Without even doing much of anything, really, you could make an argument that North Carolina further separated itself from the rest of the ACC over the weekend. The No. 3 Tar Heels coasted to an 83-60 victory against Boston College on Saturday. If anything, the 23-point margin of victory was less than most would have expected.
But look around the rest of the conference: Georgia Tech has been one of the worst teams in the ACC and has lost this season against Mercer and Fordham. But the Yellow Jackets gave Duke all it could handle in Atlanta. Florida State, which many thought would be one of the best teams in the ACC, lost by 20 at Clemson, which hasn't played well all season. And Virginia, off to its best start since the Ralph Sampson era, barely held on for a 52-51 victory at home against Miami.
Parity has been the norm in the ACC for a while now and the league’s coaches have successfully attributed that to the fact that there have been lots of good teams with good players. But that explanation won't hold up this season. Let’s face it: Some of the conference’s teams have been awful. Georgia Tech loses to Mercer and Fordham, but has a chance to beat Duke? Clemson loses to a bad Hawaii team, and a bad South Carolina team, among others, but beats Florida State by 20?
After one weekend of ACC play, you have to be even more convinced than you might have been before that UNC should dominate the league. The question isn’t when the Tar Heels might lose, but when they might fail to win an ACC game by double-digits.
-- Andrew Carter
Monday, January 9, 2012
Tar Heels widen gap on rest of ACC
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Typical from the Chapel Hole Observer Observer...
You are dreaming andrew.That cupcake schedule will be haunting UNCheat very soon! Duke's nonconference schedule was the 5th toughest in the nation,so duke will know what it's like to be in a scrum on the road where the tarholes will fall apart and choke.Virginia's defense will keep them in every game and GT has glen rice,jr who can put up 40 on anyone.Can't wait until duke beats UNCheat 2 out of 3 again and wins the ACC tournament!!
Let's see now, if 4 or maybe 5 starters are sidelined for UNC then its possible that Duke might slip by UNC in overtime.
UNC beats a terrible BC team and that somehow widens the gap in the ACC? Sorry if that seems like a hollow argument. Let's wait a few weeks and see if anyone else can hang. UVa and Duke play each other next, so UNC will have at least one more team hanging with them after 2 ACC games, and this assumes that UNC wins their second in-conference match-up.
Tar Hole Observer at its finest...if you ever want to go from a 3rd-tier paper to the vaunted second tier, I suggest you leave your blinding and delusional ideologies at the door.
Yes Andrew, after 9 (yes, NINE) home games in a row against the likes of Nichols St, Monmouth, Elon, Evansville, App St......UNCheat looks unbeatable! Double digit victories from here on out! You said it, not me hahahahahaha
Headline would be more accurate if it read
"Rest of Acc sucks". As you stated, UNC didn't really do anything impressive last weekend.
"The question isn’t when the Tar Heels might lose, but when they might fail to win an ACC game by double-digits"...
(chuckle)...hehe..hahahaha....HAHAHA....BWWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA
COUGH! <90-57> COUGH!
"Tar Holes gap widened by Seminoles" Should be loose now!
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