i wasn't watching until ~4 mins left. what did bernard get ejected for?

3/1/2012 9:15:50 PM

One more uva loss and a va tech win for a bye!

3/1/2012 9:16:05 PM

kicking

3/1/2012 9:17:12 PM

bold = already happened
italics = fulfill the prophecy

I'm about to crank up the Sunshine Sidney Squad Glorified Gottfried Gang here with some motherfucking optimism blowing out your asshole.

Some people say they only want to face a team when its at their best. They don't want to face a team who is crippled by injuries or NCAA ineligibilites. We're not playing at a high enough level to afford that luxury, so I hope Reggie Johnson remains ineligible until Thursday. He is fun to watch, but we need any advantage we can get. We all know what happened in the 2-episode series finale of Blue Mountain State.

So let's say Gottfried tells the team the Gauntlet is over, that the Clemson loss was just jetlag from the USAir Rape Gauntlet turbulence, and convinces them to just go have some fun and play basketball. Wood gets a little confidence and knocks down a couple jumpers early. AJ remembers why he transferred to State instead of getting a part-time job while he finished grad school and continues to knock down some shots. CJ Williams realizes that his collegiate career could be ending soon and goes back to his level of play a month ago. Let's say we win and go to 8-7, controlling our own destiny against a now 8-7 Miami team over whom we hold the tiebreaker.

Fast forward to Thursday night. FSU at Virginia. FSU is on the road and UNC has probably beaten Maryland and Duke has most likely beaten Wake, even though they throttled BC on Saturday. FSU is mathematically eliminated from a top-2 seed in the ACC tournament, but they still want to get the best possible NCAA tournament seeding. In a battle of great defense and inconsistent offense versus an intentionally half-court paced team who would rather get back on defense than even try for an offensive rebound, FSU wins the game. Even if its as ugly as their two games this season against the Cavaliers' in-state rival Hokies, FSU has their eye on March.

We are 8-7 with 3rd place impossible to attain, but in a 3-way tie for 4th place and a 1st round bye. If we beat Virginia Tech, we finish ahead of Miami regardless of what they do. We don't control our own fate completely though, as Virginia could beat Maryland and would hold the tiebreaker over the Wolfpack with identical 9-7 conference records. But we all know how well Maryland does to crush the post-season dreams of ACC foes. That alone could give our team the motivation for a late-NFL-playoff push style effort where you can only win your own game but you can hope for a little help, and a little help is just one game.

We get that help, we don't play until Friday. We don't get that help, we play Wake, BC, or GT, who we are a combined 5-1 against this season, on Thursday. It might be a longshot, but so was a Brooklyn kid coaching against a couple of the NBA's 50 All Time Greatest players and winning. We beat Michael Jordan and Ralph Sampson. We beat Clyde Drexler and Akeem Olajuwon. Why can't we beat Austin Rivers and John Henson?

3/1/2012 9:19:43 PM

haha, miller (not) choking.

3/1/2012 9:20:50 PM

yeah but Miller said the Cavs Knicks choked since Miller was knocking down the shots

3/1/2012 9:33:14 PM

i don't understand how virginia tech has made any of their last second shots this season... they've pissed away so many opportunities at the end of the games i've watched

3/1/2012 11:01:14 PM

Things just got more compliicated. Now Clemson must lose at FSU.

3/1/2012 11:12:27 PM

Yeah we really needed to beat Clemson

3/1/2012 11:25:05 PM

or UVA...or GT...or duke...

3/1/2012 11:53:49 PM

If all the 8-7 teams win their next game, it would be

#4 UVA (3-1)
#5 Clemson (2-2, 1-0 vs ncsu)
#6 NCSU (2-2)
#7 Miami (1-3)

with the parenthesis being the record against the 8-7 teams.

So really we can still finish from 4th to 7th

[Edited on March 2, 2012 at 12:02 AM. Reason : someone should start an ACC tourny thread]

3/2/2012 12:02:20 AM

Butler beat wright state yesterday.

Julius Mays was by far wright state's best player

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/teams/wbj/stats

Also newcomer of the year

http://www.daytondailynews.com/dayton-sports/wright-state-university-raiders/mays-named-newcomer-of-the-year-n-horizon-league-1335255.html

3/2/2012 12:55:17 AM

Gregg "Asshole" Marshall is also their coach, he'll probably get more interest in UCLA's job than Gott, fwiw

3/2/2012 1:30:08 AM

are you thinking of wichita state?

3/2/2012 1:44:10 AM

oh yeah, whoops

Wright State, Wichita State, both are W. State

3/2/2012 1:50:13 AM

as long as Miami beats BC, we only need Maryland to beat UVA to obtain the 4th seed. The FSU/Clemson game would become moot at that point.

So we are rooting hard for Maryland and Miami wins come this weekend!

3/2/2012 1:55:19 AM

Miami will beat BC

UVA losing to UMD isn't likely

3/2/2012 2:18:00 AM

^yeah, UVA beat them by 20+ just a couple weeks ago.

3/2/2012 2:23:03 AM

that game was actually close at the half

then turdgeon put together an awesome second half game plan and scored like 10 points

3/2/2012 8:22:34 AM

This is the ACC guys, come on. On any given night...a shitty team can win. We won games under Sidney Lowe.

3/2/2012 8:37:39 AM

Everyone knows we'll probably lay a major turd against VT anyway, in typical NC State fashion.

3/2/2012 8:41:51 AM

Quote :

" he'll probably get more interest in UCLA's job than Gott, fwiw"

damn, hadn't even thought about that. Gottfried would probably take that job if it opened down the road.

[Edited on March 2, 2012 at 9:42 AM. Reason : ]

3/2/2012 9:41:40 AM

Ty Walker suspended from WF for the remainder of the season. Like it matters.

http://www.wralsportsfan.com/colleges/story/10805481/

3/2/2012 3:55:09 PM

was looking at Bracketology and he has the best Pac-12 team as a 10 seed, I knew they were bad but didn't realize they had become the level of a mid-major conference

3/2/2012 10:56:53 PM

Funny to see all these Duke fans pushing "go to hell carolina"

3/3/2012 11:52:14 AM

so, do we pull for Duke tonight, or do we just hope the stadium finally implodes?

3/3/2012 12:44:57 PM

It's a stupid overrated rivalry anyways.

3/3/2012 12:56:05 PM

Asheville just won the Big South and will be in the tournament.

3/3/2012 2:13:50 PM

Maybe if espn tells me how exciting tonight's game is gonna be one more time I'll actually get excited.

3/3/2012 2:24:22 PM

I'll unfortunately be watching it with Duke fans

3/3/2012 2:32:31 PM

Tennessee State is about to burst our bubble

3/3/2012 3:30:43 PM

WTF #9 Murray St. get yo shit together!

3/3/2012 3:42:09 PM

murray st down 4 with 3:30 left. we need them to win so their conference doesn't get 2 tourney teams.

3/3/2012 3:52:29 PM

edit

[Edited on March 3, 2012 at 3:54 PM. Reason : arkansas little rock]

3/3/2012 3:54:12 PM

tied game 45 sec left

Murray St by 2 with .3 left Tenn st has the ball under their basket

maybe .8 sec

good finish. go Racers!

[Edited on March 3, 2012 at 4:04 PM. Reason : d]

3/3/2012 3:59:49 PM

thank goodness they didn't blow that

3/3/2012 4:07:23 PM

3/3/2012 4:08:42 PM

FWIW, I thought I'd post Lunardi's most recent bubble teams here. I guess we'd like all of these teams to lose except for Texas, since we beat them.

Last Four In
South Florida
Texas
Colorado State
Northwestern
First Four Out
Xavier
VCU
Oregon
NC State
Next Four Out
Miami
Saint Joseph's
Dayton
Colorado

3/3/2012 4:26:59 PM

gregggggggg marshall chokes again

don't think it matters much to us as long as creighton wins the tourney

3/3/2012 4:49:43 PM

well, at least Erin Andrews is working the game

3/3/2012 7:06:03 PM

dude singing the national anthem looked uncomfortable since ESPN made him hold a 2nd microphone

lets go injuries!

3/3/2012 7:06:13 PM

Karl Hess, Roger Ayers

we wouldn't have a chance, lol



well, we see what DIckieV's prepared line was... something about 1986

[Edited on March 3, 2012 at 7:07 PM. Reason : ]

3/3/2012 7:06:59 PM

Quote :

"Karl Hess, Roger Ayers"

came to post this

3/3/2012 7:09:06 PM

Mike Eades too.....worst trio in ACC

3/3/2012 7:10:27 PM

Bull-ock is there

3/3/2012 7:11:05 PM

Come on you pieces of shit. Make a damn open shot

3/3/2012 7:14:55 PM

haha, no call on the flop, then call a questionable goaltend... K is livid

3/3/2012 7:15:39 PM

I'm not rooting for UNC, but I wouldn't be sad to see Duke get blown off the court

3/3/2012 7:17:00 PM

^ I would. I want no part of playing UNCheat in the ACC tourney. Give me a rematch against Duke all day

3/3/2012 7:17:50 PM

did Herb Sendek come up with the gameplan for this?

3/3/2012 7:19:00 PM