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If there is a virtual unknown factor for the upcoming basketball season it is whether or not redshirt freshman William Graves can be a contributor. Bill Cole at the WSJ gives us a glimpse at Graves and what he might have to offer:
Continue reading ‘In Case You Were Wondering About William Graves’
Wayne Ellington sprained his right shoulder in the first game against Uruguay at the Pan Am Games and has not played since. From a moderator at Inside Carolina:
Wayne Ellington did miss the USA team’s Thursday game at the Pan Am Games, but according to the USA Basketball staff it is not a serious injury.
He has suffered a sprained right shoulder and the USA Basketball staff told me he is listed as “day to day” moving forward. It’s undetermined whether he will play in tonight’s game against Argentina.
The shoulder sprain occurred when he ran into a screen in the first quarter of Wednesday’s game vs. Uruguay and he played sparingly from then on, totaling just 10 minutes of playing time overall.
That would explain why he played just 10 minutes and only took two shots in the first game.
The US is 1-2 thus far in the Pan Am Games and has been eliminated from medal contention.
I have written often on THF about my father and his passing on the night of the 2005 National Semifinal. Daddy was 54 when he was suddenly taken in an accident. Losing a loved one is hard under any circumstances but I know of no case that it is harder than a loved one lost without warning and well before their time during a period of their life when they have so much to offer. It is shock from which you never can fully recover as you are set upon a turbulent ocean of unrelenting sadness and nagging questions. This is the journey Skip Prosser’s family, friends, players and co-workers embark on this evening and with each passing day beyond this one.
UPDATE: Multiple media outlets are now reporting the news. A very sad day for the Wake Forest community and the ACC in general.
The Winston-Salem Journal is reporting he collapsed during a jog and his condition is unknown.
Fox Sports has reported that he has indeed died which sadly confirms the rumors which began swirling on the message boards about an hour ago.
Prayers and condolences for Prosser’s family as well as folks at Wake Forest
Let me first say the website for the Pan Am Games stinks. Finding information on the game is somewhat cumbersome and unlike the FIBA website, the Pan Am site does not have live stats or anything remotely close to an outlet for checking a game in process. And for some reason the box scores are all really, really small which means I have to lean in two inches from the screen and squint to see that Ellington was scoreless missing both three point attempts in 10 minutes of action. He had two rebounds and one assist outside of that. Oh and the US lost the game to Uruguay(yes, Uruguay) 81-72.
Panama is next.
By the schedule makers that is. Carolina March has laid out who is NOT playing who this season and the one that strikes me the most is Boston College:
Boston College doesn’t play the dregs of the Coastal - Duke, North Carolina and Virginia. Not a promising start for the Eagles.
Based on the ACC Media predictions which may turn out to be complete horse manure, BC lines up against the top three teams from the Coastal: Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Miami. BC is also in the Atlantic which, in my opinion, rates as the toughest of the two. That means BC will face FSU, Clemson, Wake Forest, Maryland, and NC State plus the aforementioned heavyweights from the Coastal. If the ACC gets eight bowl bids then it is possible that the Eagles could play seven of their eight ACC games against a bowl team. That does not bode well for BC. Good thing they have the best QB in the league.
With the release of the media’s predictions for the ACC football season, a reader here at THF wondered how this same media did last season in predicting the ACC finish. After all these are the predictions the same writers use as the measuring stick to decide which teams are living up to par and create fodder for their own columns. So let’s put them under the microscope shall we and see if the predictions we have just been given are worth a grain of salt based on last season.
From Caulton Tudor at the N&O:
PINEHURST - There are 102 people on the ACC’s football officiating roster and about 70 on the league’s list of basketball refs.
All have undergone what commissioner John Swofford terms an extensive character check by an investigative service hired by the conference.
Yet Swofford worries.
Amid allegations that NBA official Tim Donaghy is the subject of an FBI gambling probe, these are restless days in the sports world. Donaghy is the son of former ACC basketball official Gerald Donaghy.
“It scares you to death,” Swofford said. “You hope and pray, and do everything humanly possible to try to get the very best, most upright people you can. The integrity of sports rests with the people in charge of presiding over the games and in charge of making sure it’s a fair game.
Just so we are crystal clear. When ACC officials make horrendous calls it is not because they are cheaters and on the take. It is because they are incompetent.
I suppose it is better than nothing.
…is the fact we happen to be in the same division as Duke.
You even wonder why the ACC does not have their pre-season media meetings in Raleigh or Charlotte? It likely has something to do with extracurricular activities and this year it was held in Pinehurst. That in itself is funny because there is only one reason you go to Pinehurst and it is not for the view. At any rate, following these meetings the ACC media has concluded that Virginia Tech will win the ACC Championship in football. The ACC media, who apparently did a good job not listening to anyone at the AJC, put Georgia Tech second in the Coastal Division behind the Hokies followed by Miami, Virginia, UNC, and Duke. The fifth place for UNC seems about right though if they can get their act together I think UVa might be ripe for the picking to move up to fourth.
In the Atlantic Division, Florida State was tabbed followed by Boston College, Clemson, Wake Forest, Maryland and NC State. You could also rename this the Disrespect Division since it would appear that BC, Wake and the Pack are slotted lower than perhaps they should be. BC returns a great QB and Steve Logan is the OC now which, in my opinion, makes them awfully dangerous. The Deacs win the ACC last season and they still get no respect. As for NC State, I think they could be better than sixth but then again the Atlantic is loaded so perhaps they are not being disrespected as one might think.
Football season begins in 40 days.
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