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ACC Weekly Five: 07.11.12 Edition

KCarpenter — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:04:53 +0000

ESPN: Things aren’t getting any easier in Atlanta. Georgia Tech has already lost an incoming player to injury for the coming season. Corey Heyward, a local standout who recently spent a year at Hargrave Military Academy, suffered an ACL tear in his left knee that will likely keep him out of action for the 2012-13 season. Though Heyward expects to have surgery in the coming weeks, the standard recovery period for an ACL injury can be as long as a year – it’s doubtful that Tech will take a chance and bring him back too early. News & Observer: Continuing to [...]

Checking in on… the ACC

Brian Goodman — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:44:21 +0000

Matt Patton is the RTC correspondent for the ACC.

A Look Back

So I was wrong about the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The Big Ten won, 6-5 (thanks to a comeback victory for Purdue over Virginia Tech). The ACC sported wins from Duke, Virginia, Boston College, Wake Forest and Maryland. N.C. State, Clemson and North Carolina were totally embarrassed by Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois, respectively. If you’re keeping score at home, the predicted bottom of the ACC is better than the bottom of the Big Ten. Fantastic. Duke is now the only ACC team with fewer than [...]

The Week That Was: November 27 – December 3

rtmsf — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 14:39:21 +0000

David Ely is an RTC Contributor.

Introduction

LeBron James’ big return to Cleveland on Thursday night got TWTW thinking if something similar could ever happen in the college hoops world. Now obviously it would be tough/impossible to create the exact same circumstances surrounding James’ seven-year tenure in Cleveland, his love affair with the city and their subsequent breakup on national TV this past summer. First we’d have to end the NCAA’s policy that forces transfer players to sit out for a year, as that would let players move freely to and from teams in [...]