🏀 ACC Basketball - February 2024

Seriously. What a dick.

I like Bell and Brown, but I’d be happy to have Copeland too (can’t go wrong with a Philadelphia guy).

Serious question but does Syracuse and NCSU have better players than UVa? Why are they able to score so freely

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DJ Horne is first team, all ACC. Period.

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Never seen an and one intentional foul.

Could be because the guys who can go get buckets play the most. Might be that simple. And then they are encouraged to go get buckets, early middle and late shot clock

I had it a few times in games I officiated

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Just me or has DJ Burns gained weight from last year? Rock on big fella either way.

He hasn’t been as good this year but he’s a massive human

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Not necessarily better, but more athletic which helps open up the floor.

They have better pure offensive players, yes, but Beeks for instance is a better overall player than anyone in either of those teams. But yeah they have multiple more. Bucket getters than we do.

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Nah, we are better than both teams overall any way you can look at it (efficiency metrics, conference record, whatever). Even just looking at offense, Syracuse has numbers close to ours per-possession for the season, and worse in conference play, and NCSU a little better for the season, but about exactly the same in conference play.

Syracuse pulls out the win after blowing their big half time lead. Fun game to watch.

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And a hat tip to @chavlicek15 the biggest advocate on the forum for the press, NC State used it effectively to help climb out of a 15-point halftime deficit.

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Watching Creighton UConn, the spacing and movement by both teams is fun.

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Just like UVA, Pitt just missing all of their shots against WF and down by 18 at the beginning of the 2nd half.

Yeah, Pitt being throughly outplayed. Wake also put 45 up in the first half after scoring 47 for the game against us Saturday

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Wake wins by 33. Does that end Pitt’s NCAAT hopes? They only have one quad-1 opportunity left (at Clemson).

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Theoretically, if Pitt won out (including a win at Clemson), they finish 21- 9… throw in a couple ACCT wins… yeah they could still get an at-large bid. But realistically, no, they’re not going to make it.

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Wake’s tourney case got a big boost though. They just jumped up to #21 in KenPom (he even favors them slightly to beat Duke at home) and should jump close to 30 in NET probably. Would be hard for the committee to leave out a team with those metrics.

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