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From: chen@gitpyr.UUCP (Ray Chen)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hoops
Subject: Re: Predictabilty of the ACC?
Message-ID: <1541@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 03:24:07 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.1541
Posted: Thu Mar 13 03:24:07 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Mar-86 06:52:40 EST
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In article <1344@pucc-i>, afb@pucc-i (Michael Lewis) writes:
> In article <1497@gitpyr.UUCP>, chen@gitpyr.UUCP writes:
> > take the tournament??  And try to limit yourself to less than
> > 3 teams...
> > 
> > 	Ray Chen
> > 	gatech!gitpyr!chen
> 
> held in Chapel Hill, what with the new arena and all...therefore, my pick is
> North Carolina.  Wait, I feel confident on this one...that's my pick wherever
> it's being played.

Maryland knocked out North Carolina in the first round -- as in blew
them out the arena.  True, Carolina lost some people who were injured, but
the way UNC just fell apart towards the end and the MD was playing, I think
MD would have taken them anyway.  They almost beat Tech: the game went down
to the last second -- literally.

NC State (which I believe had the home field advantage) got knocked out by
a then lower-ranked Virginia in the first round.

Virginia came *this* close to beating Duke (and was ahead most of the
game).

And Duke beat Tech by 1 point in a final that was so even it was insane.
One of those games where you hate to see either team lose.

The ACC is predictable, huh?  I rest my case.

>      Answer me this perplexing question...what does the regular season mean if
> your conference has a tournament as well?  Do they actually play 14 games just
> to decide what the seedings are in the tournament?
> 
>      Michael Lewis @ Purdue University

Good question.  Tune up, I guess.  (And let us not forget TV money.
That was why Tech had to play 3 tough games in about 4 days -- one
of them totally meaningless as far as Tech was concerned -- against
Illinois.)  What happens in the Big East, SEC, etc. that also have
end-season tournaments?  Who gets the automatic bid to the NCAA?

	Ray Chen
	gatech!gitpyr!chen