Cam is putting in work to be the guy who enables Appleby to throttle back to around 30 min per game. That already happens some possessions as Cam is the primary ball handler and initiates the offense, allowing Appleby to rest as a spot up shooter.
Alondes was hurt the last five weeks of the season. He was in real pain at Clemson and against BC with turf toe that just wouldn’t go away. That’s why his production and minutes dropped off.
ACC is better than the B10, probably the same as the Big East, better then the PAC12, and very similar to the SEC. B12 is better but not as good as the computer nerds make it out to be. Last year the ACC had no title contenders and then had two teams make the final four.
So two title contenders.
The Big 12 doesn’t have as many teams which in some years hurts them. This year it helps because they don’t have Louisville, Cal, Oregon State, etc. tanking their whole conference.
Yea exactly. Same thing with the Big East, though they do have Georgetown. That league would be a juggernaut if their most famed program wasn’t a complete dumpster fire.
Yes exactly. People said we had none and then two made the final four.
TORVIK has it at 23.8%, and 5.5% of that is if we win the ACCT. I do think the odds are higher than that almost solely due to the fact that UVA is overrated in the advanced metrics.
Who is good outside of Purdue? Indiana stinks, Ohio State just lost to last place Minnesota, Michigan State is mediocre (blown out by Notre Dame). They have one ranked team. One. That narrative is lazy.
Illinois and Rutgers are both quite good. I would put Rutgers up against anybody in the ACC.
Rutgers was handled by Miami without too much trouble, so would hesitate to say they’re better than anyone in the ACC. Also have home losses to a bad Seton Hall team and mediocre Iowa team. They’re similar to UNC imo, probably would be 4th in the ACC.
SEC is their cash cow, which is why they’ll ask Clemson, FSU, and Miami to leave the ACC in 2035 just as FOX asked USC and UCLA to join the B10 this summer. However, the money and influence in the B10 has a huge amount of influence on media and the tournament committee as Forbes and other ACC coaches talked about at the end of last season.
It’s also important to note the effect of preseason expectations in metrics such as Kenpom. The teams at the top of the ACC are helped down in that system by low preseason expectations. There are some metrics that don’t weigh preseason such as something called KPI that actually see the ACC quite favorably.
