Miami tops Virginia

On Tuesday night Miami helped their position in the ACC standings by beating Virginia 74-62. The win brings them off the bottom of the conference standings.
It also brings up the question of the winner of the conference tournament.
So with how weak the ACC is this year is the conference tournament champion going to be Duke, or can a team like Miami or Virginia come from the bottom and win the conference?

This weekends action

The ACC was in full effect this weekend. The scores were as follows: Boston College 71 North Carolina 67, Maryland 76 Georgia Tech 74, North Carolina State 68 Wake Forest 54, Clemson 72 Virginia 49, and Duke 67 Virginia Tech 55. Here are the recaps for the first four games. And here is the recap from the
Duke VT game.

ACC player of the week

Following Wednesday nights action Duke's.John Scheyer was named ACC athlete of the week . ACC rookie of the week was Florida State's Michael Snaer.

Tuesdays Action

Number 25 Wake Forest was beat by Virgina Tech Tuesday by the score of 87-83. With the win Virgina Tech keeps a hold of second in the ACC behind Duke.

Also on Tuesday Georgia Tech beat North Carolina, 68-51. North Carolina continues to struggle and is 3-8 in conference play.

Here are the standings for the ACC conference before Wednesdays action.

Winners from Saturdays action

The ACC had a full slate of games Saturday, here are the scores from the each match up. Do you see anyone knocking off Duke as the number 1 team in the conference?

Sundays action puts Boston College up against Florida State.

Injuries keep key players out

North Carolina didn't only lose their game to Duke Wednesday night, they also lost their start player. To go along with two other big players Ed Davis will now be out for six weeks with a broken wrist. Duke also lost one of its main players in this game. Senior Lance Thomas is listed as doubtful for the Blue Devils upcoming game against Maryland. Thomas will be recovering from a bruised knee.

What do you think North Carolina's chances are to turn there season around now that Davis is done for what looks to be the rest of the season? And will Duke be able to stop Maryland inside without one of their top defenders, in Thomas?

Rivalry revisited

The Duke Blue Devils went down to Chappel Hill and beat a struggeling Tar Heel team. Neither team played too well but as the time ran out in the second half Duke had the 64-54 victory. For a complete recap of this game and the rest of the ACC action last night click here. As the second half of the ACC season starts who do you think will start to emerge as a national contender?

Maryland vs Virgina update

Due to the weather in the area of the Comacast Center in College Park, Md, the matchup between the Terps and the Cavaliers will be postponted until Feb. 15. For the full story check here: New game time.

Wake downs BC

Wake Forrest beat Boston College and has a chance to move to second in the ACC depending on Marylands play Wednesday. Wake won by the score of 92-85 on AL-Faroug Aminu's 22 points, 8 rebounds and 4 blocks. Here are the games full statistics http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/boxscore?gameId=300400154.

Not one dominate ACC team

With the NCAA basketball season in conference play there has yet to be one team from the ACC to show that it is the top power from that conference. Duke and Florida State kept their rankings at one and two respectively from last week, but after these two the rest is one big jumble. Take a look at this link that ranks each team this week: ACC Rankings. Comment about where you think each of these teams will end up, not only in the ACC, but in the NCAA tournament, this season.