NBA Draft coming up, and it's early, but still something to discuss in the slow sports season.

1)Duke
2)Clemson
3)UNC
4)NC State
5)GT
6)BC
7)FSU
8)Wake
9)Maryland
10)VT
11)UVA
12)Miami

Slightly State optimistic but reasonable considering who looks to be leaving. I had Wake and Maryland higher before they appear to be losing Teague and Vazquez for sure.

6/11/2009 1:19:39 AM

lol

i'd be THRILLED if we were above 8 at any point past the first few games of the acc season.

6/11/2009 1:29:51 AM

I'll be surprised if we finished in the top half of the conference, but I definitely can't see us at 4. Too many unknowns to really project but lowe needs to finish higher than 10th to be off the hot seat. One more year in the bottom 3 is one too many.

6/11/2009 1:31:02 AM

The ACC will be very weak next year so we could make a big jump

6/11/2009 3:01:46 AM

it's hard for me to believe that Duke will be number 1 at this point considering they lost their best player... but i guess they also get two pretty good guys, and have a lot of experience. still no proven point guard or big man though

UNC will be very talented upfront but who knows how good Larry Drew will be when asked to lead a team? wasn't impressed with him last year. they also don't really have anyone who's shown they can shoot the 3.

Clemson will probably be good, but it's Clemson. they will underachieve

Georgia Tech should probably be in the top 3 based on talent alone. if Jeff Teague comes back, Wake will probably be decent also.

State might be the most fun team to watch all year. who knows how good we will be but I can't wait to see how some of these new guys fit in. probably most excited about Howell

6/11/2009 3:55:39 AM

only slightly optimistic.

6/11/2009 7:19:43 AM

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"i'd be THRILLED if we were above 8 at any point past the first few games of the acc season."

6/11/2009 7:20:16 AM

here's a more realistic prediction:


1-11) Everyone else
12) NC State

6/11/2009 9:17:06 AM

BOATS BOATS BOATS

6/11/2009 9:38:01 AM

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"Slightly State optimistic"

6/11/2009 9:57:53 AM

Good Lord the conference is going to suck next year.

6/11/2009 4:58:02 PM

CUT IT LOOSE

6/11/2009 5:00:02 PM

We won't finish above 8th in the conference. We are going to be about the same if not a little worse next year than this year.

6/11/2009 5:35:49 PM

Put a solid 2 min of thinking into this list...

1) UNC - b/c every year ABC-ers say the Holes will have an off year... those fuckers reload and make us all look stupid...
2) Duke - b/c they still don't have a PG or big guy
3) Clemson - b/c they never live up to the hype
4) Wake - b/c they still have talent
5) GT - b/c Hewitt is still a terrible coach
6) BC - why not...
7) FSU - lost Toney Douglas
8) NC State - b/c we're NC State
9) Maryland - b/c I fucking hate the Twerps
10) Miami - b/c somebody had to go here
11) VT - b/c I was too lazy to figure out whether VT would improve this year
12) UVA - b/c they're fucking terrible (hence firing their coach)

6/11/2009 6:48:42 PM

^that's a pretty solid list, the only changes I would make would be to move BC down to the 9-11 range (the talent just isn't there), drop GT a few spots (Hewitt can't coach his way out of a cardboard box) and move VT up a few spots (they still have Jeff Allen and Delaney, they're going to be solid)

6/11/2009 7:00:24 PM

^^Switch the Techs and its more like it. Va Tech has been pretty solid since they joined. Like ^ said Delaney and Allen is a pretty good 1-2 punch. Delaney could be first team ACC this coming year with Lawson gone.

6/11/2009 11:27:30 PM

The conference will be pretty bad. Every team has major flaws. In order of my prediction:

1)Duke - No PG, no typical big man, not very athletic without Henderson.
2)Clemson - Undersized and young. Lost their best shooter. Athletic but very few good shooters.
3)UNC - Solid at the 4 and 5 positions with whoever they play there, but 0 experience at the 1 or 2. No proven ball handlers and no proven solid shooters.
4)NC State - We're NC State, shit happens. can be turnover prone, and doesn't often play defense. Talented, but most of the talent is young.
5)GT - Young, but very very talented. Biggest weakness is the coach.
6)BC - No proven answer at PG. No Rice.
7)FSU - Similar to BC.
8)Wake - Loses a lot of NBA talent and has a coach that I think is about as bad if not worse than Hewitt.
9)Maryland - Undersized and undertalented squad last year loses its PG and doesn't do any upgrading. Great Coach, but it'll be a bad season.
10)VT - Greenberg is overrated, and they aren't exactly that talented.
11)UVA - New coach = new system. It's hard to say they'll be much better than last year when they didn't have a GT good recruiting class to bring in talent
12)Miami - They were pretty bad most of last year and lose the best shooter Miami has ever known. Most people aren't exactly sold on Haith.

6/12/2009 6:03:10 AM

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"4)NC State - We're NC State, shit happens. can be turnover prone, and doesn't often play defense. Talented, but most of the talent is young. "

That completely contradicts putting them in 4th place.

However, this year should be interesting. Lowe no longer has any of Herb's recruits, so no more excuses. I am honestly thinking that we will finish around 10th or 11th. Just too young and inexperienced. And we get out coached in most of our games.

6/12/2009 7:44:32 AM

State will finish 10th, 11th, or 12th

SIDNEY LOWE SUCKS!!!!!

6/12/2009 12:00:08 PM

^looks like you put a lot of thought into that. your opinion matters.

6/12/2009 12:24:24 PM

UVA shold always be last

6/12/2009 2:31:57 PM

What the shit is this

6/12/2009 5:18:53 PM

i'm more interested in football rankings

6/12/2009 6:35:44 PM

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"1)Duke 2)Clemson 3)UNC 4)NC State 5)GT 6)BC 7)FSU 8)Wake 9)Maryland 10)VT 11)UVA"

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

thats some good shit

tell me another one...perhaps the one about how our football team is gonna win the acc championship, that's always a good one.

4th place. HA.

6/12/2009 9:58:27 PM

lo brown not enrolling until the fall means we go down a few notches

6/12/2009 10:53:35 PM

^^ sorry bigego that wasn't directed at you so much, i'm just becoming more and more pessimistic about our immediate BB prospects

6/13/2009 12:42:19 AM

heard a rumor that elliot williams may be leaving duke. if that happens they have nobody that can create their own shot.

6/13/2009 12:29:39 PM

but they would still finish higher in the standings than state

6/13/2009 12:34:02 PM

^^ old rumor and his dad already confirmed that it wasn't true... Duke's only gonna have 3 guards on their roster next year, he'll get all the playing time he wants

6/13/2009 12:36:44 PM

damn, the ACC is gonna be shit next year.

6/13/2009 1:20:21 PM

college basketball in general is gonna suck next year. Kansas and Kentucky should both be good, everyone else.. who knows.

6/13/2009 2:57:43 PM

Dont forget about Nova

especially since reynolds is coming back

6/13/2009 5:11:51 PM

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"sorry bigego that wasn't directed at you so much"

haha it's alright. I wouldn't be so optimistic if the ACC wasn't so fucking terrible for next year. I'll be surprised if we have 2 sweet 16 teams next year. I'll be even more surprised if more than 5 ACC teams make the tourney. We won't by any means be a great team, but neither will anyone in the ACC.

6/13/2009 10:24:13 PM

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"college basketball in general is gonna suck next year. Kansas and Kentucky should both be good, everyone else.. who knows."

Kansas, Michigan State, Kentucky, Nova, Texas, Washington, Louisville, and maybe Oklahoma will all be pretty good next year. The top tier or so of teams will be as strong or stronger than last year. The next tier is a big drop.

6/13/2009 10:28:59 PM

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"1)Duke"

who the fuck are you, Steve Spurrier???

6/14/2009 3:28:07 AM

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"8) NC State - b/c we're NC State"

This prediction suffers from a sense of realism

6/14/2009 3:59:38 AM

^^They return 4/5 starters (that'd be most in the conference) from the team that won the ACC title last year.

6/14/2009 6:19:01 AM

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"Kansas, Michigan State, Kentucky, Nova, Texas, Washington, Louisville, and maybe Oklahoma will all be pretty good next year. The top tier or so of teams will be as strong or stronger than last year. The next tier is a big drop."

That sucks. In theory, the parity should be increasing every year, assuming that competition is getting fiercer at the high school level and that a larger population has more super stars. Oh well.

6/14/2009 3:36:12 PM

guess williams dad is a liar...

6/24/2009 10:27:57 AM

well the ACC is really going to blow next year now

6/24/2009 11:10:57 AM

Elliot Williams is transferring form Duke.

Their only guards are now Scheyer and Nolan Smith. and a fifth year walkon.

6/24/2009 11:29:56 AM

1)Clemson
2)UNC
3)Maryland
4)NC State
5)GT
6)Duke
7)BC
8)FSU
9)Wake
10)VT
11)UVA
12)Miami

6/24/2009 10:09:23 PM

Why do you and others think that Virginia Tech is all of a sudden going to suck?

With Delaney and Allen, they might have the best 1-2 punch in the ACC now.

6/25/2009 12:43:42 AM

^Greenburg is a shitty coach, and the school has shitty basketball history.

6/26/2009 6:44:18 PM

Clemson has the shittiest basketball history in the ACC

6/26/2009 7:29:46 PM

^OP is a good coach, and is actually getting plenty of top talent into the system. Booker is also a better player than the previously mentioned VT players.

6/26/2009 7:33:59 PM

1) PACK
2-12) battle between the rest of ACC

6/27/2009 1:13:36 AM

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"OP is a good coach"

aha, I like how you talk shit about Greenberg and then praise Purnell even though they have almost the same exact record at their current schools (100-70 vs 94-70). Proof yet again that BigEgo doesn't actually know anything about college basketball.

6/27/2009 2:05:38 AM

i think it's more obvious that greenberg is a dick. as far as coaching i dunno, but he's probably perceived in a worse light than most

6/27/2009 2:37:30 AM

>>>

6/27/2009 9:34:08 AM