2015 Men's ACC Tournament Thread (ND ACC Champs)

[irishfan]

Begins on Tuesday the 10th. Seeds are below and bracket is here: http://raycomsports.com/sports_labs_docs/m-baskbl/2015_mbb_bracket.pdf

1) Virginia
2) Duke
3) Notre Dame
4) Louisville
5) North Carolina
6) Miami
7) NC State
8) Clemson
9) Pittsburgh
10) Florida State
11) Wake Forest
12) Boston College
13) Georgia Tech
14) Virginia Tech

 

[DonnieNarco]

ND-Miami will be a fun game. It will essentially be a win or your season is done situation for UM.

 

[irishfan]

http://raycomsports.com/sports_labs_docs/m-baskbl/2015_mbb_bracket.pdf

Official bracket.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Daily Word - ESPN

Andy Katz states that grant could lead us to the acc title and that if we were get to the semi finals and beat duke then we would be looking rly good at a second seed.

 

[irishfan]

Starts today! Boring games today, but can't wait for the Quarterfinals.

1:00 is #12 Boston College vs. #13 Georgia Tech
3:00 is #11 Wake Forest vs. #15 Virginia Tech.

Winner of WF/VT takes on Miami tomorrow night.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Starts today! Boring games today, but can't wait for the Quarterfinals.

1:00 is #12 Boston College vs. #13 Georgia Tech
3:00 is #11 Wake Forest vs. #15 Virginia Tech.

Winner of WF/VT takes on Miami tomorrow night.

Yup im getting excited. I honestly think wake or VT could give miami trouble but i also think miami is gonna give us trouble so hoping for an upset but not planning on it

 

[RDU Irish]

I am stoked that we play the late game Thursday! Only way I was going to be able to go was if it was late. Already had Friday lined up so we better win at least one!

Hoping NC State wins to play Duke. I think that would sap some energy out of the Blue Devils and hoping the young squad inexperience has them playing flat on Friday against us.

First thing first though, we HAVE to win our opening game if we want to secure a 3 seed in the NCAAs.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

I am stoked that we play the late game Thursday! Only way I was going to be able to go was if it was late. Already had Friday lined up so we better win at least one!

Hoping NC State wins to play Duke. I think that would sap some energy out of the Blue Devils and hoping the young squad inexperience has them playing flat on Friday against us.

First thing first though, we HAVE to win our opening game if we want to secure a 3 seed in the NCAAs.

Ya we defiantly need at least one win to probably solidify our 3 seed in the tourney assuming nothing crazy goes on in the other conference tourneys.

I wouldn't even rule out NC State beating duke (assuming they beat pitt). They beat them at beginning of the year and ya i know duke is a lot better then they were then but NC state could beat duke or give them trouble for sure.

 

[RDU Irish]

Duke is so young I am curious to see how they do playing back to back to back. Easy to see them looking past the first round or blow their wad and come out flat the next night.

Either way, they are the team to beat IMO. If they get beat it will be a huge resume boost for the team that does it while losing to them has little downside.

 

[Irish#1]

Duke is so young I am curious to see how they do playing back to back to back. Easy to see them looking past the first round or blow their wad and come out flat the next night.

Either way, they are the team to beat IMO. If they get beat it will be a huge resume boost for the team that does it while losing to them has little downside.

But they are coached by someone who handles youth as good as anyone.

 

[AgentJ]

this is a good test for the guys. if they can run the table they become the under the radar championship favorite.

a loss doesnt rule anything out, but beat miami, duke, uva and im all in.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

this is a good test for the guys. if they can run the table they become the under the radar championship favorite.

a loss doesnt rule anything out, but beat miami, duke, uva and im all in.

If we run the table i will literally shit myself. Sadly there's no way in hell we get a 1 seed so we would only get a 2 seed at best. I think we have a chance to run the table but its a slim one. We have to play lights out and shoot well. Every analyst that I've read or heard say we are very dangerous and can make a huge run in the tourney just as long as we don't go cold shooting.

 

[irishfan]

#12 BC takes down #13 Georgia Tech 66-65. BC will take on North Carolina tomorrow at 2:00. BC has now won 4 games in a row also.

 

[RDU Irish]

Okafor as league MVP is stupid. Kid has to sit the bench at the end of any close game b/c he shoots less than 50% from FT. Undoubtedly the #1 overall draft pick but he isn't the league MVP, even besides my predisposition to not even considering freshmen for the award.

 

[irishfan]

Okafor as league MVP is stupid. Kid has to sit the bench at the end of any close game b/c he shoots less than 50% from FT. Undoubtedly the #1 overall draft pick but he isn't the league MVP, even besides my predisposition to not even considering freshmen for the award.

Agreed. ND doesn't go .500 in the league with Grant. Duke would still be a Top-4 ACC team without Okafor.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Wow good win by VT

 

[irishfan]

#9 Florida State just took down #8 Clemson 76-73.

FSU plays Virginia tomorrow at noon.

 

[DillonHall]

this is a good test for the guys. if they can run the table they become the under the radar championship favorite.

a loss doesnt rule anything out, but beat miami, duke, uva and im all in.

I don't know if it'd be a good thing if we had to play that many games. We don't have much depth, and a lot of our guys have played heavy minutes throughout the season. We need to win our first game, but I'd be fine with a loss to Duke.

 

[irishfan]

#5 UNC took down #13 BC 81-63.

UNC plays Louisville tomorrow at 2:00.

 

[irishfan]

#7 NC State beat #10 Pitt 81-70 earlier tonight.

NC State takes on Duke tomorrow at 7:00. Should be an awesome game. NC State beat Duke by 12 earlier this season, and has won 6 of their last 7 including wins at UNC and at Louisvile.

 

[irishfan]

Also, #6 Miami is up 39-38 on #14 Va Tech with 7:56 left on ESPN. We play the winner tomorrow night.

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Should be a good game tomorrow. Nervous that Miami can match our guards but we can shoot better then them on most nights so and their gonna be tired probably.

 

[irishfan]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Miami.

9pm. Thursday.

<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotDoneYet?src=hash">#NotDoneYet</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ACCTourney?src=hash">#ACCTourney</a> <a href="http://t.co/jHNcTX35Y7">pic.twitter.com/jHNcTX35Y7</a></p>— Notre Dame MBB (@NDmbb) <a href="https://twitter.com/NDmbb/status/575863896860270592">March 12, 2015</a></blockquote>
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[KPENN]

Been watching the ACC tourney for a long time and this is about the worst I can remember. I wish they'd only bring the top 8 teams, leave the rest at home.

 

[irishfan]

Been watching the ACC tourney for a long time and this is about the worst I can remember. I wish they'd only bring the top 8 teams, leave the rest at home.

Agreed. It will be exciting tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday. Today and yesterday were pretty awful though. Pumped for the ACC/Big-12 both with the Quarterfinals tomorrow.

 

[KPENN]

Agreed. It will be exciting tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday. Today and yesterday were pretty awful though. Pumped for the ACC/Big-12 both with the Quarterfinals tomorrow.

Would love a friday/saturday/sunday format with the top 8 teams, but yes tomorrow should be fun. I love the weekend games where UNC fans will stick around and root against Duke and vice versa.

 

[irishfan]

Would love a friday/saturday/sunday format with the top 8 teams, but yes tomorrow should be fun. I love the weekend games where UNC fans will stick around and root against Duke and vice versa.

Agreed. I always liked the Sunday afternoon ACC Champ game. It will be fun to see the environment for these games and compare it to MSG. I pretty much tuned out the ACC Tourney last season after we got knocked out early.

Also, I really want us to make the Conf Champ game. We had so many painful losses in the Semis at MSG, I'd love for us to finally play in the Championship.

 

[Ignats]

Quick thoughts on this Miami matchup...

We went down 12 to Miami in the second half at home in January. Brey then rolled out the 5 guard lineup which essentially forced Jekiri out of the game and we caught fire from three. We had a poor shooting first 25-30 minutes but hit the shots we needed to. That was also the game that Auguste came back from his suspension and he didn't play much.

Miami is one of the few teams we actually don't have to worry too much about a big man beating us in the ACC. I look for DJ and Jerian's fresh legs to put some pressure on their guards and if we can keep the damage to McClellan scoring without Lacomte and Rodriguez getting hot we should pull it off. What scares me is this Miami team is the definition of hit or miss. If they're on, they can beat anyone in any environment (see win at Cameron). When they're off, which is more often than when all of their guards are on, they lose to teams like Eastern Kentucky at home by 28. I'll take the Jerian led ND squad tomorrow as long as we don't go ice cold.

 

[irishfan]

We're favored by 5 tonight. Game probably won't start until at least 9:45 which is annoying.

Other spreads:

12:00 Virginia (-13) vs. FSU
2:00 UNC (-2.5) vs. Louisville
7:00 Duke (-8) vs. NC State

 

[irishfan]

Virginia only up 44-39 on FSU with 6:43 left on ESPN.