54th Annual ACC Men's Basketball Tournament

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Tampa, Florida

If you are not near a TV, and outside the ACC market you will be able to view all the games at http://www.espn360.com

3/4/2007 7:46:18 PM

nvm, doesn't show up now

[Edited on March 4, 2007 at 7:47 PM. Reason : no clue what the problem was]

3/4/2007 7:47:11 PM

thanks for changing the text from "fag" blue

3/4/2007 7:47:28 PM

didn't mean it to come out like that

seperate state game thread coming up next hour

[Edited on March 4, 2007 at 7:50 PM. Reason : ]

3/4/2007 7:49:03 PM

GO GO CLEMSON!

3/4/2007 7:51:59 PM

10/10

3/4/2007 7:53:33 PM

great thread, will read again.

3/4/2007 7:57:48 PM

this is an outstanding thread, however, i do not agree with your shade of orange for clemson

3/4/2007 7:59:26 PM

im trying to make them readable

[Edited on March 4, 2007 at 8:00 PM. Reason : still tweaking]

3/4/2007 8:00:51 PM

purple for clemson?

3/4/2007 8:01:36 PM

do you have to pay for espn 360?
can I use an internet proxy?

3/4/2007 8:03:57 PM

for the championship week games, they claim its free, and i don't know about proxies, not unless you find a really fast one

^^ refresh the page, it looks orange to me, both in IE and FF, what are you using, i was tweaking it

[Edited on March 4, 2007 at 8:05 PM. Reason : ]

3/4/2007 8:04:46 PM

it looks better now, it was beigeish before

3/4/2007 8:07:24 PM

^^ I was mentioning purple as a suggestion if the orange didn't work. It looks good now though.

[Edited on March 4, 2007 at 8:09 PM. Reason : .]

3/4/2007 8:09:08 PM

Quote :

"this is an outstanding thread, however, i do not agree with your shade of orange for clemson "

GIVE ME ORANGE!!!!

3/4/2007 8:09:40 PM

ttt

3/4/2007 10:06:16 PM

Are going to have a thread for tourney predictions?

3/4/2007 11:30:34 PM

Quote :

"And thank god, all the games are in HD, finally. (Raycom too.) Yet, I never imagined being able to see the tournament in HD on Raycom and then seeing a game on ESPN2 and not being able to see it in HD. (Thanks TWC.)"

it hurts so much to watch raycom games in sd

and fuck twc with this non-hd espn2 and no espnu

3/4/2007 11:32:46 PM

sorry

3/5/2007 7:00:41 AM

^blasphemy

3/5/2007 7:09:51 AM

   	        North Carolina --
		  	         |
Clemson -----		         |- North Carolina --
	     |		         |		     |
	     |----- Florida St --		     |
	     |					     |
Florida St --					     |----- Maryland ----
						     |			 |
   	        Boston College --		     |			 |
		  	         |		     |			 |
Maryland ----			 |----- Maryland ----			 |
	     |			 |					 |
	     |----- Maryland ----					 |
	     |								 |
Miami -------								 |---- Virginia
									 |
   	             Virgina ----					 |
		  	         |					 |
Duke --------		         |----- Virginia ----			 |
	     |		         |		     |			 |
	     |------- NCSU ------		     |			 |
	     |					     |			 |
NCSU --------					     |----- Virginia ----
						     |
   	         Virginia Tech --		     |
		  	         |		     |
Georgia Tech 			 |-- Virginia Tech --
	     |			 |
	     |--- Georgia Tech --
	     |
Wake Forest -

3/5/2007 7:43:57 AM

the matchups are favorable for us to make a deep run

3/5/2007 8:18:33 AM

true... we CAN beat duke right now, it's just a matter of the players knowing that (im' sure Lowe will drill it into their heads this week, the whole "duke couldn't beat the tarheels" angle)...

It's UVA i'd be worried about... they beat us early in raleigh, and then knocked us around in charlottesville..

vt? well, we know we can beat them, but beating a team 3 times in one season is damned near impossible for anyone but a top-tier team...

3/5/2007 9:12:33 AM

maybe im just a downer, but i could realistically see us not winning another game this year.

i don't think we've played with any heart or emotion lately. it just seems like we've given up on the year and everyones just looking to next year.

maybe its just me thats given up on the year though.

[Edited on March 5, 2007 at 9:27 AM. Reason : df]

3/5/2007 9:26:04 AM

Maryland is really hot.....if they weren't playing in the first round, they'd be the pick to win.

Virginia: has the experienced guard play (and a really solid style of play now with leitao), but choked when it had a chance to take sole possession of the 1 spot.

Va tech: an enigma of a team, their success seems to always be determined by matchups. they match up really well with alot of teams, but not with others....their success depends on the matchups they draw.

BC: a solid team with what is probably the acc poy, but they just haven't been the same without sean williams (who was on his way to defensive poy until he was kicked to the curb).

Carowhina: more talent than any other team by far, but they seem to rely on the talent alone wayyy too much, when they come focused they're very hard to beat, if they don't, anyone can take them down (not to mention the fact that roy has repeteadly downplayed the importance of the acc tourney)

NCSU: we all know our stregnths and deficiencies....I'd love to see the magical run, but just don't see it happening. If we beat dook, we should be happy with any outcome after that.

that being said, i'd put my money on Virginia to win it all. I can see maryland and unc beating each other up in the semi's, and Virgina taking advantage of a fairly easy march to the finals.

[Edited on March 5, 2007 at 11:55 AM. Reason : .]

3/5/2007 11:43:53 AM

[Edited on March 5, 2007 at 11:57 AM. Reason : fixed]

3/5/2007 11:52:01 AM

^i sure didn't, thx.

3/5/2007 11:55:50 AM

no way virginia beats duke. vt could so i hope bc beats vt cuz duke has good chances against bc.

3/5/2007 1:13:56 PM

no way virginia beats duke? I think duke will win that game too but I wouldn't say "no way" about something that's already happened.

3/5/2007 1:36:40 PM

with virginia's guard play, they can beat anyone, and who says they'll even have to play dook?

[Edited on March 5, 2007 at 1:43 PM. Reason : pack over teh debils]

3/5/2007 1:42:42 PM

well sure. saying no way miami wins the whole thing would be wrong. theres a chance for everything but chances for some things are smaller than others. don't buy into uva just because they finished first. they played the easiest acc schedule and clemson by 1 ncstate and premaryland are the only games they've won away from home ALL SEASON.

and its gotten worse recently. their last games away from home

vt-lost by 30
miami- lost by 8
wake - lost by 6

3/5/2007 1:47:35 PM

^but show me an acc team this year that doesn't have major question marks. Carolina would be the other front runner for the tourney, but I think they and maryland will play a really tough, draining semi-final game, and VA will be there in the finals to take advantage.......

....anything could happen tho, and that's what make this time of year so interesting.

3/5/2007 1:55:56 PM

o ya because mighty uva after they easily get their biggest win away from home of the season against a team they beat on a circus shot won't have a problem breezing by possibly an even tougher matchup on saturday. cakewalk to the championship

and then by the time sunday rolls around unc/marylands 10 guys will be sooooo drained that both of uvas players will have a distinct advantage.

3/5/2007 2:07:13 PM

little known fact, we are tied for 2nd in the NCAA for consecutive Conference championships (back in the southern conference) with 6 in a row (record is 7)

3/5/2007 2:08:49 PM

^^commas, use them.

NEWSFLASH: Duke isn't that good this year.....we have a decent shot of beating them.

Damn, don't get so worked up, it's just a prediction.....who do you think will win it?

3/5/2007 2:26:42 PM

Whose bright idea was it to have the conference tournament in Tampa?

3/5/2007 2:28:27 PM

well you gotta satisfy the teams in florida somehow, the tournament has never even been in florida before

3/5/2007 3:55:45 PM

^yeah, they're going to rotate more to appease all the schools.....D.C held their first one a few years ago.

3/5/2007 4:01:52 PM

3/5/2007 4:15:29 PM

How are the tickets selling in FL?

Eventually, it'll become a money debate...there's no way the ACC can continue to float the Tournament without a guaranteed sellout.

3/5/2007 6:59:48 PM

charlotte is most ideal. greensboro would be nice if it was actually a nice city. it also gives the teams around here an advantage. atlanta and dc would be the best but it gives maryland and gt an unfair advantage.

3/5/2007 7:15:39 PM

very very nice thread, best I've seen yet!

3/5/2007 7:18:19 PM

god i wish they would never put it in atlanta again, that was shitty the way it was setup

3/5/2007 7:18:56 PM

correct, Atlanta is a football dome, not a basketball arena, and the portable sections which is what I was in were awful...but it was cool to see Jordan at my hotel....UNC is likely going to run away with it this year folks. Hansbrough is going to be protected by the officials all weekend, so everyone happy he got clocked need to be aware he's going to be getting 90% of the calls all weekend, especially in the last 8 minutes of every game (which might not be too different than the regular season).

3/5/2007 11:57:47 PM

any lines out for this yet?

3/5/2007 11:58:20 PM

[Edited on March 6, 2007 at 12:39 AM. Reason : .]

3/6/2007 12:29:33 AM

It's still really strange to see duke on the far left of the bracket to start out...i just hope it doesnt end up being duke and unc in the final game...all the fucking BS for the third time this season

3/6/2007 12:41:13 AM

FSU vs NCSU final, calling it now

3/6/2007 12:48:02 AM

time to skew!

http://www.theacc.com/ot/acc-06-fanpoll-main.html

3/6/2007 9:21:48 AM

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"the matchups are favorable for us to make a deep run"

wtf are you talking about?

we are 0-3 vs. our first two potential opponents.

3/6/2007 10:01:53 AM