ACC BASKETBALL PREVIEW: Notre Dame
For 15 days leading up to the start of the college basketball season, ACC Insider Brett Friedlander takes a look at the league one team at time. Today, it’s Notre Dame… Read More »
View Article‘Near perfect’ Blue Devils provide reminder of how dangerous they can be
Whether it was out of revenge for an early loss in South Bend in which it squandered a 10-point halftime lead or a desire to “have a great Cameron Indoor moment,” as fellow freshman Justise Winslow...
View ArticleWho’s going, who’s coming and who’s staying in ACC basketball
Now that the dominoes have begun to fall, here is the silly season scorecard of ACC comings and goings since the end of the real college basketball season… Read More »
View ArticlePreseason co-Players of Year Paige, Brogdon lead ACC picks to Wooden Award...
The list, chosen by a poll of college basketball experts, includes two players each from North Carolina, Duke, Virginia and Notre Dame… Read More »
View ArticleUNC’s Paige leads ACC contingent on hoop award watch lists
North Carolina’s Marcus Paige, fresh off his triumphant 2015-16 debut against Maryland on Tuesday, heads a group of six ACC players named to the preseason watch list for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, the...
View ArticleDuke’s Allen, UNC’s Page and Johnson make Wooden Award Midseason 25
Duke’s Grayson Allen and the North Carolina duo of Marcus Paige and Brice Johnson are among the players named Wednesday to the Wooden Award Midseason Top 25… Read More »
View ArticleChanges among ACC players on midseason award watch list
Heading the Robertson Trophy list is North Carolina forward Brice Johnson, who replaces his teammate Marcus Paige from the preseason watch list. … Read More »
View ArticleFive questions to ponder before tipoff
ACC Insider Brett Friedlander takes a look ahead at this weekend's ACC basketball games and five key things to watch around the league… Read More »
View ArticleBEYOND THE ARC: A week of comebacks and bouncebacks
ACC Insider Brett Friedlander takes a look back a the good, the bad and the offbeat from the past week in the nation's premier college basketball conference… Read More »
View ArticleState’s Barber snubbed as a Cousy Award finalist
Statistically speaking, Cat Barber’s numbers are as good -- or in most cases, significantly better -- than all of the others that were selected as finalists for the Bob Cousy Award… Read More »
View ArticleNaismith Trophy recognizes Barber as one of nation’s best, even if his team...
The ACC’s leading scorer, snubbed by the Wooden and Bob Cousy Awards, was one of 35 players named Thursday to the midseason list for the Naismith Trophy, one of several honors recognizing the national...
View ArticleDuke’s Ingram ACC’s top rookie for fourth time this season
Brandon Ingram scored 25 points, including 18 straight for his team at one point midway through the game, while helping the Blue Devils to a dramatic 63-62 victory, a performance that helped him win...
View ArticleHandicapping the race for ACC Player of the Year
Where once N.C. State’s Cat Barber was the clear-cut frontrunner for the ACC’s Player of the Year Award, standout performances by the Blue Devils’ Grayson Allen, the Tar Heels’ Brice Johnson and...
View ArticleBrett’s All-ACC basketball, major awards ballot
Although I plan to wait until all the games are played before making my picks official, here is the ballot I plan to submit with short explanations for each of my choices… Read More »
View ArticleBEYOND THE ARC: Tar Heels back on top
5 POSITIVES 1, Chairmen of the boards: North Carolina pounded out an incredible 64-29 rebounding advantage at Duke on Saturday. Twenty-seven of the Tar Heels’ boards came on the offensive end, leading...
View ArticleUVA’s Brogdon wins ACC Player, Defensive Player of the Year
Brogdon was also named the ACC’s Defensive Player of the Year while Duke’s Brandon Ingram became the third straight Blue Devil to earn ACC Rookie of the Year honors.… Read More »
View ArticleCoaches validate media All-ACC, hoop award picks
When it comes to the selections for All-ACC and the league’s major basketball postseason awards, the two groups are nearly unanimous in their opinions… Read More »
View ArticleTar Heels look like a different team now that the postseason is here
Maybe the Tar Heels were simply biding their time, waiting for the right moment to start playing their best. It the past two days are any indication, coach Roy Williams’ team has flipped the proverbial...
View Article‘Paige of old’ makes UNC a much more dangerous team
The Tar Heel star looked more like his old self by going 5 for 9 from the floor and 4 of 7 from 3-point range to help his team to a 78-47 rout of Notre Dame in an ACC tournament semifinal at Verizon...
View ArticleFive questions to ponder before tipoff … NCAA first round edition
ACC Insider Brett Friedlander takes a look ahead five key things to watch from ACC teams during the opening round of the NCAA tournament… Read More »
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