Part I: Duke, Virginia Tech, Florida State, Maryland
Part II: UNC, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami
Part III: N.C. State, Virginia, Boston College, Wake Forest
In the immediate aftermath of his fourth, and most unlikely national title, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski told Jim Nantz of CBS:
"It's hard for me to imagine that we're the national champions."
Funny, that's exactly what the people who watched Duke lose by double-digits to N.C. State and Georgetown were thinking.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia Tech offered Tyler Lewis a scholarship when the Statesville guard was in eighth grade. Lewis doesn't think he'll end playing college basketball for the Hokies, though.
"They picked up Marquis Rankin," said Lewis, who's one of the top point guards in the class of 2012. "He's a point guard in the class of 2011, so they really don't need one in the class of 2012."
GREENSBORO — Virginia, down by a run late, rallied in the bottom of the eighth inning and beat Boston College 6-4 in the first game of the ACC Baseball Championship at NewBridge Bank Park Wednesday.
The top-seeded Cavaliers (46-10) scored three runs on three hits and an error in the eighth inning to beat the No. 8-seeded Eagles (29-27).
If N.C. State's going to jump from the bottom of the ACC basketball standings to the top, the Wolfpack will have to do so against the toughest conference schedule.
The details — dates and order of opponents — have yet to be finalized, but under the three-year schedule rotation, the Wolfpack has two games each against Duke, Florida State and Clemson during the 2010-11 season, in addition to the annual home-and-home games with rivals North Carolina and Wake Forest.
At 5-11 in the ACC last season, N.C. State finished in 11th place. With
an influx of new talent — three five-star recruits — the Wolfpack is
expected to make a significant jump in coach Sidney Lowe's fifth season.
CHAPEL HILL -- Launching shots without much resistance, the North Carolina women's lacrosse team established control of its NCAA tournament quarterfinal game with Virginia on Saturday afternoon.
With overcast skies above Fetzer Field, the third-seeded Tar Heels owned quicker steps than the fourth-seeded Cavaliers, jumping to a 11-2 first-half lead after peppering their opponents with 15 shots, then closing out the game with a 17-7 victory.
North Carolina women's lacrosse coach Jenny Levy expects some sadness to cloud the atmosphere during Saturday's game against Virginia, considering the circumstances surrounding the death of Cavaliers' senior defender Yeardley Love.
Even so, she said the Cavs will arrive at Fetzer Field prepared for a physical, fast-paced lacrosse game.
In a column earlier this week, colleague Tom Sorensen wrote that the ACC needs to expand again and suggests West Virginia, Cincinnati and Louisville as targets.
Sorensen is right about 90 percent of the time, especially when
forecasting draft picks the Charlotte Bobcats should have made. As he
often mentions, he said in 2006 that the Bobcats should draft Brandon
Roy in 2006 and in 2005 that they should trade up to get Chris Paul.
Imagine how good the Bobcats would be if they'd followed Sorensen's
advice.
Virginia’s women’s lacrosse coach Julie Myers said today her team summoned as much emotional courage as possible to play in last Sunday’s first round of the NCAA tournament.
The team took the field last weekend for the first time since the death of Yeardley Love stunned the Charlottesville campus two weeks ago.
Continuing to grieve, the Cavaliers arrive in Chapel Hill Saturday to face No. 3-seeded North Carolina in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament. As they prepare for the game, the team tries to cope with the loss of their senior defender from Cockeysville, Md., who was allegedly murdered by a member of the men’s lacrosse team.
Defending NCAA champion Duke will play host to 2010 NCAA semifinalist Michigan State on Dec. 1 in the marquee matchup of the 2010 ACC/Big Ten Challenge, ESPN announced today.
North Carolina will visit Illinois on Nov. 30, and N.C. State will travel to Wisconsin on Dec. 1 in two of the Challenge's other key games. Game times and TV assignments on ESPN's family of networks will be announced at a later date.
Miami, which finished last in the ACC standings last season, is the lone team from the 12-school ACC that won't compete against the (for now) 11-school Big Ten in the Challenge.
The ACC starting lineups/rotations to mull over now that we know which players will be around for the 2010-11 season.
By the way, you read somewhere in March which players would be leaving and which would be staying. You might want to listen to that guy when the Summer Hoops Preview comes out in June.
Here's the list, in no particular order (wink):
