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Welcome to National Jerky Day!

National Jerky Day is observed annually on June 12th. National Jerky Day was created to celebrate the rich history, immense popularity and nutritional benefits of dried meat snacks.

“In many ways, jerky is an ideal snack. Naturally packed with protein, jerky will keep you satiated between meals; but since it’s low in fat, calories and carbs, it won’t sabotage a healthy diet,” said Jeff LeFever, director of marketing for Jack Link’s® Beef Jerky, the No. 1 U.S. meat snack brand.


This nutrient-dense meat has been made lightweight by drying. A pound of meat or poultry will weigh only about four ounces once it is made into jerky, and it can be stored for months without refrigeration because most of the moisture has been removed. Salt is added to the meat before it is dried, to prevent bacteria from developing.

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Virginia's De'Andre Hunter was a vital part of the Cavaliers first championship. Everyone will remember how great he was in the NCAA Championship game, but he had several stellar performances throughout the year. One such performance came in a comeback against Louisville. Down 10 at halftime, Hunter scored 19 of his 26 points in the 2nd half to lead the Cavaliers to a win. Watch highlights as Hunter leads UVA to the win right here!

These are the 5 most important players in the ACC for the 2019-20 college basketball season | NCAA.com (ncaa.com; Katz)

The 2018-19 college basketball season saw Virginia take home the national championship, marking the third time in the past five seasons an ACC team has finished March Madness on top. Andy Katz takes a look at five players who can help bring the trophy back to the ACC once again in the 2019-20 college basketball season.

AAC: Andy Katz on 5 players who can impact AAC play in 2019-20

1. Cole Anthony, 6-3, Fr., North Carolina
Anthony is replacing Coby White and Nassir Little. He’s the star of the Tar Heels. He will be the point, the playmaker and the scorer. He will be a candidate for national honors. And he will be the most important player on the Tar Heels and thus in the ACC. If he delivers, as expected, then the Tar Heels should be in the thick of the ACC title chase. The surrounding pieces are in place for another Roy Williams run. To dismiss Williams because he’s not overloaded with experience would be a mistake.

2. Tre Jones, 6-2, So., Duke
Jones decided to hang back and groom the next crop of Duke freshmen. Jones was the top on the ball defender last season and he returns to be the stopper for the Blue Devils. His numbers — 9.4 points, 3.8 boards, 5.4 assists and 1.5 turnovers a game — should all rise, well except for the turnovers. He was steady for Coach K and now that he has gone through one season he will be even more valuable.

AWARD CONTENDERS: Cousy Award | West Award | Erving Award | Malone Award | Abdul-Jabbar Award

3. Steven Enoch, 6-10, Sr., Louisville
The easy answer here is to pick Jordan Nwora as the most important player from Louisville. But Enoch can be a game changer. He averaged 9.4 points and 5.2 boards in just 19 minutes a game. He will have to log more and continue to be a rim protector (blocking more shots would help although he alters plenty). If Enoch is a force inside then the Cardinals can have a difference maker in the chase for the ACC title.

4. Tomas Woldetensae, 6-5, Jr., Virginia
This could come as a surprise but the Cavaliers desperately needed to replace the shooting of Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy. The hope is that the Ottumwa (Iowa) Indian Hills Community College transfer will deliver. The Italian native averaged 17.3 points a game last season. He can shoot it in rhythm, handle the ball and get to the basket. Virginia has Braxton Key back and adds Casey Morsell to the perimeter to take feeds from point guard Kihei Clark. But if Woldetensae is a scorer in the teens and a top defender, then he could be a reason the Cavs are in the thick of the ACC championship.

5. Trent Forrest, 6-4, Sr., Florida State
Forrest is one of the few members of the Seminoles returning who made a major contribution. Gone are Mfiondu Kabengele, Terance Mann and Christ Koumadje. Forrest’s numbers of 9.3 points, 4.5 rebound and 3.7 assists should all rise. Forrest will be counted on to lead Florida State to its usual place — in the NCAA tournament after being likely under-valued and under-appreciated during the regular season.

Andy Katz is an NCAA.com correspondent. Katz worked at ESPN for 18 years as a college basketball reporter, host and anchor. Katz has covered every Final Four since 1992, and the sport since 1986 as a freshman at Wisconsin. He is a former president of the United States Basketball Writers Association. Follow him on Twitter at @theandykatz. Follow his March Madness 365 weekly podcast here.


ACC Basketball Recruiting: 5 under-the-radar class of 2019 prospects (bustingbrackets.com; Anderson)

ACC basketball is set for another solid year of college basketball. The top of the recruiting ranks isn’t the only one packing a punch, either.

After one of the more memorable seasons in recent history from Duke freshman Zion Williamson, times are sure changing across the ACC basketball landscape. Williamson swept the regular season conference awards with ACC Player o the Year and Freshman of the Year honors in 2018-19, putting up 22.6 points, 8.9 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 2.1 steals and 1.8 blocks per game.

By season’s end, Williamson also took home Naismith and Wooden Award honors and the irony of it all is all eyes were on R.J. Barrett entering the 2018-19 season. Entering a new season, there’s a number of under-the-radar recruits set to make their name in 2019-20 and beyond.

5. Dereon Seabron, NC State Wolfpack
Dereon Seabron is a long and wiry combo guard as 6-foot-6 that will bring potential matchup problems to the NC State Wolfpack rotation. He ranked 124th overall in the 2019 class and as the 21st-best combo guard for a player of his size at 192-pounds.

After winning a state title in 2017-18 at Lake Taylor High School, Seabron spent this past season at Massanutten Military Academy where he developed his game as a ball-handler and slasher. He stood out on numerous occasions with his play and showed off an increased strength and conditioning on both ends.

With his length and athleticism, he has the potential to crack the rotation right away for the Wolfpack and make an impact. NC State was a team that struggled at times on offense. Seabron brings the possibility of getting a tough bucket when they need one the most.

4. Joseph Girard III, Syracuse Orange
Joseph Girard III is listed at just 6-foot-1 but he plays a whole lot bigger than that as evidenced by his high school career. He finished as one of the top scorers in the state of New York in 2018-19. He posted 66 points in Glens Falls (NY) state playoff victory over Watervliet (NY) this past season while leading his squad to their first-ever state title.

3. Al-Amir Dawes, Clemson Tigers
Al-Amir Dawes probably surprised many when he spurned schools like the Providence Friars, Seton Hall Pirate and St. John’s Red Storm for the Clemson Tigers, but he fills an instant need for the Tigers in the backcourt with a lot of departures in the ACC, one of the best conferences in college basketball.

Dawes is a 6-foot-2 guard that can play with or without the ball. With the ball in his hands, he can score from anywhere on the floor with his crafty handle. When he isn’t scoring, he finds ways to make plays for others, two big needs in the Clemson rotation in 2019-20.

Look for Dawes to make an impact right away for Clemson this upcoming season. He’s one of three freshmen guards that will make their debut and arguably, the best of the trio. The New Jersey product is one player that is set to make a name for himself in the ACC.

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Duke’s new freshmen can’t match Zion’s hype. Can they bring another ACC title? (newsobserver.com; Wiseman)

The next wave of Duke basketball freshmen arrived on campus earlier this month amid little fanfare compared to the program’s previous crew.

That’s no knock on Cassius Stanley’s 451,000 Instagram followers. But Zion Williamson soared past the 1 million mark months before he arrived at Duke a year ago.

The accounts of Stanley, Vernon Carey, Matthew Hurt and Wendell Moore combined are still in six figures.

Last year, Williamson, RJ Barrett, Cam Reddish, Tre Jones and Joey Baker gave Duke the nation’s No. 1-rated incoming class.

Duke’s current class, featuring five-star players Carey and Hurt and four-star recruits Stanley and Moore, comes in at No. 4. With Williamson, Barrett and Reddish off to the NBA, those four will play key roles in any success Duke has on the court this season.

No one with a clear mind expects those four to approach the hype and attention Williamson and his class achieved last season.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski just wants them to mentally become part of Duke’s program as they physically arrive as freshman.

“Hopefully they interact with the upperclassmen,” Krzyzewski said.

Duke returns both its captains from last season in seniors Javin DeLaurier and Jack White. A year ago, as they became first-time captains, DeLaurier was coming off a sophomore year where he played 12.7 minutes per game. White played just 5.7 minutes on average.

This summer, they come in as established contributors.

DeLaurier started 16 games and averaged 16.7 minutes per game. White started just three times but played 20.5 minutes per game.

Krzyzewski doesn’t hide the fact that the freshmen will be counted upon heavily, though.

“A lot will be expected of them,” he said, uttering a sentence the has applied to every Duke class since 2013.

For this group, that’s especially true of the 6-foot-10 Carey and 6-9 Hurt.

The 6-10 DeLaurier dabbled with turning pro but came back. His classmate, 6-11 Marques Bolden, entered the NBA Draft and didn’t return to school.

So Cary, Hurt and DeLaurier comprise Duke’s interior rotation this year. That means the two freshmen must be ready to handle 30-plus minutes a night from the opening game with Kansas on Nov. 5 to the NCAA tournament.

Carey, at 275 pounds and DeLaurier are physically equipped to play inside. Hurt weighs in at 215, and while he can contribute in the paint, his skills take him all over the court.

“Matthew can really score the ball,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s a gifted scorer. He can shoot. He can handle. He can play inside and out. He can score from a number of different positions and he’s a heck of a free throw shooter.”

Krzyzewski warned not to typecast Carey as simply an interior player, suggesting his skills will also help Duke on the perimeter in the five-out motion offense Duke implemented last year.

Those sets spread the court to allow athletic big men -- Williamson, Barrett and Reddish last year, Carey and Hurt this season -- to be effective with jump shots or drives to the basket.

Moore and Stanley both stand 6-5, though Moore is a bit heavier at 210 pounds to Stanley’s 180.

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Leadership will be key for Louisville basketball come 2019 (bigredlouie.com; Lane)

Louisville basketball has a chance at a Final Four run in 2019-2020, but there’s one thing that must be fulfilled before that can happen.

It’s not very often that a college basketball team brings in seven new players, returns just six scholarship players, and is still being talked about as a potential Final Four contender. For Louisville basketball, that’s exactly what will happen heading into the 2019-2020 season.

In just his second season as the head coach of the Cardinals, Chris Mack has a chance to put his name into the conversation as one of the elite coaches of college basketball if he’s able to take a team that looked to be on the verge of an epic collapse following the firing of Rick Pitino to a National Championship contender in just two years.

With a top 10 recruiting class and one of the nation’s top graduate transfers incoming and the Cards bringing back an astonishing 67% of minutes, 76% of points, 80% of rebounds, 51% of assists, 71% of steals, and 89% of blocks from last season, according to Louisville statistician extraordinaire, Kelly Dickey, Louisville could return back to the city where they won the National Championship in 2013.

With those expectations, there’s a lot that has to take place behind closed doors and on the floor come fall. The biggest being, leadership.

When asked about Jordan Nwora and Steven Enoch returning next season and the leadership that will be needed to achieve the things that both the Cardinal fanbase and National Media are saying, Chris Mack alluded to what his team will need, saying:

“The best teams, in my opinion, are the ones that are led by their oldest players, We’re going to find out a lot about our team this summer and the leadership it possesses. That’s going to be really important.

If that is true, Louisville should be in good hands this season.

Even with seven new players coming into the fold this offseason, the Cards will be one of the most experienced teams not only in the ACC but throughout the entire country.

The 2019-20 roster will feature four seniors (including grad-transfer Fresh Kimble), all of which will be redshirt seniors -meaning they’ve been around college basketball programs for five years each, as well as three juniors. Together that gives the Cards a combined 25 years of experience.

Louisville went through a lot last season, and there will be a lot for each of the six returning players to glean from. Whether it was the epic collapse to Duke, the multiple blown leads, the lack of consistent effort, or the first round tournament loss – there will be no shortage of motivation for this team next season. However, the team’s primary leader from a year ago, Christen Cunningham, is gone, leaving the responsibility to carry the torch onward with someone else.

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Looking Ahead

Year to remember: A fantastic high school sports season will be celebrated tonight at the All-CNY High School Sports Awards. Here’s ticket and event info.

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Watch the video on Girard. His range for a high school kid is phenomenal. I just hope he can get his shot off against college players and that he develops his left hand.
 

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