Curious to see what happens tonight at VT. They seem to just be awful and at the same time Miami seems legit. The analytics say VT is a better team and thus are 5 point favorites tonight. Numbers vs eyes
VT's power rating is out of whack because they blew out a bunch of decent OOC opponents including an 86-49 win over St. Bonaventure who is near the top of the Atlantic 10. As a result, they have been favored in almost ACC game, and they have lost most of them. Agree that its beyond weird that Miami is 6-2, on top of the ACC with two 1 point losses to FSU, and VT is 2-6 in the ACC with two narrow wins over middling NC State and Notre Dame, and VT is a 5 point favorite. Still hard for me to trust Miami, they were a below average offensive team in OOC games, but they have been the best offensive team in ACC conference games, including shooting an unsustainable 41% from 3.
Didn't Miami start with 5 home ACC games?
Auburn has ascended to #1. Believe its the first time in school history. Bruce Pearl is shady, but credit to him for succeeding at a program with no basketball tradition outside of Barclay and Chuck Person.
Deep connections between Forbes and Bruce Pearl. I assume that they are still close, but not sure after the NCAA essentially caused every coach in that program to fend for themselves and rebuild his career.
Also, "The Big Ten and Big East have five ranked teams apiece, followed by the SEC and Big 12 with four each. The Pac-12 has three and the ACC, American Athletic, West Coast and Atlantic 10 each have one." Barf.
Miami shot 51% from 2, 61% from 3, 90% from the FT line
Stupid Hokies doing their best to devalue our December road win.