ACC Week

The Last punishment for the state of North Carolina the ACC tournament moving out of state to Louisvile Kentucky gets underway this week. This year the top four seeds are in pods with two other teams. The Louisville Cardinals are the top seed and share pod A with 8th seed Florida State and the last team in Notre Dame. Pod B is headed by North Carolina joined by 11th seed Boston College and 7th seed North Carolina State.

Wake Forest comes to  Louisville with the third best record in the league.  Miami 6th and Georgia Tech 10th share Pod C.  Virginia heads up Pod D as the fourth best record. Clemson 5th and Georgia Tech 9th round out the pod.

Take a real good look you will notice that the two lowest seeds play each other first.  Let's look at Carolina's bracket.  State and BC play each other first.  If you look at all the pods the  two lowest seeds play each other first.

Each bracket is set up that the loser of each  lowest seed game is eliminated even though they have another game to play.  Should State beat BC each pod is set up that the first game for each top seed is against the lowest seed in each pod.  If overall seedings hold up BC would be out and NC/NCState would play  for the pod championship Friday Night

The two hottest teams in the league are State and BC. How's this for and oddity.  State is 1-5 this year against NC/BC.  They beat the Heels once and were swept by the Eagles.  State played both on the road.

The only way the top seed doesn't win their pod is one of the lower seed wins both.  Should all three in any pod all go 1-1 then the top seed moves to the semi  finals.

The important times this week for every ACC school in North Carolina is Tuesday 3pm State/BC....7pm Duke/Clemson.  Wednesday 3pm Carolina/BC...7pm Wake Forest/Georgia Tech.  Thursday 11am Virginia/Wake Forest...7pm NC State/Carolina.

The outcome of games will determine Saturday.