ATB: The Real Number One, Saint Louis’ Ascendance and What Did Maryland Just...
Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. Tonight’s Lede. Fun, Fun Night Of Hoops. The night began with a top-five match-up of seismic proportions. Indiana-Michigan State...
View ArticleACC M5: 02.21.13 Edition
Fox Sports: I would’ve said the ACC Player of the Year race was a dead heat as late as last week. But as long as Miami keeps dominating the league (even by low margins of victory), I’m starting to...
View ArticleMorning Five: 02.27.13 Edition
The announcement by Mike Krzyzewski that he would no longer coach Team USA was not really a surprise to those who have been paying attention as he has been saying for quite a while that he would be...
View ArticleLessons Learned: ACC Weekend Wrap-Up
It was a boring penultimate weekend of Atlantic Coast Conference play where everything went according to plan and nothing exciting happened. Just kidding: It was a in fact a sensational weekend of...
View ArticleACC Tournament: Previewing the First Round
After a season in Atlanta, we return to Greensboro, a city known for the ACC tournament and an abundance of space for business and trade conferences. It’s clearly good to be home. The first day of the...
View ArticleRushed Reactions: Florida State 73, Clemson 69
Matt Patton is an RTC correspondent and ACC microsite writer. He filed this report after Thursday night’s ACC Tournament game between Florida State and Clemson. Three Key Takeaways: Epic...
View ArticleRTC Bubble Watch: March 15 Edition
Daniel Evans (@bracketexpert) is RTC’s new resident bracketologist. According to Bracket Matrix, he ranks as one of the top several bracketologists among those who have produced brackets for more than...
View ArticleACC Tournament: Previewing the Quarterfinals
If you love everything going totally to plan, then you loved the first day of the ACC Tournament. Will chalk continue to reign as the conference’s top teams join the fray? Well, it’s at least possible....
View ArticleRushed Reactions: North Carolina 83, Florida State 62
Matt Patton is an ACC microsite writer. He filed this report after Friday night’s game between UNC and Florida State in the ACC quarterfinals from Greensboro. Three Key Takeaways: Michael Snaer is...
View ArticleACC Snubs Fill Up the NIT
The cases for Virginia and Maryland were always tough to make. Both teams were able to hang their hats on seriously good wins, yet both also had some of the ugliest losses on the bubble. That these two...
View ArticleATB: An NIT Marvel, Gaels Cruise and a Fitting Conclusion For Florida State…
Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. Tonight’s Lede. NIT Invades National Spotlight. For months we’ve awaited the commencement of college basketball’s premier...
View ArticleACC M5: 04.08.13 Edition
Run The Floor: Michael Rogner absolutely kills it with this Bleacher Report-driven satire on top prospect Andrew Wiggins (whose final four schools include North Carolina and Florida State). The story...
View Article2013-14 ACC Conference Schedule Released
The ACC announced the conference opponents for next year’s basketball season. We’ll have a little more analysis of team’s opponents once we wrap up coverage from this season and start looking ahead to...
View ArticleClosing Out the ACC Microsite
Well, it was an up-and-down year in the ACC filled with injuries, March disappointments and one season for the history books. We here at the RTC ACC Microsite loved chronicling every minute of it....
View ArticleFraming the Andrew Wiggins Hype on the Brink of Decision Day
Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. Top-rated prospects are not created equal. Each and every recruiting class features a different No. 1 player with a different skill...
View ArticleMorning Five: 08.27.13 Edition
At this point it seems like the NCAA is just trolling us (ok, we passed that point long ago). The latest outrage is over the NCAA giving Pe’Shon Howard a hardship waiver enabling him to play at USC...
View ArticleA Familiar Narrative: Xavier Rathan-Mayes of Florida State Snagged By...
Chris Johnson is an RTC Columnist. He can be reached @ChrisDJohnsonn. Academic eligibility issues among high-level college basketball recruits are not a novel development. They are varied and...
View ArticleMorning Five: 09.11.13 Edition
When Luke Winn recently wrote about the up-transfer phenomenon his examples were typically players whose performance exceeded the expectation of observers allowing them to move up a level of play....
View ArticleACC M5: 10.17.13 Edition
Syracuse Post-Standard: This article isn’t new, but it’s relevant with Midnight Madnesses kicking off the college basketball season in earnest this week. Donna Ditota took the time to compile the...
View ArticleFlorida State and Maryland’s Turnover Quandary: Which School Can Fix the...
If you are looking for the main thing holding back Maryland and Florida State from greater success last season, look no further than sloppy ball-handling. Those two teams finished right in the middle...
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