🏀 ACC Men's Basketball - Week 9: 30 December 2024 - 5 January 2025

25 points in 7 minutes - wow!
While shooting 1/6 from 3

The Dead Cat Bounce! Also the “playing BC” adrenaline rush.

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The Miami adrenaline didn’t last…BC by 10.

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Pitt rallies in the second half to beat Cal at home, preserving one of the very few opportunities for a good win in conference play.

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At the first half under-8 timeout, Miami led BC 32-13.

They were outscored 65-36 the rest of the way, a 29 point swing.

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Louisville about to knock off UNC.

UNC just imploded last 3-4 minutes. Louisville played well in that stretch but most of it was UNC being dumb & sloppy.

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What happened with the Todd Golden story about stalking and photos and full-on deviancy and all that stuff? Was it swept under the rug like UVA did with Jeff Jones?

Just wondering because it seemed like a hot story and it’s gone away like Gary Condit the day before 9/11.

That’s an old school reference that some of you won’t understand, but the old heads will know.

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The investigation is still ongoing, I think, but the longer it goes with no word, I do wonder what’s up…

So who did kill Chandra Levy? Did I go my entire time in DC being vaguely scared by Rock Creek Park for no apparent reason?

And what is up with UNC? I thought that was maybe a top ten team? Maybe it was Bacot all along (as a good player, not Chandra Levy’s killer)

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Well, Golden said he was consulting a lawyer about a counter suit to make him sound really defiant.

The decision by the Florida admin to let him coach while investigation goes on is truly bizarre. Either clear him and let him coach or put him on leave until he’s cleared or otherwise. It’s a matter of student safety, allegedly, unless it’s not (in which case just clear him).

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Heard from a source that I really trust that all of the “pile on” women who made allegations have recanted and that the woman making the claim against Golden is well, maybe not being truthful. Surprised me because I though for sure that Golden was a creeper, which was a shame because Golden’s wife is very attractive, but was assured that there was good evidence in favor of the coach so the UF admin didn’t have cause to take action against Golden.

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Could be, but still begs the question: why don’t they come out and publicly close the investigation and clear his name?

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Best I can tell, Ham’s contract is up at the end of the season.

Maybe it’s a situation where the scope/extent of what he did isn’t as dramatic or serious as the initial report suggested but that there’s still enough that doesn’t make him look good. Ex: if he had an affair with a student (or attempted to have one) that went south and she retaliated, he probably wouldn’t get fired for it but I can’t imagine the administration would be fully behind him with a public ringing endorsement.

Who knows what happened but the initial report made me think that he did something wrong at minimum.

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Yeah, also have to consider the high bar for someone to report this through Title XI. There’s no real benefit and extraordinarily high personal cost. It’s a lengthy process (6-12 months). There’s also an undisclosed number of accusers.

Very possible that UF simply doesn’t want the inevitable push back from fans and players if they were to put him on admin leave for that length of time, regardless of the seriousness of accusations. That seems more likely than there being a determination made one way or the other already.

Saw this which was helpful:

The drones stole all the evidence

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I read that Markus Burton is available to play today. Will go through warmups to see if he’s ready to go.

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Burton is playing. I don’t think he started but he’s in there now, has 6 points.

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Who did ND lose other than Burton. They have been disappointing even with him out though that was a pretty big loss

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Carey Booth, who is currently out of the rotation for Illinois.