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ACC Weekend Review: 03.07.16 Edition

Brad Jenkins — Mon, 07 Mar 2016 19:13:57 +0000

The ACC regular season came to an end on Saturday, and despite persistent congestion at the top of the league standings for much of the campaign, we finished with an outright champion as North Carolina claimed its first regular season conference title since 2012. The Tar Heels collected this year’s title in a similar fashion to how they did so that season, beating archrival Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium after suffering an earlier crushing home loss to the Blue Devils. Miami was not able to tie the Tar Heels for the league’s top spot because of another poor showing on [...]

Notre Dame’s Explosive Offense Makes Them A Dangerous Team

Brad Jenkins (@bradjenk) — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 15:13:04 +0000

Last season, Notre Dame had the most successful run of Mike Brey‘s tenure in South Bend. The Irish finished third in the ACC with a 14-4 record, and then won the ACC Tournament in Greensboro by knocking off league stalwarts Duke and North Carolina on back-to-back nights. Then came an excellent NCAA Tournament run where they fell to an unbeaten Kentucky squad on the game’s final possession in a Regional final. That Irish team featured the second ranked offense in the country according to KenPom’s efficiency ratings, trailing only Wisconsin’s historically best offense. After losing its top two players from [...]

NCAA Preview: Boston College Eagles

nvr1983 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:54:27 +0000

Boston College (#7, Midwest, Minneapolis pod) vs. USC (#10) Fri., 3/20 at 7:20 PM Vegas Line: Boston College, +2

Thanks to Vegas Watch for providing these graphs that measure the moving average of a team’s spread (moving avg.) over time vs. the spread for each individual game (indiv). If a team’s moving average is higher than zero, then Vegas currently has a higher opinion of them than Pomeroy, and vice versa.

General Profile Location: Chestnut Hill, MA Conference: ACC, At-large Coach: Al Skinner, 232-148 08-09 Record: 22-11 (9-7 in the ACC) Last 12 Games: 7-5 Best Win: At UNC (when they were undefeated and “unbeatable”), 85-78 [...]