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ACC Nation podcast April 7 - show notes
2008-04-08 02:52:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes Heather Dinich of ESPN.com discusses ACC spring football with the guys. She has the latest on North Carolina ’s quarterback battle, Florida State’s Jimbo Fisher, Ralph Friedgen’s decision to give up play calling at Maryland and more. Also, - more on North Carolina’s loss to Kansas, including a comment from ... More About: Eagles , Tigers , Football , Hurricanes
Miami?s Haith signs new deal
2008-04-07 19:45:00 University of Miami President Donna Shalala and incoming Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt announced today that head men’s basketball coach Frank Haith has signed a new five-year contract to run through the 2012-13 season. Terms of the contract were not released. “Frank Haith has done a tremendous job in elevating the men’s basketball program into one of ... More About: Hurricanes , Men , Hoops , Signs
Carolina faces questions after Kansas rout
2008-04-06 17:39:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com Billy Packer kept referring to it as three different periods and three different games. North Carolina won just one of those games and, unfortunately for the Tar Heels, they didn’t win that one in nearly the decisive fashion that Kansas won its two. The Jayhawks hammered Carolina from Darrell Arthur’s jumper eight seconds into the game until Cole ... More About: Questions , Faces , Men , Hoops
Alleva takes LSU job, leaves Duke
2008-04-05 03:51:00 Joe Alleva resigned from his post as Duke University?s director of athletics on Friday to accept a similar position at LSU. Alleva spent 32 total years at Duke, including the past 10 as the school?s athletics director. ?After deliberating with my family and several colleagues here at Duke, I have decided to accept the director of athletics ... More About: Tigers , Leaves
Hansbrough earns consensus National Player of the Year honors
2008-04-05 03:14:00 With his selection as the National Player of the Year by the Associated Press, The Sporting News and the USBWA, North Carolina ?s Tyler Hansbrough becomes the fourth Tar Heel and the 16th player from the Atlantic Coast Conference, since 1975, to be a consensus National Player of the Year. Since 1975, the ACC has produced ... More About: Men , Hoops
The Q Report
2008-04-04 02:56:00 Column by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com Slowly but surely both the men’s and women’s ACC basketball teams were trimmed like just so much fat from a side of beef in the NCAA, NIT, WNIT and CBI over the past few weeks. Wait, did I miss anything like an AAU tournament perhaps? The glory days of dominating college basketball ... More About: Women , North Carolina , Boston College , Miami , Virginia Tech
Dan Bonner gives his thoughts on the Final Four
2008-04-02 20:12:00 ACC Nation spoke with Dan Bonner, a college basketball analyst for both CBS and Raycom, this week on the podcast about the Final Four. UCLA and Memphis meet in the first game from San Antonio Saturday night, while North Carolina and Kansas meet in the second game. Bonner worked the first two rounds of the NCAA ... More About: Men , Hoops , Thoughts
More random thoughts from the outsider
2008-04-02 14:17:00 Column by Will Ojanen will@accnation.com We all know how the Player of the Year is a two horse race between Tyler Hansbrough of North Carolina and Michael Beasley of Kansas State. I think it was dead even through the regular season, but I think UNC’s run in the tournament will ultimately push Hansbrough ahead and earn him ... More About: Random Thoughts , Men , Hoops , Random , Thoughts
ACC Nation bracket update
2008-03-27 01:20:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com For you that are wondering how the ACC Nation bracket challenge is going, below is the top 10 with their first-round, second-round and total points and their Final Four teams and champion. I’m not certain who everyone is, but I do know that that Ben Allaire (Why is Lars always so sweaty?) ... More About: Men , Hoops , Update
ACC Nation podcast March 24 - show notes
2008-03-25 02:21:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes On the show this week we talk to the genius that is Penn Holderness. The NBC 17 sports director got around NCAA regulations about showing NCAA Tournament highlights by using dolls - that’s right, I said dolls - and we crawl inside his warped mind this week. ... More About: Tigers , North Carolina , Boston College , Miami , Virginia Tech
ACC Women?s Basketball
2008-03-24 17:59:00 Column by The Evil Q jim@accnation.com The clock is ticking away in Tampa as we watch team after team take their best shot at the ACC as they head toward the NCAA Women ’s Basketball Final Four. We’ll take a look at the WNIT as well. I’ve been on hiatus for the better part of last week but have “miraculously” found time ... More About: North Carolina , Boston College , Hoops
Duke and cover
2008-03-22 06:25:00 Column by Adam Lowenstein Special to ACCNation.com Fear was not one of the emotions that the Duke fans thought they would be feeling with less than a minute remaining in the game. Our beloved Blue Devils were trailing to a 15 seed! ?Who?? ?The Belmont Bruins?? ?Where?s that?? ?Nashville, Tennessee?? Duke had seen their 10-point lead evaporate and ... More About: Men , Hoops , Cover
McClinton?s 38 points leads Miami
2008-03-22 00:19:00 Story by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com Miami rallied from a five-point halftime deficit to advance to the second round of the NCAA Tournament with a 78-64 win over. Jack McClinton, Miami’s first-team All-ACC guard, scored 38 points to lead the Hurricanes. McClinton didn’t score until the 3:36 mark of the first half, but from that point forward he hit 12-of-16 shots, including ... More About: Men , Hoops , Leads , Points
Duke survives upset bid
2008-03-21 05:52:00 Story by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com It was almost a disastrous night for Duke , but the Blue Devils managed to hang on Thursday night and avoid a second-straight loss in the NCAA Tournament’s first round and what would have been only the fifth time in history a 15 seed beat a No. 2 seed. Gerald Henderson drove the lane and hit ... More About: Men , Hoops , Upset
Chalk picks for dummies
2008-03-21 02:38:00 We love Bookie Mom here at ACC Nation. And we think she loves us because we keep getting e-mails from here with cool videos. This time, Bookie Mom is making chalk picks. No, she’s really making picks with chalk. See for yourself. More About: You Tube , Dummies , Men , Hoops , Chalk
My NCAA Tournament bracket
2008-03-20 15:56:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com If you’re reading this before noon, there’s still time to get in on our bracket challenge. At the time of this writing we have 79 people - a record for ACC Nation - signed up, but there’s still room for more. Look at the top of the left-hand column for details. As for my ... More About: Miami , Men , Hoops , Duke , Clemson
Does Carolina have unfair advantage?
2008-03-19 04:15:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com Since what seems like November, reporters have been fascinated about what was, before Sunday, the possibility of North Carolina getting to play NCAA Tournament games in its own state until they lose or reach the Final Four, whichever comes first. Sunday evening it became reality when the Tar Heels got the No. ... More About: Men , Hoops , Unfair
Purnell receives contract extension
2008-03-18 19:40:00 Clemson head coach Oliver Purnell has agreed to a contract extension that runs through the 2013-14 season. Athletics director Terry Don Phillips made the announcement on Tuesday. Purnell is in his fifth season at the school and has led Clemson to postseason play each of the last four years, including a berth in the NCAA Tournament ... More About: Tigers , Men , Hoops , Clemson , Contract
The Q Report - What is the CBI?
2008-03-18 18:00:00 Yes, that’s the question that everyone seems to be asking these days. Some coaches won’t even open e-mails from the CBI, sports journalists all seem puzzled over how to get information on or about the CBI and fans are scratching their heads and asking, “What is the CBI”? CBI stands for College Basketball Invitational and is ... More About: Men , Hoops , Report , Virginia , Wahoos
Assessing the ACC?s chances
2008-03-17 17:00:00 Column by Will Ojanen will@accnation.com First off, I want to get this out of the way. Virginia Tech has no beef for not getting in. Trust me, I wanted to see them get in, but when you look at it, they didn’t deserve it. You can say, “They were close to beating UNC, and they beat Miami .” ... More About: World , Tigers , North Carolina , Hurricanes
Expand? You must be insane
2008-03-17 14:00:00 Column by Patrick Hite patrick@accnation.com In an interview with ESPN Sunday night, Virginia Tech’s Seth Greenberg made a point and Bobby Knight, ESPN’s most recent basketball analyst, agreed. Even The Evil Q is on board with their point, or so he said in a phone call to me Sunday night on my way home from Charlotte. Then, in the ... More About: Insane , Men , Hoops
ACC Nation podcast - March 17
2008-03-17 05:56:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes ACC Nation was in Charlotte, N.C., for the 2008 ACC Tournament and we have continuing coverage on this week’s podcast. Patrick Hite sat down with ACC commissioner John Swofford following North Carolina ’s win over Clemson Sunday. Swofford talked about the ACC Tournament’s future, including whether it will ... More About: Tigers , Hurricanes , Boston College , Miami
ACC Tournament - North Carolina vs. Clemson in-game blog
2008-03-16 15:40:00 We are at the 2008 ACC Tournament at Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, N.C., as we prepare to live blog the championship game between North Carolina and Clemson. This in-game blog, which you can join by posting in the comments section, is sponsored in part by the Student Book Store at the University of Virginia. The blog ... More About: Tigers , Men , Hoops , Blog
ACC Nation podcast - day three of the ACC Tournament
2008-03-16 00:41:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes The ACC Tournament championship game is set and it will be North Carolina vs. Clemson on Sunday. ACC Nation is in Charlotte and we have a recap of Saturday’s semifinal action. We’ve got press-conference audio from coaches and players. First up is Tyler Hansbrough on his last-second shot ... More About: Tigers , Virginia Tech , Men , Hoops
ACC Tournament - Duke vs. Clemson in-game blog
2008-03-15 20:49:00 We are at the 2008 ACC Tournament at Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, N.C., as we prepare to live blog the second game of today’s semifinals. This in-game blog, which you can join by posting in the comments section, is sponsored by the Student Book Store at the University of Virginia. Duke , the second-seeded team in the ... More About: Tigers , Men , Hoops , Blog
ACC Tournament - North Carolina vs. Virginia Tech in-game blog
2008-03-15 16:34:00 We are live at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, N.C., for Saturday action in the 2008 ACC Tournament. Join us for this in-game blog by putting your comments in this post. The blog is sponsored by Bojangles’. When you gotta wanna needa getta hava delicious, flavorful food?you gotta hava Bojangles?. We’re getting ready for semifinal Saturday. ... More About: North Carolina , Virginia Tech , Tech , Men , Hoops
ACC Nation podcast - day two of the 2008 ACC Tournament
2008-03-15 05:49:00 Click below to listen: Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes ACC Nation talks with David Glenn of the ACC Sports Journal. David talks about how the tournament has changed with the addition of three teams in the past few years, what North Carolina has to do to be a No. 1 seed in the East and Virginia ... More About: Eagles , Tigers , Boston College , Miami
ACC Tournament - Boston College vs. Clemson in-game blog
2008-03-15 02:22:00 We are at the 2008 ACC Tournament at Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, N.C. Friday concludes with a battle between No. 3 Clemson and No. 11 Boston College . This in-game blog, which you can join by posting in the comments section, is sponsored by the Student Book Store at the University of Virginia. Clemson is 10-6 in ... More About: Tigers , Boston College , Men
ACC Tournament - Georgia Tech vs. Duke in-game blog
2008-03-14 21:50:00 We are live at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena for the Friday evening session of the 2008 ACC Tournament. Join us for this in-game blog by posting in the comments section. This blog is sponsored by TicketCity.com, where you can get the best deals on NCAA Tournament tickets. The tournament’s second-seeded Duke Blue Devils will face No. 7 ... More About: Tech , Men , Hoops , Blog
ACC Tournament - Virginia Tech vs. Miami in-game blog
More articles from this author:2008-03-14 19:07:00 We are live at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, N.C., for the 2008 ACC Tournament. Join us for this in-game blog by putting your comments in this post. The blog is sponsored by Bojangles’. When you gotta wanna needa getta hava delicious, flavorful food?you gotta hava Bojangles?. We are getting ready for game two on Friday ... More About: Miami , Virginia Tech , Tech , Men , Hoops 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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