ACC Storylines: @justin ferber's weekly stroll around the league is back as he tracks some of the top storylines facing UVa and others in the ACC.

favored by 2.5 against Miami at Cassell tonight

I am looking for 4 tickets to take my kids. I got wife approval to have them out of school the next day, so if anyone has seats to sell, please text or call me at 7033047904. Thanks, Brian

Just watched Kansas beat TCU on the road. Not impressed with either teams' O but Kansas D was really effective. BYW: anyone notice how much Kansas' Mcullers looks like Malcom Brogdon? They could be brothers. I would love to see a side by side photo of them if anyone on here can do that.

We will have to play extremely focused and hope we can pull a sweep.

We need Miami to stumble atleast 1 game and hope we can get past Boston College, UNC, and the last two home games against Clemson and Louisville. We can not afford to lose but one game; but hope for a sweep.

The good news is Miami and Pitt are right behind us and one will lose a game in their last game against each other.

So I have a sneaky feeling that Miami will stumble at VT, but will give Pitt a loss when they play them in Miami.

Coming off his recent trip to UVa for the Duke game, 2024 guard Christian Bliss raved about his time on Grounds, seeing the Hoos win, talking to the coaches, and much more. @HoustonWilson breaks down what all Bliss took away from the trip.

Great analysis by Xavier Venom. Really breaks down the different post combos. I get so frustrated when this Gardner/BVP pairing isn’t working, and Dunn and Shedrick ride the bench.

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Wow, surprised they were able to pull it off and apparently as OC, not HC. Although sounds like he’ll get an Associate HC title.

Jake Gelof already hit a three-run homer in the top of the first. It's his second home run of the weekend and he already has eight RBIs.

Greetings from John Paul Jones Arena where the Irish and the Hoos will tip things up at the top of the hour. We'll have notes and updates soon.

As always, have at it folks...

Paul VI big man Patrick Ngongba talked to @HoustonWilson about his trip to UVa for the Duke game, what stood out about seeing the Hoos and the program up close, and what Tony Bennett has told him about how he’d fit.

Funny video of BVP interviewing team members. Dude was born in 1998 we find out at end.

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To send Clemson to the NIT.

Hoping Clemson gets the W for the sake of the ACC and so they aren't coming off a loss when we play them

Girls playing hard down 33-27, but Lawson and the guards have to quit trying to throw over the top like they are throwing a softball with too much zip on the ball to our girl down in the blocks heavily guarded and in several cases completely surround by Duke trees. Three or four turnovers on really bad to hard or high passes.

Girls have to also get their D straighten out. Too many girls running to double team a girl with the ball and leaving their person wide open in the paint for uncontested layups and bunnies shots.

Would love for the girls to pull this win out. Here's hoping they have an Outstanding second half!

Was great seeing Trey Murphy in the dunk contest, had three impressive dunks, but should have done something better on the last dunk. Would love to have seen him try something like that in a game just to see Bennett's reaction and then benching of him.

I knew McClung could dunk and have seen videos of a number of dunk contests he was in, but boy did he pull out some spectacular dunks and should have 50s on all of them (Lisa Leslie gave him a 49 on one so he scored nineteen 50s and one 49 on his four dunks.

Great to see Virginia represented well (Murphy from UVA and McClung from VA).

The other two dunkers were pretty boring other than the guy that had his eyes above the rim on the first dunk he did (though needed to see it in slow motion to appreciate it).

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Denny quietly had what very possibly will be the best round of the day In the Genesis Open. While all the coverage was on the groups that teed off on 1, he played the back 9 first and shot 7 under 64. With a few groups still out no one has better than 5 under for the day.

I really don’t want to land in Houston or Bama bracket. I’d prefer Purdue or Kansas. And I’m not so sure I’d want Baylor again.

Ridiculous Miami isn’t in top 16.

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Virginia had 19 hits. O'Ferrall led the team with 4 hits; Teel, Anderson and Godbout each had 3, and O'Donnell and Saucke had 2 each.

Virginia scored 2 unearned runs in the 1st when O'Donnell drew a walk and Saucke hit a double; both scored on an error by the first baseman. O'Ferrall had a RBI single followed by a 2-run home run by O'Donnell in the second. Teel hit a home run in the 3rd for our 6th run. Edginton started on the mound and has given up singles in the first and second innings.

Interesting this tweet that we may likely end year with no Quad 1 wins in conference at home, really due to ACC being so unfairly ranked. We sit at #14 in NET with eight teams ahead of us with more losses. We don’t seem able to move up much in the NET or KenPom as our conference opponents aren’t highly ranked. Plus our bottom five are just bad teams which drag everyone down who plays them. Top 8-9 teams in ACC are pretty good but get held back by these rankings. Big 12 teams do good in the NET win or lose, doesn’t even matter.

These rankings also put the ACC as the seventh best conference. Crazy as the ACC won the BIG 10 challenge who’s rated the second best conference. Just ridiculous that ten or so OOC games in November and December determine a conference’s lot for the season. There’s no significant adjustment for teams getting better over the course of a season.

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Preview: One last trip to JPJ for Mike Brey, as Notre Dame comes to town tomorrow afternoon to face No. 7 UVa (Noon, ESPN2). @justin ferber breaks down the matchup between the Irish and the Wahoos.

Go get ‘em you beast!!!!

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Ho hum - another ACC and NCAA Championship season, another American record here, another NCAA record there, more dominating wins from the Women's Swimming & Diving team...
ACC Championships this week.

Kate Douglass breaks the NCAA, American and US Open record in the 100 Fly today after winning the 200 IM Wednesday, barely missing her own teammate, Alex Walsh's American record.
Gretchen Walsh broke Kate's 50 Freestyle American record yesterday.
Alex Walsh and Ella Nelson win dominantly in the 200 Free and 400 IM. See some of the videos here if you're interested.

200 Free and 200 Medley relays both broke their own American records.
Too much to write or even mention the women getting 2nd-place with great swims to their own teammates.
Click around SwimSwam's or Swimming World's articles if you like.

The UVA men are fighting, but missing 2 of their best swimmers and will fall back a little this year.

Hoos and Cards will tip things up at the top of the hour. I’ll have notes and updates shortly.

As always, have at it folks…

Is on quite a slide.