ACC M5: 11.12.13 Edition
Pitt News: Cool story from the Pittsburgh student newspaper about the Panthers changing their defense as the game changed. Jamie Dixon thinks that one reason more teams are playing zone defense is...
View ArticlePoint Guard Play Still Hindering Virginia’s Offensive Attack
Lathan Wells is an RTC correspondent. He filed this report from last night’s Virginia vs. VCU game in Charlottesville. There were many proven commodities for Virginia coming into this season, with...
View ArticleACC M5: 12.19.13 Edition
Bleacher Report: Good profile of Quinn Cook from Jason King. Cook’s offense took a small step back as he saw a big increase in minutes last season, but this year, he’s having his best season yet from...
View ArticleAfter Slow Start, Virginia Now Looks Like a Legitimate ACC Contender
Even after Monday night’s 69-65 loss to Duke, Virginia looks like it is built to stay near the top of the ACC for the rest of the season. On a night when Duke played inspired basketball and had the...
View ArticleVirginia’s Resurgence Directly Tied to Success of Joe Harris
There is no question that Virginia entered the season fully expecting to be able to count on senior Joe Harris to elevate the team to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2012 and make a...
View ArticleACC M5: 01.22.14 Edition
Sports Illustrated: Good stuff on CJ Fair here, whose two sporting idols are Carmelo Anthony and Michael Jordan. Anthony makes sense for a multitude of reasons: Fair is also from Baltimore, has the...
View ArticleACC M5: 01.24.14 Edition
Mode Analytics: Fair warning — you can spend hours with this visualization of where college basketball teams recruit. The only thing that I’d like to see from this is more years included. Obviously...
View ArticleLondon Perrantes Has the Virginia Offense Humming
Virginia’s resurgence is well-known by now, with everyone from this site to Joe Lunardi taking notice — standing firm right behind Syracuse in the ACC standings will do that. But while Virginia’s...
View ArticleACC M5: 02.05.14 Edition
Hampton Roads Daily Press: Here’s a good look at three of the most efficient guards in the ACC: London Perrantes, James Robinson, and Tyler Ennis. Ennis and Robinson may best Ty Lawson’s...
View ArticleVirginia: The Quiet and Legitimate Title Contender
Kansas, Syracuse, Duke, Wichita State, Arizona, Michigan State: These are some of the teams typically first mentioned when discussing this season’s NCAA championship contenders. While Virginia is laden...
View ArticleACC Regular Season Crown at Stake: Previewing Syracuse vs. Virginia
Saturday’s game between Virginia and Syracuse will crown this season’s ACC champion, but it’s also a showcase of two teams coming in with very different levels of confidence. While Virginia is riding a...
View ArticleThe Unofficial RTC ACC Superlatives
While the more official hardware is beginning to be handed out, like Player and Coach of the Year and the All-ACC team’s, it’s worth looking at some more under-the-radar superlatives that players and...
View ArticleWhat’s on the Mind of the 15 ACC Programs Right Now
With the start of the ACC college basketball season rapidly approaching, allow us to put on our psychoanalyst’s hat to determine what’s on the mind of each of its 15 member programs right now. Some are...
View ArticleACC M5: Halloween Edition
TheACC.com: The ACC media picked Duke as a fairly strong favorite to win the league this year, giving the Blue Devils 41 out of a possible 65 first place votes at ACC Operation Basketball on Wednesday...
View ArticleMorning Five: 11.10.14 Edition
The 2004 USC football team might have some company soon after Dan Kane’s latest piece on the North Carolina academic scandal showed just how pervasive the academic fraud was on the 2005 North Carolina...
View ArticleACC M5: 11.12.14 Edition
A Dime Back: This UConn fan site executed a classic troll on the Huskies’ old Big East rival, Syracuse, by buying the domain http://syracuse.nyc/ and flaunting Connecticut’s success in the Big Apple...
View ArticleACC Preview: Virginia’s Burning Question
This team preview is part of the RTC ACC microsite’s preseason coverage. You will find all the team previews on the ACC Microsite Preview Page located here. Are last year’s reserves ready to step into...
View ArticleIs Justin Anderson This Year’s Malcolm Brogdon?
Prior to the beginning of last season, any preseason accolades that were heaped on a Virginia player were going to Joe Harris. He was a senior who had put up prodigious numbers over his career, and the...
View ArticleBattle for the Commonwealth: Previewing VCU vs. Virginia
Last year, VCU went into John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville and shocked Virginia on a Treveon Graham buzzer-beater. This year, both teams entered the season ranked in the top 15 nationally with...
View ArticleACC Weekend Review: 02.09.15 Edition
After two straight weekends full of buzzer-beaters and furious comebacks, this was a much quieter weekend in the ACC. In the headline event on Saturday night, Virginia held off Louisville in a...
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