While our attention will be on NC Central’s championship run, Syracuse also opens up their NCAA Tournament with a play-in game against Arizona State in Dayton tonight. With the Orange being among the last teams selected for the field of 68, many will try to turn tonight’s result into a validation or indictment of their… Read more »
Author: Ben Swain
College basketball scandal: Embrace corruption
You can’t search through sports Twitter these days without running into countless columns and think pieces on the college basketball scandal and the “corrupt NCAA”. Ever since Yahoo’s bombshell report last week that linked a handful of high profile players to alleged impermissible contact with agents, everyone has thoughts on how to fix college basketball…. Read more »
8 things: Duke’s still going to win the NCAA championship
1. Hi Is Duke definitely going to win the NCAA championship? No. Come on. Of course not. But we had to get you here somehow, and nothing pulls that off better than a headline saying that Duke is undoubtedly winning the NCAA championship. So what’s up? Thanks for stopping by. There’s some good stuff below… Read more »
Farmer’s AlmanACC: Hostess Cupcakes and the NCAAs
Do you guys remember when we were growing up and the teachers would bring in a TV cart so we could watch Duke vs. North Carolina during class? What do you mean they never played on a weekday during lunchtime? Isn’t that when the best rivalries are played? What ACC fans all DO remember about… Read more »
Farmer’s AlmanACC: It’s Virginia and everyone else
Man, a lot happened this weekend in ACC basketball. Let’s start with what Virginia beating Duke means for the Wahoos. It’s January 29th and Virginia has the ACC regular season race locked up. It’s over. With the tiebreaker over Duke, the Blue Devils would need the Cavs to drop 4 of their last 9 games in a… Read more »
8itorial: Is racism at the heart of NCAA accusations?
No one’s ever going to accuse me of being “woke”. I don’t look for conspiracies where there’s a logical explanation for something. I take most things at face value and remove emotion from most debates I find myself involved with. The only reason I’m including this disclaimer at all is because I don’t have any… Read more »
Duke’s Brotherhood strikes again with Zion Williamson
Internet sensation and 3rd ranked high school senior Zion Williamson shocked the college basketball world yesterday by passing on Clemson, North Carolina and Kentucky in order to join Duke’s unstoppable and ever-expanding “Brotherhood”. There’s a lot to unpack from that statement, so let’s break it down into digestible pieces: Zion williamson as a player As we’ve… Read more »
Duke beats intramural team in televised scrimmage
Who won? Not Pitt, that’s for sure. Duke won the game 87-52 for their most-lopsided ACC road win since 1999. How? In the first 3 minutes of the game, Duke shot 3-4 from the floor including (shockingly) 2-2 from three point range. During that same stretch, Pitt turned the ball over 3 times and the… Read more »