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ACC Basketball: The Recruiting Frontrunners (isportsweb.com; Beissner)
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The clear frontrunner here is Duke. The Blue Devils have six powerful freshmen recruits lined up for the upcoming season: Luke Kennard, Brandon Ingram, Chase Jeter, Antonio Vrankovic, Justin Robinson and Derryck Thornton. All of the players listed here have the potential to make an impact immediately. More importantly, they will need to do so not only for a chance to score a spot in the starting lineup, but also to fill the shoes of Duke’s departing talent.
In addition to the influx of talent for next season, Duke is already dominating the recruiting for 2016-2017 as well. Jayson Tatum, a 6’8” small forward from St. Louis will be a Blue Devil the season after next, and will likely be a candidate for the centerpiece of the Duke offense.
The talent in Duke’s incoming classes is immense. Most other schools in the ACC are lucky to be able to add at least one player of that caliber to their roster. UNC was able to attract a highly touted shooting guard in the form of Kenny Williams as well as power forward Luke Maye. As the Tar Heels will retain nearly all of their team, these star additions in combination with their veterans will provide a nice threat to Duke.
Louisville, Florida State and Syracuse have also been fruitful in their recruiting. As the Cardinals have to replace the most impactful parts of their lineup, they have added Donovan Mitchell and Deng Adel, shooting guard and small forward respectively, among others. Florida State gave the Blue Devils a run for their money with the commitment of Dwayne Bacon, a 6’6” shooting guard from Virginia. Lastly, Syracuse stays in the running with its own elite recruits: Malachi Richardson, a 6’5” small forward and Moustapha Diagne, a 6’9” power forward, both of which are likely to be immediate playmakers for the Orange.
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NCAA Tweaks First Four Rule, Seeding Placement Rules (abc7.com; Katz)
UCLA was one of the most questionable at-large additions to the NCAA tournament's field of 68. But since the Bruins weren't technically one of the last four at-large teams in the field, they weren't eligible to play in the First Four in Dayton.
Now a team like UCLA, which reached the Sweet 16, could easily be slotted for the First Four after the men's basketball selection committee tweaked its principles and procedures during its summer meeting in San Diego.
The NCAA released the new wrinkle that could have an effect on who plays in Dayton and must play five games instead of four to reach the Final Four -- something VCU did in 2011.
Under the old rules, the last four at-large teams voted into the field were automatically slotted into the First Four. The last four No. 16 seeds are also slotted for the First Four, and that won't change.
Last March, the last four at-large teams were Dayton, Boise State, BYU and Ole Miss. UCLA and Texas, two teams which were late at-large adds but not the last ones, weren't compared to those teams. Now they can be.
The men's basketball selection committee can now take teams who were already voted into the field and compare them against the last four. That means the selection committee could have compared Ole Miss [the highest-ranked team among the last four] with UCLA and decided the Rebels were more deserving of a regular spot in the field and avoid the First Four.
The committee also tweaked the ruling on where a No. 2 seed can be placed. Prior to selections, there was a potential backlash brewing against the committee if it had placed Wisconsin as a No. 2 in the region with top No. 1 Kentucky -- solely based on geographic proximity to Midwest site Cleveland -- even if the Badgers were the top No. 2.
Wisconsin won the Big Ten tournament, making the decision moot as the Badgers earned a No. 1 seed out West.
Now, the committee can move the top No. 2 -- or the fifth team on the seed line -- if it determines a move is necessary, regardless of proximity. In last March's case if Wisconsin had been the top No. 2, then it could have been placed as the No. 2 in the East with Villanova in the Syracuse region instead of Cleveland.
This also gives the committee the flexibility if two teams from the same conference were the top No. 1 [let's say Duke] and the top No. 2 [Virginia, for example] to be placed in different regions.
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Harry Giles Cuts List to Five Schools, Syracuse Out (si.com)
Harry Giles, a five-star recruit in the Class of 2016, announced Monday the five schools he is still considering.
Giles, a 6'10" forward from Winston-Salem, N.C., listed North Carolina, Duke,Kentucky, Kansas and hometown Wake Forest as potential suitors. Ohio State, Syracuse and UNLV are out of the running.
SI.com’s Luke Winn, who saw Giles in Greece at the U-19 World Championships,wrote that “it's no stretch to call him the world's most physically gifted, young frontcourt prospect.” He is the No. 2 recruit in his class by Rivals, while ESPN ranks him as the No. 1 prospect.
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Wi-Fi or Bathrooms: Which Carrier Dome Update is More Important to You? (TNIAAM; Keeley)
The last time I was in the Carrier Dome for a Syracuse Orange football game, I marveled at how following each play, every person around me seemed to grab for their phone. They wanted to text something, tweet something, take a picture, check a score, etc. And then the next play would happen, rinse, repeat. It seemed like the obvious conclusion was that a strong Internet connection and wifi experience was exactly what the Dome needed to provide to make the next generation of Orange fans happy.
Turns out, they'd just really like to have a more comfortable place to urinate.
That's the general findings of most universities as well as the National Association of Collegiate Marketing Administrators when they poll students and young fans on what they want out of their gameday experience.
It asked almost 24,000 students across the country to rank the factors that influenced their decision to attend games. By far the most important was a student’s interest in that sport. By far the least important was a stadium’s cellular reception or wireless capability.
One of the shocking things that schools have learned is that football fans, including students, currently care more about clean restrooms than fast Internet. In the recently released Oregon study, which surveyed students across all five power conferences, fans ranked cellular connectivity last on their wish list.
While it's counterintuitive to what I saw during the game, that jives 100% with most complaints I see in the comments or on Twitter. People HATE the Carrier Dome bathrooms and probably complain about the troughs more than anything else this side of losing by 40 to Clemson.
At the end of the day, whether you're 18 or 80, you want the same things. You want to be able to park easily. You want to be able to tailgate. You want a good view from your seat. You want to be able to use the bathroom without feeling like you're in a prison. You want to be able to get the food you want. And you want to watch your team win.
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