ACC Regular Season Crown at Stake: Previewing Syracuse vs. Virginia
Saturday’s game between Virginia and Syracuse will crown this season’s ACC champion, but it’s also a showcase of two teams coming in with very different levels of confidence. While Virginia is riding a...
View ArticleMalcolm Brogdon Ascends from Anonymity to the ACC POY Conversation
Virginia sophomore Malcolm Brogdon was largely an afterthought. Disregarded in almost all of the literature projecting breakout stars (including here), the redshirt sophomore sat out last year...
View ArticleACC Championship Preview: #6 Virginia vs. #7 Duke
It’s the game that we all expected when the ACC Tournament brackets came out last weekend. Duke vs. Virginia. Let’s preview the ACC Championship game by answering the key questions headed into this one...
View ArticleOne on One: An ACC Preview With Bret Strelow
Rush the Court is back with another edition of One on One: An Interview Series, which we will bring you throughout the preseason with previews of each of the major conferences. With the college...
View ArticleACC Preview: Virginia’s Burning Question
This team preview is part of the RTC ACC microsite’s preseason coverage. You will find all the team previews on the ACC Microsite Preview Page located here. Are last year’s reserves ready to step into...
View ArticleACC Preseason Power Rankings
Over the last two weeks, we have previewed each team individually to go with several more articles to get you ready for ACC basketball (first tip: 6:00 PM ET in Durham). Links to the previews can be...
View ArticleIs Justin Anderson This Year’s Malcolm Brogdon?
Prior to the beginning of last season, any preseason accolades that were heaped on a Virginia player were going to Joe Harris. He was a senior who had put up prodigious numbers over his career, and the...
View ArticleACC Stock Watch – Week Two
We here at RTC hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving holiday. Of course, we kept on our eye on ACC hoops for you while you were eating and possibly dabbling in the football-viewing arena. It’s only...
View ArticleACC Stock Watch: Week Three
After two weeks of some mediocre non-conference competition along with some enlightening Feast Week match-ups, the conference found itself in familiar territory battling its peers in the annual ACC/Big...
View ArticleBattle for the Commonwealth: Previewing VCU vs. Virginia
Last year, VCU went into John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville and shocked Virginia on a Treveon Graham buzzer-beater. This year, both teams entered the season ranked in the top 15 nationally with...
View ArticleLondon Perrantes Proves Again Why He’s Mr. Indispensable
It’s easy to look at the team Tony Bennett has put together at Virginia and say that his players are interchangeable. After all, his defense-first philosophy and the offensive identity of continually...
View ArticleACC Exam Week: Grading Out the 15 Schools
It’s Exam Week in the Atlantic Coast Conference, so what better time than the present to analyze the basketball aptitude of the 15 member institutions? Below we present three groupings: the teams...
View ArticleACC Stock Watch – New Year’s Edition
As we welcome 2015, the ACC’s 15 teams have all concluded their non-conference seasons. In the New Year’s edition of this week’s ACC Stock Watch, we’ll examine the league’s trending players and teams...
View ArticleACC M5: 01.07.15 Edition
The ACC: Well folks, I’m happy to announce that the ACC Tournament is finally big time. Yes, contractual obligations and some inexplicable nostalgia mean the conference tournament won’t be moving to...
View ArticleRushed Reactions: #3 Virginia 62, #13 Notre Dame 56
Walker Carey is an RTC Correspondent. He filed this report after Saturday evening’s game between Virginia and Notre Dame in South Bend. Three Key Takeaways. Virginia Came Through in the Clutch on...
View ArticleHandicapping the Wooden Award Finalists
The Wooden Award released its midseason top 25 list last week. College basketball’s top individual honor will likely go to a player named on that list, but there’s still time for others (attention:...
View ArticleACC M5: 01.27.15 Edition
Charlottesville Daily Progress: Justin Anderson woke from his slumber with seven minutes left and saved Virginia from a truly horrendous Sunday loss at Virginia Tech. Anderson has been unreal this...
View ArticleMorning Five: 02.09.15 Edition
The word legend is overused, but college basketball lost a legend on Saturday night as Dean Smith passed away at the age of 83. Smith, who belongs on any Mount Rushmore you want to make for the sport,...
View ArticleACC M5: 02.11.15 Edition
Deadspin and Sports Illustrated: The great stories about the life of Dean Smith just continue to come off the press. Deadspin this week reprinted a profile of the North Carolina legend from a 1982...
View ArticleACC M5: 02.19.15 Edition
Raleigh News & Observer: Wow! What a game. It was far from pretty, but Duke‘s win over North Carolina delivered on all of the hype. My thoughts on the game: Duke played better for the majority of...
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