Sunday, March 15, 2009

ACC Tournament Final Recap:

Duke certainly came to play in the ACC Tournament final, knocking down a whole lot of 3s in what ended up being a fairly easy win against Florida State. When Scheyer, Henderson and Singler are all hitting 3s Duke is very tough to beat. They didn't even bother trying to go inside much against FSU's bigs and chose to light it up from outside. For Florida State, the big problem was a really long field goal drought that covered more than half the first half. They were trying to come from behind in the second, cut it to 6, but couldn't get any closer.
You've got to hand it to Duke. They raised their level of play against the best team they played in the tournament to capture their 17th ACC Title.

By the way, here's a sneak peek at the first round games for the ACC in the Big Dance (more analysis to follow):

North Carolina (1) vs. Radford (16) - Thursday in Greensboro, NC
Duke (2) vs. Binghamton (15) - Thursday in Greensboro, NC
Wake Forest (4) vs. Cleveland State (13) - Friday in Miami, FL
Florida State (5) vs. Wisconsin (12) - Friday in Boise, ID
Clemson (7) vs. Michigan (10) - Thursday in Kansas City, MO
Boston College (7) vs. Southern Cal (10) - Friday in Minneapolis, MN
Maryland (10) vs. California (7) - Thursday in Kansas City, MO

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Radford all the way! Back to Radford, that is.

I think Clemson and BC will both go down. One of them for sure, but I don't know which one.