Good Coaches Take Away Your Strengths

What is the one thing that NFL know it all's say about Bill Bellichek.  He takes away your best player and makes you beat him with everybody else.  So what did coach K do to N C State?  Took Cat Barber out of the game.  Barber didn't do much in the Pack win in January but rest of the crowd got the job done.

I have a theory about ending of games..  If you are losing 40-0 in football but manage to score late you head in to the next game on some what of a positive note.  State's win over Pitt they played great defense in the first half but gave up 47 in the second.  That did not bode well for starting the game with Duke that State played no defense in the second half of the Pitt game.

Duke had four days to prepare for State and do you think they even thought they would play Pitt.  Duke was prepared for State and throw in the  revenge factor and playing on a neutral floor. Duke in the first half played perfect basketball and State wilted under the perfection.  Now the shoe is on the other foot.  Duke just played the second half to get the game over will that hurt them Friday.  I will say this however.  Duke is undefeated since the dismissal from the team.

Carolina is much like State and you don't really know from one game to the next what you are going to get.  One thing is for sure Carolina guards love to shoot and play little defense.  On most nights the Tar heel big men are too soft. 

 Virginia has by far and away the best defense in the country.   I don't understand why they want to run thirty seconds off the time clock when on offense with their players they should be scoring 80 every game and winning 80-55.

Greensboro is a buzz that two North Carolina schools are still alive heading to the semi finals.  You add to it that this is the last time North Carolina will host the ACC Tournament until 2020 either Duke or Carolina need to win this year.  This state would go loopy if both make it to Saturday night and of course Saturday night has always been ACC final night back in the days of the eight team ACC.  We had better hope there is at least is one playing Saturday.