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For a volume scorer I think Hidalgo is actually quite efficient most of the time, but yikes, maybe should have taken fewer shots in this one. 26 points on 25 shots.

Alternatively, Cowles (14 on 10), Prosper (19 on 15), de Jesus (16 on 9!!) and Moore (11 on 8).

FWIW, 10 assists for Hidalgo too.
 
VA Tech was pummeling Miami, I think they were up as many as 18. Lead down to 5 now. (Yeah I know I'm a hypocrite but I don't think we have many fans of either team on this forum)


edit--Whoa, it's tied now! Florida St.-Syracuse is following a similar storyline
 
Syracuse held on, won by 10. VT on the other hand was forced to OT and it sure looks like Miami is gonna win this one. They were down by A LOT earlier in the game.
 
VT was up 49-31 w/ 3:35 left in Q3.

edit--Miami won 75-67. So they went on a 44-18 run spanning the end of Q3, Q4 and the OT.
 
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Big win for Miami on the road against a team they are battling with in the standings.

Right now feels like :
Tier 1:
UL
NCSU
Duke
UNC
ND??

Tier 2:
Stanford
UVa
Miami
Syracuse

Tier 3:
VT
Clemson
Cal
Wake??

Tier 4:
Ga Tech
FSU
SMU

Tier 5:
Pitt
BC
 
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Don't know the team but seems like NC State's results have been all over the place. Injury problems or are they just inconsistent?
 
I think State has shown growth over the course of the season. The results early weren’t exactly all over the place either, they were playing fairly evenly with good teams (Tennessee, USC, TCU, Oklahoma) just some games they couldn’t finish, which I think isn’t that odd given State lost 3 starting seniors, 2 are 1st round W selections and the other was the heart and soul of the team. They had a major leadership void, still kinda do honestly.

I think it’s been a team trying to find itself early on who didn’t get 14 games against cupcakes to figure it out away from scrutiny. They played a very challenging schedule and were trying to break players in to new roles. KP and Q trying to find their roles, Zoe and Zam feeling out who is the lead guard and how to handle being the top of the scout each night, and the bench was a major question early.

Now Zam has kinda taken the reigns at point, KP has found herself and her role on this team and the bench has really given the team a lift. Cox has been very solid off the bench and Quigley and Lunan have both had their moments as well.

For me, this team turned a corner in Cancun. After they lost to RI they went down to Cancun and won both games by double digits, had a dog fight in OT on the road against top 10 Oklahoma, have crushed GT and Stanford at home, crushed Miami on the road and beat a solid Davidson team on the road.

I don’t think they have the same talent level as last year, but I also think the conference is down too. I expect them to be right there fighting for the championship of the ACC.
 
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Zam Jones badly twisted her ankle and had to leave the game with Cal early in the 4th quarter. She will miss time. Meanwhile, it is official now that Lorena Awou has left the NC State team.
 
LETTERL said:
Zam Jones badly twisted her ankle and had to leave the game with Cal early in the 4th quarter. She will miss time. Meanwhile, it is official now that Lorena Awou has left the NC State team.
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And joined Baylor 🙄
 
LETTERL said:
Zam Jones badly twisted her ankle and had to leave the game with Cal early in the 4th quarter. She will miss time. Meanwhile, it is official now that Lorena Awou has left the NC State team.
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Nice win today without Tilda playing. Zam injured her ankle in the final minute no less! Heard she was in a wheel chair after the game but maybe that’s standard stuff out of precaution. Wes indicated he suspected it may be a situation where she has to miss a few games. Big blow for the Pack, she had been really playing well.

Opportunity for Quigley and Lunan to show what they can do.

And Awou to Baylor - kinda thought she may drop down to Southern Illinois, she had a sister going there. Figured she’d put up good numbers at a place like that and then move up a level again. She has the talent to succeed but has to get it straight between the ears.
 
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Notre Dame and UNC play Thursday; one of them will have 3 conference losses before the first week of January is over.
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They play Sunday. UNC has the week off and ND plays BC on Thursday. The ND-UNC game is basically a regular season title elimination one.
 
With so many teams and unbalanced schedules, it's probably going to take a while to really make sense of things in the conference standings. 1-3 Virginia Tech is currently pounding 3-1 Syracuse, on the road. Some pretenders have managed to get off to good starts like the Orange and also UVa.

70-44 midway thru Q4.


edit--Syracuse is actually 13-2 for the season, but it's mostly a nothing burger. Wins against Utah and Auburn. Crushed by Michigan. Lost by 20 to Duke. Looking to top that margin today.
 
Okay, I still can't make heads or tails of this conference. Today Syracuse drilled Virginia on the road 79-60.

edit--whoa, Phelia went off w/ 38 points today, I keep forgetting she's w/ Cuse now; only averaging 12.5 ppg for the season but she was feeling it today.
 
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Finally completely healthy for the first time in a month, all 10 Wolfpack Women scored in a 91-54 win for NC State over SMU. Zam Jones, who was out in Thursday's loss at Clemson due to an ankle injury, came off the bench to reach double figures (15). Leading scorer tonight was UCONN transfer Qadence Samuels, who scored a career high 16 points.
 
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Qadence has been all over the place. Her last 3 games have been a roller coaster. I thought the Cal game was her best in a Wolfpack uniform. She followed that up at Clemson with her worst game of the year. And now set a new personal best against SMU.

She was a real spark tonight with energy, defense, rebounding and was highly efficient. 7-10 and 2-4 from 3. 2 of her misses she got her own rebound and scored.

Tilda and Khamil both had double doubles in limited action. Combined 12-16 from the field between them.

SMU is pretty bad. Didn’t really have much of anything that stood out on that team.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Okay, I still can't make heads or tails of this conference. Today Syracuse drilled Virginia on the road 79-60.

edit--whoa, Phelia went off w/ 38 points today, I keep forgetting she's w/ Cuse now; only averaging 12.5 ppg for the season but she was feeling it today.
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I think the conference lacks high end teams so you get alot of weird results. There is a clear basement with SMU, Pitt and BC (GT, FSU and WF not far away) but the there isn’t a huge gulf between teams like Miami, Syracuse, Clemson, Va Tech, UVA, and Cal.

I still am holding onto my belief that Duke, State and UL will finish as the top teams when it’s all said and done.
 
FanInNC said:
I think the conference lacks high end teams so you get alot of weird results. There is a clear basement with SMU, Pitt and BC (GT, FSU and WF not far away) but the there isn’t a huge gulf between teams like Miami, Syracuse, Clemson, Va Tech, UVA, and Cal.

I still am holding onto my belief that Duke, State and UL will finish as the top teams when it’s all said and done.
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But Georgia Tech beat Clemson today...
 
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But Georgia Tech beat Clemson today...
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Yep. I think those kinds of wins are what GT, FSU and even WF are capable of and what separates those schools from Pitt and BC.

GT is a weird one so far, they have played a couple of respectable teams : State and ND, a couple of bubble type teams: Clemson and UVa and a couple of bottom tier teams: WF and SMU. They beat ND, only lost to UVA and WF by a combined 3 points, beat Clemson and SMU and got dragged in Raleigh. Within the conference they have been pretty decent, but man outside of the conference they have had some ugly results.

Clemson is just an ordinary team. They have some pretty decent guards and multiple players can shoot it, but they aren't dominant athletically or physically. I think they are pretty well coached though from what I've seen.
 
Basically what the ACC results show is a league of mediocre parity. Arguably the top team is Louisville, but they are an underdog at ND this week.

To me, only Louisville and Duke belong in any top 16 and host team consideration in the NCAAT. The rest of the season will play that out but the fact that some of the "blue bloods" of the ACC get throttled by middling teams just proves they are not elite worthy.

UNC, which is littered with McDonald's All-Americans, continues to underachieve and seems to choke in EVERY big game. NC State is very inconsistent, and ND is simply the "Hannah show" with a rotating cast of support players by game. I would be very sad if this conference garners 7 or 8 bids given how poor the teams have looked but given the state of the rest of the potential field, the ACC may get that many.
 
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DefenseBB said:
Basically what the ACC results show is a league of mediocre parity. Arguably the top team is Louisville, but they are an underdog at ND this week.

To me, only Louisville and Duke belong in any top 16 and host team consideration in the NCAAT. The rest of the season will play that out but the fact that some of the "blue bloods" of the ACC get throttled by middling teams just proves they are not elite worthy.

UNC, which is littered with McDonald's All-Americans, continues to underachieve and seems to choke in EVERY big game. NC State is very inconsistent, and ND is simply the "Hannah show" with a rotating cast of support players by game. I would be very sad if this conference garners 7 or 8 bids given how poor the teams have looked but given the state of the rest of the potential field, the ACC may get that many.
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Louisville is a underdog at ND? Which sportsbook is that? Asking for a old buddy
 
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Pretty much went as expected last night. UNC survives a scare from Miami, Duke holds serve at home against UVa, UL gets a big win on the road against ND.

Massive game this weekend in Raleigh with UL and State. If UL wins in Raleigh they would have wins on the road against UNC, ND and State. I think most people would assume Duke, UL, State, UNC and ND are the top 5 teams in the conference in some order. Going 3-0 against your main competition on the road would be an impressive statement for the Cards.

Stanford is probably another team you could throw into that same mix.
 
FanInNC said:
Pretty much went as expected last night. UNC survives a scare from Miami, Duke holds serve at home against UVa, UL gets a big win on the road against ND.

Massive game this weekend in Raleigh with UL and State. If UL wins in Raleigh they would have wins on the road against UNC, ND and State. I think most people would assume Duke, UL, State, UNC and ND are the top 5 teams in the conference in some order. Going 3-0 against your main competition on the road would be an impressive statement for the Cards.

Stanford is probably another team you could throw into that same mix.
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It's hard to believe, but NC State has won 6 in a row against Louisville, heading into Sunday's big showdown.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us Ryan Ruocco and Rebecca Lobo for that one!
 
LETTERL said:
It's hard to believe, but NC State has won 6 in a row against Louisville, heading into Sunday's big showdown.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give us Ryan Ruocco and Rebecca Lobo for that one!
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Yeah I read that too, didn't realize it. HUGE game for the Pack moreso than UL. I think for UL if they win, it really puts them in fantastic position for the regular season title hopes - but it's not necessary. For State, after stubbing your toe against Clemson, you kinda have to win this one if you want to keep that dream alive.

State hasn't had to play the upper echelon of the conference really to this point, only Stanford really. I kind of think the ACC winner goes 16-2...maybe 15-3? State still has games @ND and @Duke as well as UNC and UL at home (plus they've proven to be vulnerable if not healthy against mid tier teams like UVa, Syracuse, VT etc). Getting UL at home needs to be a win. Tall task for the Pack, but a good chance to make a statement and put themselves back on the map in the national media and fans eyes.
 
FanInNC said:
Pretty much went as expected last night. UNC survives a scare from Miami, Duke holds serve at home against UVa, UL gets a big win on the road against ND.

Massive game this weekend in Raleigh with UL and State. If UL wins in Raleigh they would have wins on the road against UNC, ND and State. I think most people would assume Duke, UL, State, UNC and ND are the top 5 teams in the conference in some order. Going 3-0 against your main competition on the road would be an impressive statement for the Cards.

Stanford is probably another team you could throw into that same mix.
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As a Duke fan, is much rather play ND again then Stanford. Stanford is dangerous..
 
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