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Welcome to Ada Lovelace Day!


Ada Lovelace was born as Ada Gordon in 1815, the daughter of Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) and Annabella Milbanke. Her mother pushed her in the direction of science and mathematics, in the hope that she wouldn't end up like her erratic poet father. Machines were an early fascination for Ada; she enjoyed learning about inventions of the Industrial Revolution, as well as coming up with designs for steam flying machines and boats. She married William King, who became Earl of Lovelace in 1838. Her official title was Lady Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, but she began being known as Ada Lovelace.

Her mentor, Mary Somerville, had introduced her to Charles Babbage in 1833, and they became friends. Babbage had plans for an "Analytical Engine," which combined his "Difference Engine" with a punch card operating system; it had elements of things now used in today's computers. Fascinated by this, Lovelace translated an Italian article on it into English, and expanded the article with Babbage's urging, as he observed she had a deep understanding of the engine. Her piece, titled "Sketch of the Analytical Engine, with Notes from the Translator," included sketched out programs of the engine, and prescient observations of its use. This work is viewed as early computer programming, and because of this, Lovelace is often referred to as the first computer programmer. She even has a programming language, Ada, named after her.

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The 5 subjects sure to be talked about at ACC’s Operation Basketball media day (PS; Waters)

The ACC will hold its annual men’s basketball media day; aka Operation Basketball at the Marriott City Center in downtown Charlotte on Tuesday.

The event will bring together the head coaches and two players from each of the conference’s 15 member institutions. Jim Boeheim and juniors Elijah Hughes and Marek Dolezaj will represent Syracuse.
The players and coaches spend most of the day fielding questions from reporters, radio hosts and TV personalities.
What will be this year’s hottest topics? Here are a few guesses.

Paying players

The ACC’s Operation Basketball will start off with commissioner John Swofford’s press conference. Expect the commissioner to field a barrage of questions on the topic of compensating the student-athletes.
The issue has been in the headlines lately thanks to the passage of the Fair Pay to Play act in California as well as similar legislation being taken up in other states such as Florida and New York.

As commissioner, Swofford’s opinion will be significant, but it will also be interesting to see what the ACC’s heavyweight head coaches like Boeheim, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and North Carolina’s Roy Williams have to say on the issue.

FBI fallout

If it seems like the FBI’s investigation into college basketball recruiting has been on the docket at the ACC media day for the past few years, well, it has.

The FBI probe will be a topic for discussion again this year as the fallout from the investigation and the subsequent trial are back in the news with the NCAA delivering Notice of Allegations to several schools recently.
Kansas is the biggest name to be notified by the NCAA, but ACC schools such as Louisville and North Carolina State will almost assuredly be swept up in the scandal. Miami is another possibility.
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Can Syracuse finally unlock its ‘death lineup’? - The Juice Online (the juice; Irvine)


Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim likes traditional centers. He’s like them big, and helikes them in the middle of the zone.

This is why Craig Forth started all 136 games of his career. This is also why SU’s defense has finished in the country’s top 10 in percentage of shots blocked 15 of the last 21 years.

But the Orange’s most common lineup combination down the stretch last season didn’t feature 7-2 Paschal Chukwu, the tallest player in Syracuse history. Instead, it featured the slender Slovakian, 180-pound Marek Dolezaj, at center.

The Golden State Warriors made the ‘Death Lineup’ famous in 2015 by surrounding Steph Curry with four versatile, lengthy wings who could switch any position on defense while knocking down 3s on offense. With the undersized Draymond Green at center, Golden State’s offense was able to utilize the spacing created by their shooters and exploit mismatches against slower big men.

The last two seasons, playing Dolezaj at center has given Boeheim his own version of the Death Lineup. Because the zone makes it difficult for opposing centers to abuse the lightweight Slovakian in the post, Syracuse is able to play its best five offensive players without giving up too much defensively.

Much like Green on the Warriors, Dolezaj doesn’t have to shoot to make an impact. He only took 9 percent of shots when he was on the floor last season, but he assisted on 14 percent of shots, which was more than five times the rate of either Chukwu or Bourama Sidibe – and even more than Elijah Hughes or Oshae Brissett.

By shooting 38 percent on 3s and 48 percent on 2-point jumpers, Dolezaj stretched the floor and created lanes for Tyus Battle to drive.
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Ed Hardin: It'll be old ACC atop the league in a new basketball season (greensboro.com; Hardin)

The old ACC has disappeared into a maze of Big East and football schools, but every year we’re reminded that at its soul, the league is about basketball.

We endure football – apologies to our friends in Clemson. But we live basketball. And the beginning of each season brings memories of the way we were and the promise of the way we’ll always be.

Once again, at the top of the conference, are old-school giants Duke, North Carolina and Virginia. Put them in any order you like, but that’s the new reality and another reminder that the old ACC was the best ACC.

We’ll see the top three teams take on the entire nation while the vast middle of the footprint fights to keep from sinking out of contention. The middle is always where the ACC gets its true identity.

While the rest of the country focuses on the top three schools, and for good reason, here in the heart of college basketball, we watch the vast middle where N.C. State, Syracuse, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame and Miami all have a legitimate shot at joining Louisville as the fourth-best team in the league and an equal shot of falling through to the dark bottom of the standings.

In a 15-team league playing a 20-game conference schedule, someone has to fall. In the ACC, the fall is more predictable than a team rising from the rubble. There’s simply no room at the top.

So we head out into another season, with the league's Operation Basketball scheduled for Tuesday in Charlotte and an ACC Tournament in Greensboro awaiting everyone except Georgia Tech and an NCAA Tournament invitation awaiting any number of schools that manage to avoid the gravitational pull of the bottom of the standings.
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No. 6 (tie): Syracuse (journalnow.com; Hardin)

No. 6 (tie): Syracuse

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Syracuse's Elijah Hughes, right, playing against Baylor during the NCAA Tournament.
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Record 11-9

Analysis

The losses outweigh the returnees for the Orange, and that could mean another season of hanging out in the middle of the ACC standings. Syracuse might surprise some people this year, though, and rise to the top. Of the middle, anyway.
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ACC Preview #7 - Syracuse (DBR; King)

Since the various former Big East schools moved to the ACC, there have been differing levels of success.

Notre Dame has had some real ups but also some real downs. Buzz Williams had Virginia Tech on the verge of greatness before he bailed for Texas A&M. Louisville did well under Rick Pitino until the program imploded, yet seems to have quickly found stability under his successor Chris Mack. Pitt and BC collapsed and Pitt is only now moving back up. Miami may have made the transition the best so far because it hired a brilliant coach in Jim Larranaga who specializes in scrappiness and resourcefulness.

And then there’s Syracuse.

The Orange have been a power for decades and they basically own Central New York and, to an extent, New York City. Year in and year out, they are the best program in the state. That’s not saying as much as it used to but it’s still important.

Like some of the other former Big East teams, the transition to the ACC has seen some up and downs.

The Orange certainly get up for games with Duke and UNC and had a memorable Elite Eight comeback against Virginia a few years ago, but overall is it as strong as it was in the Big East?

The honest answer is no.

The top of the ACC now is Duke, UNC and Virginia. In a good year, Syracuse is on the next tier down with Louisville, Florida State and, maybe Notre Dame, Miami and, more and more, NC State.
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2019-20 Operation Basketball Today! (RX; HM)

2019-20 Operation Basketball Today!

It all starts tomorrow!

Catch all of the #ACCMediaDay action on @accnetwork!

For info head to ACC Men's Basketball Media Day - Atlantic Coast Conference

— ACC Men's Basketball (@accmbb) October 8, 2019
Make that 7:00 AM today on Packman and Durham, followed by All ACC: Operation Basketball at 10:00 AM - all on the ACC Network!

ACC Factoids:
The ACC has won seven national championships in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and baseball since 2015. That is the most of any conference and the ACC is the only league to win each of those four titles over that stretch.

The ACC’s seven national titles in those sports have come from six different programs – Virginia men’s basketball (2019), Clemson football (2018, 2016), Notre Dame women’s basketball (2018), North Carolina men’s basketball (2017), Duke men’s basketball (2015), Virginia baseball (2015).

Men's Basketball 2018-19 Season Highlights
Virginia captured its first national championship in dramatic fashion, downing Texas Tech, 85-77 in overtime, giving the ACC its third national championship in the last five years and its eighth in the last 19.

For the first time ever, three teams from the same conference finished atop the AP poll – Duke (1), Virginia (2) and North Carolina (3). The ACC has had at least one team ranked in the top 10 of the final AP poll for 59 consecutive seasons.
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NBA Draft prospect rankings: Four Duke stars are in our top 11 ACC players with pro potential (cbssports.com; Boone)

Only twice in the 21st century has a player from the ACC been selected No. 1 overall in the NBA Draft. And in both cases -- 2011, with Kyrie Irving, and 2019, with Zion Williamson -- they were players from Duke. That trend could come to a halt in 2020.

The No. 1 player in the debut of our prospect rankings for 2020 is a player attending school in the same state as Duke, but separated by Tobacco Road. He's North Carolina combo guard Cole Anthony, and he's the No. 1 draft prospect to watch this season in a conference littered with NBA talent.

As for the others, here's who you should keep an eye on in the ACC this season.

1. Cole Anthony, North Carolina
Measurables: 6-foot-3, 190 pounds
Position: Guard
Draft projection: No. 1 overall
What to know: North Carolina's system is guard-friendly and plays to Cole Anthony's biggest strengths. He'll be given freedom to play on or off the ball and should really flourish as a playmaker. While he's perhaps not as speedy as predecessor Coby White, it's like saying Justin Gatlin isn't quite as fast as Usain Bolt; Anthony is still plenty fast and can get downhill fast enough to dominate in UNC's offense. With the athleticism, handles and bounce all playing to his advantage, he's got a chance to be as lethal as White was last season in transition.

2. Tre Jones, Duke
Measurables: 6-2, 183 pounds
Position: Point guard
Draft projection: First round
What to know: A potential first-round slot awaited Tre Jones after a strong freshman campaign in which he finished third in the country in assist/turnover ratio, but unlike his other freshmen teammates, he came back. Now, with another stellar supporting cast, he has a chance to take a leading role on a Duke team that again should be top-10 quality all season long. He needs to improve overall as a shooter -- last season, teams dared him to take open shots. But the perimeter pressure he applies on defense coupled with his sure-handed ball-handling already has him in the mix to be the next Jones from Duke taken in the first round.

3. Jordan Nwora, Louisville
Measurables: 6-8, 215 pounds
Position: Small forward
Draft projection: First round
What to know: Size and shot-making set Jordan Nwora apart from his peers. He's shot 38.8% from 3-point range in his first two seasons at Louisville, and should see a monster workload as a featured piece as a junior. Nwora's not just a shooter, though; he led the Cardinals in rebounds, steals and minutes played last season. He'll enter this season as a favorite to win ACC Player of the Year on a Louisville team I'm picking to win the conference.

4. Matthew Hurt, Duke
Measurables: 6-9, 214 pounds
Position: Power forward
Draft projection: First round
What to know: Matthew Hurt is a 6-9, 214-pound forward, but he moves like a 6-3, 180-pound guard -- and shoots like one, too. That versatility will be on full display this season for Duke as he's put into situations as a pick-and-pop stretch big with range that extends to the 3-point line.
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ACC Season Preview: Power rankings, Preseason Awards and why Louisville will win the league (nbcsports.com; Dauster)

Today, we are previewing the ACC.

We are kicking off our conference previews with the ACC.

Duke, North Carolina and Virginia all figure to finish in the top four once again.

But it’s the Atlantic Coast’s Kentucky resident that looks, on paper, like the favorite to win the league.
And there’s a team out in Indiana that you’ll want to keep an eye on as well.

Let’s dive into the ACC.

FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

1. JORDAN NWORA IS BACK SO LOUISVILLE IS AWESOME
The single most important thing that happened during the early entry period this past May was that Jordan Nwora made the decision to withdraw from the 2019 NBA Draft and return to Louisville. The 6-foot-7 junior is coming off of a season where he averaged 17.0 points and 7.6 boards and shot 37.6 percent from three. After spending some time during the offseason playing with the Nigerian national team, he is in line for a blow-up season.
Nwora plays a role that has proven to be very productive for Chris Mack in the past. When Trevon Bluiett was at Xavier, he scored 2,261 points in four seasons, the latter of which culminated in Xavier winning the Big East regular season title and entering the NCAA tournament as a No. 1 seed. And like Bluiett, Nwora is a shot-making small forward that has the size to defend at the four spot while needing to add some athleticism and explosiveness to reach his ceiling.

Getting him back is huge, and it means that now the most important spot on the floor for the Cardinals is going to be at the point. In theory, St. Joe’s grad transfer Fresh Kimble should step into the starting role, but during the summer, freshman David Johnson really impressed. The problem? Johnson has a shoulder injury and looks like he is going to end up being out for a while.

There’s no doubting anything else on this roster. They are talented, they are deep, they have a terrific blend of exciting young talent and quality veteran players. As long as the point guard situation sorts itself out by March, there is going to be a very real chance Louisville gets to a Final Four.

2. THE REIGNING CHAMPS ARE GOING TO HAVE A VERY VILLANOVA FEEL
Virginia is going to be dealing with the same things that Villanova dealt with last season. After making a memorable run to a national title, the Wahoos lost some pieces they didn’t necessarily expect to lose. For a program that doesn’t reload with grad transfers and freshmen every year, this is a concern.
Tony Bennett knew that he was going to have to find a way to build without De’Andre Hunter – that’s why Braxton Key was brought in last summer – but he did not expect to lose both Ty Jerome and Kyle Guy as well. Jay Wright found himself in the same boat last season, when the departure of Omari Spellman and Donte DiVincenzo a year earlier than expected meant that freshmen were going to be asked to play a much bigger role.
I’m not too worried about Virginia’s frontcourt. In fact, I think the trio of Key, Mamadi Diakite and Jay Huff will be the best part about Virginia’s team this season. Where the concern is lays with Kihei Clark, who is going to be asked to carry a much bigger load this year, and the players that will be asked to fill the minutes vacated by Guy and Jerome.
In the big picture, Virginia is going to be fine. But fine probably means we’re talking about a team that is destined to end up somewhere around a No. 4 or No. 5 seed on Selection Sunday as opposed to a favorite to win the national title.

3. IT’S COLE ANTHONY SZN
You’d be hard-pressed to find a freshman that is a better fit with the way that a program wants to play than Cole Anthony’s fit at North Carolina. For the most part, North Carolina’s best teams have all featured a fast point guard that can put up points in a hurry. Ray Felton, Ty Lawson, Marcus Paige, Joel Berry, Coby White. Anthony fits that mold better than anyone, and it seems like a certified lock that he will end up averaging something along the lines of 20 points and six assists.
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Inside an ACC men’s basketball preseason ballot (dailyprogress.com; Conlin)

Basketball season is approaching.

With ACC Men’s Basketball Media Day taking place on Tuesday in Charlotte, we’re less than one month away from Virginia’s season opener at Syracuse. Before we get to on-court action, there’s time to project, prognosticate and predict.

The projected order of conference finish and the preseason All-ACC team are two of the most anticipated parts of ACC Media Day.

I received a vote for this year’s poll and wanted to put the logic behind my votes on paper.

Transparent voting generates quality discussion, and it gives fans a hard copy of my predictions for when they want to critique my incorrect predictions in March.

You’re welcome, ACC fans.

Preseason poll

1. Duke — Despite losing Zion Williamson, RJ Barrett and Cam Reddish to the NBA, the Blue Devils return one of the conference’s best point guards. Tre Jones joins incoming recruits Matthew Hurt and Vernon Carey Jr. to form a dynamic offensive attack. While the Blue Devils are far from a lock to win the ACC, the overall talent level combined with slightly tempered expectations make Duke a dangerous team. The Blue Devils might not be as flashy as last season, but it probably won’t take a 16-2 ACC record to win the league this year.

2. Louisville — Another team with a strong case for the No. 1 spot, Louisville’s returning players might be the best in the league. Jordan Nwora decided to return for his junior season a year after averaging 17 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. Nwora is arguably the best player in the league, and he’s primed to lead Chris Mack’s squad to a top-2 ACC finish. He’s joined by Dwayne Sutton and grad transfer Lamarr Kimble among others.
3. Virginia — Much like Duke, Virginia lost a trio of stars. With Kyle Guy, Ty Jerome and De’Andre Hunter gone, Mamadi Diakite, Jay Huff, Kihei Clark and Braxton Key assume larger roles. Given Tony Bennett’s successful system and the experience of the returning players, UVa should contend for a conference title. Keep an eye on freshman Casey Morsell, who may play meaningful minutes early in his career.

4. North Carolina — Freshman Cole Anthony enters UNC with tremendous hype. The young point guard needs to perform well for the Tar Heels to work their way to the top of the ACC. The speed in which this team gels together after adding talented freshmen like Anthony and mid-major grad transfers like Justin Pierce (William & Mary) and Christian Keeling (Charleston Southern) will determine how successful this team can be.

5. N.C. State — After starting last season 13-1, Kevin Keatt’s squad went 11-11 the rest of the way. With a combined four seniors and graduate students on the roster, the Wolfpack bring the necessary talent and experience to compete for an ACC title. Braxton Beverly, Markell Johnson and C.J. Bryce form one of the best backcourts in the ACC.

6. Florida State — Trent Forest and MJ Walker provide Leonard Hamilton with a reliable backcourt. With a strong defensive mindset and good guards, the Seminoles will be a tough out in the ACC. If 7-footer Dominik Olejniczak limits opposing offenses from scoring in the paint, FSU might be a sleeper team in the conference. Olejniczak is a grad transfer who most recently played at Ole Miss. Freshman Balsa Koprovica brings another 7-footer into the mix, making FSU one of the biggest teams in the conference.

7. Syracuse — The Orange don’t lack talent, as Elijah Hughes, Marek Dolezaj and Jalen Carey are all capable of posting solid seasons. Buddy Boeheim, the son of head coach Jim Boeheim, also is an intriguing sophomore guard who did a few nice things last season. There are question marks with this team, but the talent and coaching should make Syracuse a competitive squad.

8. Notre Dame — Rex Pflueger returns from injury, and Notre Dame should be drastically improved from last year. The Fighting Irish struggled without their star guard last season. The Irish feature five seniors or graduate students, which makes Notre Dame a possible NCAA Tournament team.
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My 2019-2020 Preseason All-ACC Basketball Ballot (augustafreepress.com; Graham)

ALL-ACC BALLOT
1 #33 Jordan Nwora – Forward – Louisville
2 #25 Mamadi Diakite – Forward – Virginia
3 #2 Cole Anthony – Guard – North Carolina
4 #2 Cassius Stanley – Guard – Duke
5 #3 Trent Forrest – Guard – Florida State

PRESEASON PLAYER OF THE YEAR BALLOT
1 #33 Jordan Nwora – Forward – Louisville

PRESEASON ROOKIE OF THE YEAR BALLOT
1 #2 Cole Anthony – Guard – North Carolina

PREDICTED ORDER OF FINISH
1 North Carolina
2 Louisville
3 Virginia
4 Duke
5 Florida State
6 NC State
7 Clemson
8 Notre Dame
9 Miami (FL)
10 Boston College
11 Georgia Tech
12 Syracuse
13 Pittsburgh
14 Virginia Tech
15 Wake Forest


CRAWFORD | Storylines: Louisville steps into a higher profile at ACC hoops media day (wdrb.com)

For the University of Louisville men’s basketball program, this trip to the ACC basketball media day will be different from the past several.

In 2017, Louisville’s head coach, Rick Pitino, had just been fired, and David Padgett found himself thrown into the spotlight. Last season, Chris Mack came to the event, a new name with low expectations.

On Tuesday, when the league holds its annual, “Operation Basketball” event, Louisville will arrive in style.

Mack has one of the deepest rosters in the league returning. He has, in junior Jordan Nwora, perhaps the league’s top returning upperclassmen. And he has expectations awaiting him. Louisville is a consensus top-10 national pick and is among four teams — along with Duke, North Carolina and Virginia — expected to be among the top contenders for the ACC title.

It’s quite a change for a program that was reeling just two years ago at this time and which still faces possible NCAA sanctions for the role of former coaches in the national college basketball pay-to-play scandal.
But for this season, Louisville appears to be in a kind of sweet spot, with a solid roster and a talented recruiting class, with no NCAA sanctions in place and any future sanctions unlikely to affect the current team.

Mack is bringing Nwora and center Steven Enoch with him to Charlotte. A quick look at some storylines for the Cardinals and other teams at this season’s event:

1. WHERE ARE THE STARS? For a league that regularly boasts some of the top freshmen in the country, the media day rarely puts them on display. Zion Williamson wasn’t here a year ago, and the most-anticipated newcomers to the league this season – including North Carolina guard Cole Anthony and Duke’s Cassius Stanley and Vernon Carey Jr. – are noticeably absent.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski will bring upperclassmen Javin DeLaurier and Jack White, while Roy Williams will have Garrison Brooks and Brandon Robinson.

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The 30-year-old lawsuit that cleaned up Onondaga Lake is about to end (PS; Coin)


The 30-year-old lawsuit that transformed Onondaga Lake from a sewage cesspool into a potential swimming hole is nearly over.

Atlantic States Legal Foundation, which sued Onondaga County in 1988 over the county’s sewage overflows into the lake, has agreed to end the suit that forced the cleanup of what was once considered one of the dirtiest lakes in the U.S.

“I think we have an overwhelming victory,” said Atlantic States’ Samuel Sage, who filed the federal lawsuit and is still a board member of the group. “The lake has gone from black to white, practically.”

Sage declined to talk about the details of the settlement. County Executive Ryan McMahon, through a spokesman, declined to comment until after county legislators are briefed later this week.

A resolution approving the settlement is included in the Legislature’s Environmental Protection Committee package for the Oct. 16 meeting. The entire legislature is scheduled to vote Nov. 7.

The resolution says the county met the court-ordered requirement to reduce sewage overflows four years before the deadline and has continued to reduce sewage overflows since then. The order had required the county to hit a 95% “capture rate” by December 2018, but the county achieved that in 2014 and has since increased the rate to nearly 98%, the resolution says.

The “capture rate” is the percentage of the combined storm and sewage water that was estimated to be flowing into the lake and its tributaries during an average year.
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