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carmineabbatiello said:
Teams that suck a$$ forever and thus far are finally having a good season shouldn't throw stones.

Pitt won more Ncaa games 2 years ago then we won this century. Pitt was robbed a bid last year worse than we and Seton Hall were and had a 1st round NBA pick and have another 1st round pick this year. Let's see what happens this season. That Cuse big is a load.
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I love Lampkin. Played for Colorado last year and TCU before that.

However, Pitt pretty much stinks, Cuse is trash, and BC is flaming garbage.

That after the Stallings Error and the first couple of years of Capel suckitude that they have stumbled their way into respectability in a mediocre at best ACC is not exactly a claim to fame.
 
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lawmanfan said:
I love Lampkin. Played for Colorado last year and TCU before that.

However, Pitt pretty much stinks, Cuse is trash, and BC is flaming garbage.

That after the Stallings Error and the first couple of years of Capel suckitude that they have stumbled their way into respectability in a mediocre at best ACC is not exactly a claim to fame.
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Oh brother. Don't make me start looking up Acc Ncaa tournament results again.
 
Da**it - too late:

LAST YEAR last year Just LAST Year 2024:

ACC 12 and 5 .706
BE 10 and 2 .833
BIG 10 10 and 6 .625
The other 7 conferences worse than that.

So the Acc had the most wins of any conference and the second highest win percentage.

Imagine the nerve of a conference with Depaul and Seton Hall mocking Pitt, Cuse and BC.

Try salt, pepper and hot sauce. Your words will taste better.
 
Amaseinyourface said:
Off your guy Dent?
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Not at all. I just don’t see it happening if he was willing to return this year. He was already clearly an all Big East caliber talent.

I thought he would look for a bigger school for this season and maybe Jr., knowing he was gone, would steer him here to play in a similar style.
 
SJUWillRockNYC said:
Hubert can't coach for crap.

All that talent and yet only up 1pnt at home vs. BC at halftime.

My bad, just realized I posted that in the B.E thread.

Any mod can move it to the coll bball thread if they want.

Thanks.
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Hubert handling of the last minute with fouls to give and not allowing and BC to even inbound the ball a couple of times was fantastic as opposed to BC’s coach who had his team walk the ball up the court with time ticking seat before calling time out as they crossed mid court.

When Carolina got the ball back after another deflecting the ball on the inbounds play ball out of bounds off the BC (after Carolina deflected the ball out of bounds on the previous inbounds play) the play they drew up getting the last shot of regulation that RJ Davis hit the back Iron on a beyond the logo shot was brilliant.

It was a good game.
 
carmineabbatiello said:
Da**it - too late:

LAST YEAR last year Just LAST Year 2024:

ACC 12 and 5 .706
BE 10 and 2 .833
BIG 10 10 and 6 .625
The other 7 conferences worse than that.

So the Acc had the most wins of any conference and the second highest win percentage.

Imagine the nerve of a conference with Depaul and Seton Hall mocking Pitt, Cuse and BC.

Try salt, pepper and hot sauce. Your words will taste better.
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The NCAA tournament winning percentages are somewhat useful but also somewhat misleading. The ACC is a top heavy league and has been progressively so over the years. It used to have 4-5 excellent teams, then 3-4, then 2-3, and now it's down to 1. So when the top team(s) make deep runs it offsets the losses of the others that get eliminated early and also does not count the bulk of the league that wasn't good enough to make it. Most years the BE is putting about half the league in the tournament whereas the ACC is closer to a third.

My eyeball test says that if you merged the leagues this year Duke would be the best team, followed by Marquette and SJU, and then you could put UConn, Creighton, X, Louisville, and Clemson in a hat for the next tier. After that you'd get to Nova and Pitt, and then everyone else is garbage. Except that is half of the BE and three-quarters of the ACC.

KenPom (just grabbed it for one data point) doesn't entirely agree with me about the top end of the rankings but it does confirm that half of the ACC is terrible as opposed to two teams (less than 20%) of the BE.

So you can definitely make a case that the top third of the ACC is competitive with the top 80% of the BE, and I would agree that Duke is the best team of the lot.

But the bottom half to two-thirds of the ACC is absolute garbage.

Anyway sooner or later Clemson, FSU, UNC and NC State are going to the SEC, Pitt, Stanford, Cal and Louisville will be in the Big 12, and then the rest of the league will become the football division of the BE. At which point we will be on the same side!

KenPom rankings:
1. Duke
12. Marquette
18. SJU
25. Louisville
27. Clemson
32. Creighton
34. Pitt
36. UConn
38. UNC
47. Xavier
50. SMU
54. Villanova
69-76: FSU, Wake, Stanford, ND
77. Georgetown
83. Butler
87. Providence
100+: the rest of the ACC, Seton Hall and DePaul
 
Treasure Coast Johnny said:
Storr played 18 minutes, 0 points, 1 rebound, 1 assist, 2 fouls.
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Kansas’ has been without KJ Adams the last couple of games and yesterday used Storr off the bench as the 4 in a small lineup. He did not look good.

He has been “called out” by his coach (imagine that a Hall of Fame coach calling out a player) and ha had a miserable year on the court.

Should of stayed where he was at Wisconsin.
 
SJU85 said:
Kansas’ has been without KJ Adams the last couple of games and yesterday used Storr off the bench as the 4 in a small lineup. He did not look good.

He has been “called out” by his coach (imagine that a Hall of Fame coach calling out a player) and ha had a miserable year on the court.

Should have stayed where he was at Wisconsin.
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So Storr, “Madison Square Gardner” and Brandon Williams would not have taken us to the promised land? 😇
 
paultzman said:
So Storr, “Madison Square Gardner” and Brandon Williams would not have taken us to the promised land? 😇
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Due to injuries and suspension, Madison Square Gardner (Brandon Gardner) has only been in one game in two years while his High School teammate, the other Brandon is a non-medical redshirt this year and with the year Storr is having, I doubt they could lead us to the nearest corner.
 
Treasure Coast Johnny said:
They got 17k+ for this game. We should sell out next Saturday.
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Not good that they drew like this IMO. That’s two massive alumni bases in NYC for a single weekend game, but still.

We need to be super aggressive demanding more games at the Garden and more premier times.

Maybe DePaul at CA, but that’s it for league games. UConn, Nova, Creighton, and Marquette all on the weekend. 2 huge OOC opponents.
 
Woodson made some terrible and confusing decisions to close out that game. He stuck with the guys who got them on the 10-0 run. Then seems to be confused as to who he wanted on the floor. Brings back two guys including MGbako who were ice cold.

Two chances to inbound the ball after a TO and don’t execute a play to get a final shot. If he was our Coach we would be electrocuting him for his decisions.
 
sjc88 said:
Woodson made some terrible and confusing decisions to close out that game. He stuck with the guys who got them on the 10-0 run. Then seems to be confused as to who he wanted on the floor. Brings back two guys including MGbako who were ice cold.

Two chances to inbound the ball after a TO and don’t execute a play to get a final shot. If he was our Coach we would be electrocuting him for his decisions.
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Suspect they will dump him after season unless he pulls off miracle ending.
 
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