In the end, it was one blue too many. Boston College came south with the attitude of Yankee carpetbaggers in 1866. They traveled into the belly of the ACC’s basketball beast in Greensboro looking to match Tech’s feat of winning a major championship their first year in the league. They came awfully close, too. Fredo [...]

It’s Tournament Time. Not that one the NCAA stages every year about this time, but, for many fans in this neck of the woods, an even bigger one. That would be the ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament. It remains the league’s premiere showcase and social event, at least until the nascent football championship gets its legs. [...]

The ACC’s regular season finally ground to a halt. With what has generally become an exhibition season as the media hacks drone on about ‘bracketology’ from about the MNC game on, the devaluation of the ‘regular’ portion of the schedule becomes more acute as everybody marks time waiting for the real March action to begin. [...]

You try and focus on basketball. What with things about to finally get interesting, what with the tournaments and all, it seemed an apt time. No matter what the calendar says, however, that other sport just keeps intruding. You would think the ACC was a football conference or something. The big news around these parts, [...]

So much for Senior Night. It was almost the best of times for the Virginia Tech basketball seniors and the rest of the team Wednesday night against Clemson. Unfortunately, basketball rules dictated that the game be played for its scheduled forty minutes instead of thirty-six. That’s when the trouble came. The Tech team that had [...]