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Duke Most Consistent in Crazy ACC

By Jim Henry 2/07/2010 8:15 PM ET

Gary Williams figured it would take 10 Atlantic Coast Conference games before a league favorite emerged.

Williams, part-time soothsayer and full-time head coach, and his Maryland Terrapins solidified their grip on second place in the ACC with Sunday's 92-71 home victory over toothless North Carolina. The Terps play host to fourth-place Virginia Wednesday before heading to first-place Duke Saturday.

Go ahead and count 'em: That will be 10 conference games for Maryland by week's end.

"Our team is interesting," Williams said following the UNC victory.

"We were just in the locker room with the players. [Winning] was a great feeling obviously, but we weren't getting carried away. We know what is ahead of us. We'll enjoy this and just go from there."

The ACC continues to be a jumbled, entertaining mess.
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Kentucky's Rise to No. 1 Historic

By Knox Bardeen 1/25/2010 11:30 PM ET

John CalipariThe Associated Press announced their new Top 25 Poll on Monday and the Kentucky Wildcats (19-0) have taken over the top spot, earning every first place vote (65) possible.

Not only is Kentucky the only remaining unbeaten team in college basketball, but their placement at the top of this list is quite historic. Since its inception, only three teams -- UCLA (134), Duke (111) and North Carolina (105) -- have held the No. 1 spot more often the Wildcats (89).

Both Georgetown and Connecticut made huge strides in the rankings. The Hoyas jumped from No. 12 to No. 7 on wins against Pittsburgh and Rutgers, but lost Monday evening to Syracuse, 76-53. Connecticut leapt from No. 27 all the way to No. 19 after beating St. Johns and last week's No. 1 team, Texas.
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FSU Making Noise in Heated ACC Race

By Jim Henry 1/24/2010 5:55 PM ET

Ryan ReidTALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- When Florida State forward Ryan Reid (pictured) has a free moment he likes to sneak a peek at other collegiate basketball teams around the country.

There's top-ranked Texas, which has dropped consecutive games to Kansas State and Connecticut after opening 17-0. There's No. 2 Kentucky, which expects to return to the top of the Associated Press poll Monday for the first time since 2003. And, closer to home, there's No. 7 Duke, which wiped out an ugly memory from last season with a convincing road win over No. 17 Clemson on Saturday.

Reid and FSU, meanwhile, surely turned heads on Sunday with an exciting 68-66 victory over No. 19 Georgia Tech before a Civic Center crowd of 8,661 to further tighten an already crazy Atlantic Coast Conference race.
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Cavaliers, Tar Heels Represent New-Look ACC

By Jim Henry 1/17/2010 1:00 PM ET

Yes Virginia, it's true. And very cool, too. The Cavaliers are 3-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference for the first time since 1994-95, when they started 4-0.

And for those who hold the North Carolina Tar Heels close to their hearts, a group hug might be in order. Saturday's home loss to Georgia Tech marked the fifth time this season the Tar Heels faced a deficit of 18 points ore greater. Four of those occasions have come in the first half.

Life never seems easy -- but is always interesting -- for men's basketball teams along Tobacco Road.
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Dazzling Frosh Favors Playing Sweet 'Toon at Georgia Tech

By Chris Tomasson 1/08/2010 5:05 PM ET

Derrick FavorsATLANTA -- Let John Wall have all the pressure. Derrick Favors will just continue watching cartoons.

Wall, Kentucky's freshman point guard, is the consensus choice by scouts to be the No. 1 pick in June's NBA Draft while Georgia Tech freshman power forward Derrick Favors is the consensus No. 2 selection. But there's a world of difference between the two when it comes to hype.

Google "John Wall Kentucky basketball'' and you get 685,000 results. Google "Derrick Favors Georgia Tech basketball'' and it's 194,000.

"I don't really like all that pressure on me,'' Favors said recently in an interview with FanHouse. "So give him all the pressure. Let it stay like that. I don't need none of that. Just staying under the radar (is fine with Favors).''

But, if the pressure does build, what will Favors do?

"I watch cartoons just to get away from it,'' he said. "I grew up watching cartoons. When I was young, I didn't like any of the other shows that were on TV. Cartoons always just kept me happy and calm and made me feel good.''
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Why Some Surprises Aren't Shocking

By David Steele 11/20/2009 1:54 PM ET

John Calipari
The roll call of eye-popping scores began with the start of the college basketball season. And there's a chance they won't slow down soon, for an important reason: this time, the names on the front of the jerseys tell less of a story than the names on the back.

The opening week's finals look like someone's idea of a joke. The opening acts, in exhibition season, should have warned everybody: LeMoyne 82, Syracuse 79, and Georgia Tech 84, Indiana (Pa.) 76 in overtime. Then, when the games counted: Texas-San Antonio 62, Iowa 50. Cornell 71, Alabama 67. Wofford 60, Georgia 57. Rider 88, Mississippi State 74. Cal State-Fullerton 68, UCLA 65 in two overtimes.

None of that includes Kentucky 72, Miami of Ohio 70, in Game Two of the John Calipari Era in Lexington; if not for freshman John Wall's heroics in, literally, the final second, that era would have been a carbon-copy of the start of the now-infamous Billy Gillispie Era (loss at home to Gardner-Webb in his second game).
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ACC Players, Coaches Wag Finger at New Taunting Rule

By David Steele 10/25/2009 10:30 PM ET

ACC referee Karl HessGREENSBORO, N.C. -- The talk of the Atlantic Coast Conference's basketball media day Sunday was the trouble a player could get into if he talked too much.

Or said the wrong thing, or gestured the wrong way, or celebrated excessively, or did anything else that might be considered "unsporting behavior,'' according to a new zero-tolerance policy approved for this season by the NCAA.

Many of the players and coaches gathered at Greensboro's Grandover Resort bluntly said they either did not like the change, didn't understand why it was necessary, or both. The biggest issue: there is too much room left for the wrong interpretation.
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Hewitt on Latest Scandal: Not All Coaches Guilty by Implication

By Terence Moore 5/28/2009 10:30 PM ET

Thank goodness for Georgia Tech basketball coach Paul Hewitt, a historically gifted recruiter who has been allergic to scandal. He represents a segment of his profession that could squeeze inside a foul lane.

Duplicity and college basketball are now one. I mean, if you name a program that has acquired a bigger-than-life player in recent years (Memphis and Southern Cal come to mind), it's like this: The odds are greater than Dick Vitale screaming into a microphone that such a program is destined for the NCAA slammer.

Hewitt disagrees. For one, he is high profile as president of the Black Coaches and Administrators and as a veteran of the Atlantic Coast Conference. So if he decided to shove a few of his peers under the bus, others would roll the wheels back and forth across his tongue.
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Georgia Tech Takes Down Wake Forest

By Chas Rich 1/31/2009 2:43 PM ET

The Georgia Tech Yellowjackets are without a doubt the best team in the country with a 1-6 conference record. They lost to NC State and BC in overtime and Maryland by seven. They have come close, but failed to seal the deal in close games. That changed today in a significant way. The Yellowjackets took down Wake Forest in Atlanta 76-74.

Wake Forest just could not keep Georgia Tech out of the lane, other than continually fouling. The Yellow Jacket's penetration really bothered the Demon Deacons, allowing GT to keep it close despite being not shooting as well and a dismal 3-for-18 from behind the arc.
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John Wall Won't Be Swayed By Derrick Favors' Decision to Attend Georgia Tech

By Will Brinson 1/15/2009 11:20 PM ET

Derrick Favors and John Wall are the top two recruits in the nation -- Favors, as we mentioned yesterday, was rated number one by Scouts and Wall has been listed as Rivals number one overall prospect.

Favors is now off the board, having committed to be a Yellow Jacket for one year his college career. Wall, meanwhile, remains on the market, so to speak, but there's good news for the teams (Baylor, Duke, N.C. State, Memphis mainly; Kansas, Oregon and Miami are also in consideration) currently pursuing the point guard.

He won't be swayed by Favors decision to attend Georgia Tech when making his decision.
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