What Have You Been Smoking?

Don't pass out when I say this but should Duke beat Virginia Tech on Saturday since they play the early game on TV they could be the first ACC team this year that would have earn an invite to a bowl game.  Now if you have been in a coma for the past thirty years or even if you haven't then you know that Duke going to a bowl game just ain't going to happen.  Just one more is all they need and the way the Hokies are playing this might be the year for the Devils to beat the Turkeys.  Heck Carolina just beat  them and they hadn't beat Tech in Chapel Hill since 1924.  If might have helped that they had a fifty year spell that the two teams didn't play each other but hey 1924 is a long time.

This Friday night just might be the biggest Friday night of the year in Big East football.  Right now the two teams at the bottom play for last.  The two teams in the middle play for the lower bunk while the loser has to climb in the top of the bunk bed.  Then the two at the top square off.  This scenario just might not happen again this year.

Those Northern Nash fans out there looking at what has transpired the first two weeks just might be able to say "Boy we have played both of the big boys".  Surely the way the Knights played their non conference schedule they were going to be a factor when conference cranked.  So far not so as they lost big to Hunt and lost to Southern.  Both those teams remain unbeaten in conference play.  Nobody else can say they have played both. If Northern can score the way they did in non conference they just might finish third. I still scratch my head at Nash Central.  Just maybe as much talent as anyone in the league but they just plain and simple haven't got the pieces put together. 

Hunt and Southern will be playing with the winner a leg up for the top seed which after Friday night has only two games to go before the playoffs.  The winner of this game can propel themselves to a high playoff seeding and the loser has got to keep from falling back in the pack the last two weeks.

Rocky Mount will host Fike  and for each one of these teams this is a playoff game.  The loser will have two losses in conference and each will have a game left with either Hunt or Southern.  Fike has scored a lot of points but can't stop anybody.  Rocky Mount has played good defense but their offense has slumped in the second half of both conference games.  The winner will have the edge for third place but not guaranteed.

Tonight in semi final Volley Ball the three seed Rocky Mount is at Hunt while the 4th seed Northern is at #1 Fike.  The two winners collide in the finals Thursday at the highest seed left.