes. And throw in a wedge of lettuce covered with really chunky blue cheese dressing.
Staff video by Travis Long, J.P. Giglio and Luke DeCock.
From Talking Points:
This N.C. State team was going to go as far as Brandon Costner, Courtney Fells and Ben McCauley could take it. In the end, it wasn’t very far.
State’s season may have ended with Thursday’s 74-69 first-round loss to Maryland, with the NCAA Tournament out of the question and an NIT bid very much in doubt.
Read more here.
Highlights and postgame press conference from the N.C. State and Maryland game in Atlanta.
ATLANTA — Mark Cacchione, a self-employed accountant from Raleigh, would have liked to have left the ACC Tournament with more numbers to crunch.
RBC Bank gave the 46-year-old a chance to win $1 million at halftime of the N.C. State-Maryland game in Thursday's first round. Cacchione was given five shots at progressive amounts. He missed all five, including a 7-footer for $10,000 and a free throw for $20,000.
Duke announced Thursday night that guard Nolan Smith is "probable" for Friday's ACC quarterfinal against Thursday's Boston College-Virginia winner.
Smith hasn't played since suffering a concussion when he ran into a David Neal screen at Maryland on Feb. 25, missing three games.
Check out what Luke DeCock has to say about Clemson's loss to Georgia Tech over on Talking Points.
Trevor Booker was one of the best players in the ACC this year, without question one of the top two forwards, but he’ll be kicking himself for missing two free throws at the end of Clemson’s first-round loss to Georgia Tech on Thursday.
Staff video by Travis Long, J.P. Giglio and Caulton Tudor.
Topic: Tudor and Joe break down N.C. State's first-round matchup with Maryland.
The 2009 ACC Tournament opened today with four first-round game in a Georgia Dome that was about 10,000 fans short of being sold out in Atlanta. Here's what ACC commissioner John Swofford had to say in an exclusive interview about the tournament, the ACC football championship and other topics.
Q: The tournament is not a sellout. On the other hand, the economy is in a difficult situation and you still get more revenue, I would presume (at the Georgia Dome) than you would in Greensboro. Can you break that down for me?
The ACC Tournament has started but the crowds haven't arrived in Atlanta yet. Luke and Joe talk about the impact of the economy and the site of the ... more
