In Saturday\u2019s ACC Action, Boston College visits Louisville, Georgia Tech jets down to Miami, NC State and Florida State tangle in Tallahassee, Syracuse is at Pitt, Stanford checks in at Virginia, Cal is at Virginia Tech, Wake Forest buses down to UNC and Clemson visits Notre Dame.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t expect BC will have much of a chance at Louisville, with or without Mikel Brown. Shouldn\u2019t matter. However, if BC does win, Louisville officially has some problems.<\/p>\n
Georgia Tech and Miami is marginally more interesting, but we\u2019d still go with the \u2018Canes here. Did you realize Miami has an eight-game winning streak right now? Pretty tasty! Jai Lucas is getting it done.<\/p>\n
NC State and FSU is marginally more interesting if only to see which has more momentum: State\u2019s decline or Florida State\u2019s urge to overachieve.<\/p>\n
Syracuse and Pitt is interesting on a different level. Pitt is struggling to be a good team and falling short. They have their moments though. Meanwhile, the \u2018Cuse is adjusting to having Donnie Freeman back. He\u2019s a huge asset and we\u2019re not sure the Irish can defend him.<\/p>\n
In Charlottesville, the Cavs have more talent but Kyle Smith is a really smart coach and he appears to have gotten a great player with a huge competitive drive in Ebuka Okorie. In his last five games, Okorie has scored 32, 30, 7, 28 and 31. That\u2019s not normal for a freshman (the anomolous 7 came against Notre Dame). He\u2019s really been impressive. If Cameron Boozer is the ACC\u2019s best freshman, then Okorie is bucking for second best.<\/p>\n
We\u2019d rank Cal and Virginia Tech as a toss up but if you forced us to pick? The Hokies, narrowly.<\/p>\n
In Chapel Hill, UNC is trying to get over the loss to SMU and Wake really needs a big win. A loss here would drop them to 10-7 but a road win over a ranked team would be huge. Is UNC vulnerable? Not as vulnerable as they\u2019d be if they had won at SMU, but maybe. This team is pretty erratic. The Tar Heels have a big advantage up front, but they\u2019ve had that in every game.<\/p>\n
If you go back to December, tossing out SC Upstate, ETSU and ECU as irrelevant, here\u2019s what UNC has done: a 67-64 win over Kentucky, an 81-61 win over Georgetown, a 71-70 win over Ohio State, a 79-66 win over FSU and a 97-83 loss to SMU.<\/p>\n
Kentucky is having a dreadful season that has BBN in mutiny mode, Georgetown is mediocre, Ohio State is okay but not great, FSU pushed UNC more than we expected (Duke too, for that matter) and we\u2019ll see about SMU in person on Saturday.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re not saying this is a make-or-break season for Hubert Davis, but is the pressure still there?<\/p>\n
Finally, Clemson is reliably tough and Notre Dame is up and down and also missing their best player in Markus Burton. We\u2019ve mentioned on more than one occasion how much we respect Brad Brownell. It\u2019s possible that Micah Shrewsberry could emerge as his equal but he\u2019s not at this point, so we\u2019d take the Tigers not to tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Saturday\u2019s ACC Action, Boston College visits Louisville, Georgia Tech jets down to Miami, NC State and Florida…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4028,232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-113202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-acc","9":"tag-tallahassee","10":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","11":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}