Exam week

This area is slow this week with high school sports because this week is exam week or to be politically correct EOC week. In my day they were called exams but we don't want to put to much pressure on our children so let's call them something that doesn't sound as hard. Our kids must make a grade point average of 81 after the EOC's or they must retake their exams or excuse me EOC's again on Friday.

There is celebration in our household as Morgan made 92 on Biology on Monday in which I had to review material that I have not had since the Ice Age. I wasn't much help in the 94 she made Tuesday in English.

Friday sports returns and the Gryphons will travel to Hunt. If we can go by non-conference portion as an indicator Hunt looks like the team that if we can sweep them Friday the Gryphons will have a leg up on everyone in basketball.

This past Saturday the Big East held the duels in wrestling. Like in tennis this is the team championship part of wrestling and Northern Nash won the conference championship whipping the Gryphons for the title. Later on the individual championships will be held.

Last night N C State found someone in the ACC worse than them as the Wolfpack won 88-81. Yesterday I talked about point guard play and I kept up last night with the number of passes made in the first half. The Wolfpack made 108 passes outside the three point line in the first half resulting in fifteen points. They made eleven passes that started outside the three point line and went across the line resulting in twelve points. The remaining eleven first half points occurred from steals and no passes or shots taken with no pass involved. Eleven times they went inside and scored twelve points. Basketball is an easier game when you get close to the basket over passing outside the three point line and never attacking the basket.

Wake beat Maryland at home in OT 89-87. Carolina has a real test tonight with a a visit to Clemson.

Looks like Skip is leaving ECU as Holtz was rumored to have interviewed yesterday for the South Florida job. Hold the phone, with Pete Carroll leaving Southern Cal and Lane Kiffin leaving Tennessee for Southern Cal the coaching carousel is in the works and if I was Holtz I would wait a week or two to see where the dominoes fall over the next week. Who knows the Notre dame job may be open again.