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This was part of the deal to move the conference offices to Charlotte. The state of NC put up a fair amount of money.

The dispute has been settled. ESPN back on Spectrum including ESPN+. I don't know how this affects ACCNX.

A few thoughts on this: 1) For Maui, the point of the Maui Invitational is to promote tourism. 2) The vast majority of hotel rooms on Maui are undamaged yet few tourists will visit because of the tragedy. This may linger for years. 3) The Lahaina Civic Center is undamaged. There will be plenty...

Probably but we really don’t know what the contracts say.

One thing to know is that tickets you obtain through a school are only good for the games the school plays. After your team’s game you’re forced to exit the arena quickly. There’s a lot of lining up waiting to get in to see your team’s game. BTW, those gorgeous Hawaiian videos ESPN shows during...

You do know that Lively and Whitehead have just come back from injuries?

If the ACC-B10 Challenge ends, what replaces it?

When he was at WFU, Chris Paul was suspended for a game for a thrown punch that was missed by the officials and not called a foul during the game. Paul's punch landed a bit lower.

Battle for Atlantis apparently fell apart when Duke opted out. The idea of having it in South Dakota may have been the deal breaker. Duke is now looking to replace it with some sort of bubble event on the Duke campus.

How does this work if people entering NY from southern states are supposed to quarantine for 14 days? That would include the Syracuse team if returning from one of these states.

In the earliest days of the ACC the Tournament was held at the NCSU arena. There was considerable concern about the advantage this gave NCSU so the tournament was moved to the Greensboro Coliseum once it opened around 1961(?). It’s not been held at a school’s home court since other than one year...

The thing is that I can dramatically reduce my risk from the flu by getting immunized. There's no vaccine yet for Covid-19.

I thought that Syracuse fans would be amused to learn that in a tweet the Duke Basketball Report said: "Memo to well, everyone: don’t make Syracuse fans mad. They’re really just Kentucky fans with less summer." This was in reference to the political heat in NY over how Spectrum is treating its...

This tweet from DISH sounds a lot more encouraging: DISH Answers @dish_answers · 8m Replying to @Lenvillecards Hey, Len! We have let our Programming Team know the ACC Network is in high demand with many of our members, and hope to get this added to our lineup before its launch tomorrow. -JM

There are free VPN apps. I've used Betternet. It's pretty easy to use. Of course, I live in the US and have access to ESPN at home so all I have to do is use a VPN app to fool ESPN into thinking I'm in the U.S. when I'm actually traveling abroad. If you live in Canada, you have to use someone...

This is what Dish is saying now on Twitter: DISH Answers @dish_answers · 49s Replying to @lutrm48 Hello, Lucas! At this time, we do not have a contract to carry ACC Network. We are working with the owner of the ACC Network to see if a fair agreement can be reached to carry this channel on...

Frontier has announced that they're not signing up for ACCN. Dish isn't just fighting with Disney/ESPN over ACCN. They seem to be fighting with everybody. That seems like a dangerous course for them.

The ACC Network needs to start covering these summer games for all the league teams but the only way that can happen is if the ACC schools only do summer basketball games in Canada. No time zone issues with Canada. Shouldn't be expensive or difficult to do the broadcasts since TSN, the Canadian...

They may all be televised but most won’t be on the ACCN. It’s only one channel. The rest will be on ACC Extra.

I hope the ACCN is televising these overseas games beginning next summer.

I’m a Duke fan. It looked like something intentional but I can’t be sure. Even if it was, it shouldn’t be treated as anything all that serious, certainly nothing that would merit anything more than a flagrant 1. Lots of stuff happens on basketball courts in the heat of battle. Flying elbows...

Heard it "again"? Got a link for either of these alleged Duke fan site reports that 2018-19 will be Coach K's last? I'm calling this a hoax. It's certainly not appearing on the DBR board where it would appear if there were substance to this.

Actually, Wegmans is putting a store in Cary, which is not far from Durham.

Conor O'Neill (@ConorONeillWSJ) 3/7/18, 11:42 PM "NEW YORK -- Syracuse's fate in its second-round game of the ACC Tournament was sealed when a drunken fan from section 107 of the Barclays Center interrupted a pre-game moment of silence for Woody Durham.

Buzz may be at Va. Tech a while. There aren't many bigger jobs in college basketball than being a head coach at an ACC school. ACC head coaches don't often leave for other jobs unless they fear they're about to be fired. If Duke, Kentucky, UNC or Kansas calls, maybe, but otherwise he's likely to...

What's the problem? If beach volleyball is an Olympic sport, why not 3X3 basketball? It's been contested internationally for a few years now. It's certainly a sport that's played recreationally. I'd love to see colleges have 3X3 teams separate from their 5X5 teams. They could play during the...

Their day is coming. Their infractions hearing is coming up in August and the Infractions Committee is saying they won't delay it again. AP Exclusive: SEC's Sankey refuses to step down in UNC case

No need to limit it to USC. PAC sucks. West Coast hoops suck. What's it been -- 18 years since a West Coast team won it all?

I don't know what you're basing this on. I live in Raleigh and I'm extremely pessimistic about the prospects for getting rid of HB 2. GOP legislators represent rural districts and just don't care about the consequences the cities are suffering. In fact they seem to be happy about it.

No, the last time the ACC was in Atlanta, it was in Phillips Arena. 2012 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament - Wikipedia

It was in Tampa once. I don't think anyone, even FSU or Miami, was happy with it being there. I think Orlando is a long shot. Tampa isn't happening.

14,000 which would be small for the ACC. Also that arena has no history of hosting major events. It probably lacks the sort of backstage area needed for the ACC Tournament. You need four dressing rooms, a big media room and a big hospitality area for fat cats. But Charleston is a great place to...

Are the Duke games now drawing a higher attendance than the Georgetown games used to?

There's a report that the schedule will come out Thursday or Friday and that the ACC office is frustrated with the networks over the delay

I'm pretty sure that Duke-NCSU will be in line ahead of Duke-Syracuse if there are any new permanent partners established. Duke and NCSU are 23 miles apart. But I'm not sure that any new permanent partnerships will be established. In fact, I could see it go down to just one per school instead of...

Anything can happen but consider these extremely early NBA draft projections for 2017: Duke 2 Harry Giles 8 Jayson Tatum 16 Grayson Allen 17 Frank Jackson 29 Marques Bolden Syracuse 18 Tyler Lydon 34 Tyler Roberson

And for the first half of the first game we were treated to a bright yellow glare across the basketball court coming from advertising within the stadium. You would think they could have spotted this problem well before the broadcast began or at least solved the problem within a few minutes.

In general, Packer promoted the ACC but he wasn't necessarily popular with ACC fans. He was detested by Duke fans. By the end of his broadcasting career, I think everyone in the ACC other than WFU fans was tired of him. I remember yelling "Shut up, Packer" at my TV screen several times every game.

The theory is that when the ball is out of bounds it isn't on either side of half court. It's out of bounds. The more interesting rule to me is that if an offensive player tips a rebound into the backcourt, a teammate can retrieve it without a backcourt violation being called.

A tweet from a sports writer for the Raleigh News and Observer (and to explain a bit, UNC's display of a Helms title banner is the object of some derision by Duke and NCSU fans): Luke DeCock ‏@LukeDeCock 46m46 minutes ago Carrier Dome has dozens of banners, honoring Jim Brown and lacrosse...

I don't think any weave could be that bad. It looks like a thatched roof. That's a rug.

This is what Nike gave Coach K for winning 1,000 games. That's 10 gold plates, one for each 100 victories.

No, the seating just rotates. It was U.Va's turn.

Syracuse fans will be in the corner. Looks like more U.Va. fans there than any other school.

Battier is struggling but he's better than Jay Williams when he started broadcasting and Jay is now a studio regular. If you're familiar with Battier, you know he's smart, knowledgable and charming. He's got the potential to be as good as Bilas. Maybe he makes it. Maybe not. We'll see. He'll be...

I wonder if this game will be on TV in Canada. It would be nice if Syracuse could do home and homes with Carleton to begin developing a Canadian TV market for ACC basketball. However, NCAA rules limit schools to one foreign trip every four years. That's silly in the case of Carleton since it's...

Take a look at this article on Tomahawk Nation. The whole subject of conference TV revenues is even more complicated than I thought. The Big 12 and the PAC may have higher TV revenues than the ACC but may end up hurting themselves by signing on with Fox because Fox ratings for college sports are...

Duke has commits from Chase Jeter, the 5th rated player in the class, and Luke Kennard, the 6th rated player in the class. Louisville has the 18th, 20th, 21st and 39th rated players in the class which is a good class but certainly not a great class. Louisville has the top rated class based upon...

A brutal late schedule means your program gets high TV ratings. Games draw bigger audiences after the Super Bowl.

Here's the schedule: 2014-15 SCHEDULE Date Opponent Nov. 2 vs. Carleton (exhibition) Nov. 10 vs. Adrian (exhibition) TBA 2 home games in November as part of 2K Sports Classic Nov. 20 vs. Cal in 2K Classic at Madison Square Garden, 9 p.m. Nov. 21 vs. Iowa or Texas in 2K Classic at Madison...