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"I would almost rather see us go deep in the NIT.... dont get your hopes up on the NCAA, we can win the NIT..."

2/11/2008 12:01:18 PM

i'll worry about how deep we can go in the NIT once we make the NIT

until the acc tourney is over, we still have a chance to go dancing

2/11/2008 12:02:34 PM

^no doubt, i mean looking at the easy, predictable schedule for us ahead:


@ BC W 5-5
CLEM L 5-6
UNC L 5-7
@UVA W 6-7
FSU W 7-7
DUKE L 7-8
@WFU W 8-8
+tourney factors......very close

factor in that ACC play towards the end of the season never ends predictably.
we will upset one of the big three and get beat by a scrubber...

But you really cant say that we look like an NCAA team now, even if we should be close.
I will be at every home game waiting to see that happen if it does, will you?

2/11/2008 1:20:55 PM

There's no way that we will go 3-0 on the road and 1-3 at home the rest of the way. Home-court advantage means something in the ACC...

2/11/2008 2:45:05 PM

it means something for duke, unc, maryland, etc

for virginia, va tech, florida state, etc...not so much

2/11/2008 2:47:57 PM

^^^At Wake is by no means an easy win. I know we won there last year but our record in Winston is not that great. Plus we beat them by a tip in dunk at the buzzer at home.

2/12/2008 2:12:04 AM

Quote :

"1. Duke (22-1, 10-0 ACC, 2 RPI) — NCAA lock. 2. North Carolina (23-2, 8-2 ACC, 3 RPI) — NCAA lock. 3. Maryland (16-9, 6-4 ACC, 56 RPI) — looking good so far. 4. Clemson (17-6, 5-4 ACC, 24 RPI) — looking good so far. 5. N.C. State (15-8, 4-5 ACC, 48 RPI) — very, very close (considered among "last four teams out" in most projections). 6. Miami (16-7, 3-6 ACC, 40 RPI) — on the bubble; with strong RPI, an 8-8 ACC record likely would be enough. 7. Virginia Tech (14-10, 5-5 ACC, 82 RPI) — remaining road schedule (UNC, Maryland, Clemson) a huge hurdle. 8. Wake Forest (14-8, 4-5 ACC, 92 RPI) — modest strength of schedule will require more high-value victories. 9-12. Everyone else probably will need at least a 9-7 ACC record to receive serious at-large consideration. "

http://wral.com/sports/blogpost/2434425/

2/14/2008 3:37:07 PM

this is where losses to UNO and ECU kill us.

Part of me wants to say it would be bullshit if miami finished 8-8 and got in the NCAAT over us. The other part of me realizes they took care of business in their non-conference schedule and didn't lose to some bullshit teams.

2/14/2008 3:55:35 PM

Miami will not get in with a losing ACC record.

Teams schedule's from here in will be big and of course ours is the hardest.

[Edited on February 14, 2008 at 4:59 PM. Reason : ^Yep if we win those 2 we are 17-6 looking good]

2/14/2008 4:58:32 PM

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"The other part of me realizes they took care of business in their non-conference schedule and didn't lose to some bullshit teams."

i think luckily for us, the ACC is generally such a good basketball conference, that you could make up for some bad OOC losses with a couple good conference wins...we don't really have any GREAT conference wins yet but we're in a good enough conference where I think conference record is more important when determining who goes dancing than OOC schedule/record...unless you played Kanses, Memphis, etc and beat some of them

2/14/2008 5:05:47 PM

Winning the ACC Tourney

/thread

2/16/2008 5:04:46 PM

^

2/16/2008 5:05:17 PM

Winning the ACC Tourney

/thread

2/16/2008 5:11:41 PM

/thread

2/16/2008 5:17:10 PM

2/16/2008 5:30:09 PM

2/16/2008 5:31:29 PM

This thread could be about the NIT tourney now although I don't think that we are going to make it.

I don't see another win on our schedule unless we get lucky against Singletary.

2/16/2008 5:48:28 PM