This is a big week in ACC, NCAA basketball history.
(30 years ago yesterday) April 4, 1983
(20 years ago today) April 5, 1993
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First reported by the N&O’s Joe Giglio. Story here.
Not a good way to start the week for Wolfpack basketball. CJ Leslie is also officially gone.
In a move designed to make the ACC still “North Carolina centered” with the recent additions of Syracuse, Louisville, Notre Dame and Pittsburgh, the ACC has decided to add a fifth school from the state of North Carolina. East Carolina University will join the ACC as its 16th member. With some help from the North Carolina Legislature, the move will be expedited and the Pirates will begin ACC play starting next fall. The Pirates recently announced they would be joining the Big East, which will no longer be called The Big East. The conference to be named later is pretty much the equivalent of N’Sync without Justin Timberlake or Wham without George Michael.
NC State Juniors CJ Leslie and Lorenzo Brown are entering the NBA draft.
The state of North Carolina, along with California and Pennsylvania all have 5 teams in the NCAA Tournament. On the opposite end…Texas, Alabama, Georgia (host of the Final Four), and South Carolina have ZERO teams in the tourney. Congratulations to Miami. The 2013 ACC Tournament Champions. The Hurricanes won the regular season and the conference tournament. Teams from Florida have won the ACC Tournament two years in a row. It will be a much different look next year with the additions of Pitt, Syracuse and Notre Dame. On to the NCAAs. The ACC only got four bids to the tournament (the Atlantic 10 got 5 invites). Thought Maryland’s ACCT run might sneak them in. Virginia was left on the outside too. As ESPN’s Jay Bilas put it, this year the committee seemed to look more at who you lost to, instead of who you beat. Beating Duke, State, UNC, didnt help this year. Duke is the #2 seed in the Midwest Region. By far the toughest. Future ACC member Louisville is the #1 seed in this region and the number one overall seed. Duke vs Albany. Friday in Philadelphia at 12:15pm (CBS) Miami is the #2 seed in the East Region. First time a team has won the ACC regular season and tournament and NOT been a number one seed. Miami vs Pacific. Friday in Austin, TX at 2:10pm (TNT) North Carolina is the #8 seed in the South Region. This surprised some who had UNC as a possible #6 seed. They travel to Kansas City with a possible matchup against Kansas in the second round. The NCAA says they dont try to create story lines. Right. North Carolina vs Villanova. Friday in Kansas City at 7:20pm (TNT) NC State is the #8 Seed in the East Region. The Wolfpack will have a possible second game against top seeded Indiana. BTW, the ESPN 30for30 on the 83 NC State team was outstanding. NC State vs Temple. Friday in Dayton, Ohio at 1:40pm (TBS) The madness before the madness. Open thread for the week. No bottle throwing please.
Thursday Friday’s games Saturday’s games Championship
UPDATE: Laettner as expected won the Duke region, the three UNC players, Fox, Montross and Hansbrough, won their regions as well. Haters gonna hate. ESPN’s Grantland has a bracket contest of The Most Hated College Basketball Players of the Last 30 Years. As you can see Duke has its own Region, the other three are players from the 80′s, 90′s, and 00′s. UNC has one player in each of these regions, Rick Fox, Eric Montross and #1 seed in the 00′s Region, Tyler Hansbrough. You can vote here.
Just stopping in during the football off-season to post congrats to the outstanding Senior PG for the Hokies, Erick Green, who was named ACC Player of the Year today. A bright, bright spot in an otherwise dreadful season. I was personally happy to see that the crusty old NC media didn’t overlook his outstanding season. Read up here: http://www.theacc.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/031213aaa.html |
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