ACC Tournament Thoughts
- I was thirty seconds away from calling my aunt outside Charlotte, AIMing my VT ‘08 brother, and loading up the car for tomorrow’s game — if all those UNC fans had left disappointed (not to mention the Dookies from game 2!), they’d have dumped their tickets to the scalpers on the way out and made it very easy to score a finals ticket.
- What we’ve just provided the committee is a textbook case to demonstrate whether they weight the entire season evenly, or whether they care who’s hot going into the tournament. If it’s even, we lose: too many embarrassing out-of-conference losses in the first two months of the season to ignore, and not one decent win among them, while we were breaking in five (and, after the fall semester ended, six) freshmen. If it’s about who’s hot: we won five of our last seven, including a road loss to an RPI top-25 team in the last four seconds and a virtual road loss to the number 1 team in the country on an off-balance putback by the consensus national player of the year with 0.8 seconds to go.
- Malcolm Delaney is a stone-cold killer.
- After how much screaming I did at the referees during the VT@Clemson game, I couldn’t complain about this one.
- I can’t receive the Charlottesville VT radio network affiliate in my office due to interference from all the computers. So for Friday’s game against Miami, I wound up hooking up my USB TV tuner to my laptop and listening to the TV commentators without the benefit of the video. I knew the TV commentary could be inane, but I never realized quite how bad it was until then.
At worst, we’ll pull a home game and a very favorable seed in the NIT — and that’s a long way from how I thought we’d do this year. The best times are ahead for this Hokie nucleus.
15 March 2008 / 0 Comments / Tags: basketball, media