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Deja Vu: Lady Heels End dook Coach’s Career 😁

The University of North Carolina Women’s Soccer Team defeated dook 3-0 in the semifinals
of the national championship last night in Cary. The game was Coach Robbie Church’s
final game in 24 years as the dook coach and he cried real tears after it ended. 😢😥😢😥
Sound familiar?
Carolina plays Wake Forest for the championship on Monday evening. GDTBATH ⚽️⚽️⚽

ACC Basketball Release (12-10)

ACC Men's Basketball Quick Hits

• Duke (No. 4 AP/No. 6 USA Today) and Clemson (No. 16 AP and USA Today) are ranked in the latest national polls. North Carolina and Pitt are receiving votes.
• The Blue Devils (No. 1) and Tigers (No. 6) rank among the top 10 teams nationally in KenPom's adjusted defensive efficiency.
• Clemson's Ian Schieffelin (12.5) leads Division I in rebounds per game, while Stanford's Maxime Raynaud (11.3) is tied for fourth. Raynaud tops the nation in double-doubles (8), while Schieffelin (5) is sixth.
• Raynaud leads the ACC and ranks eighth nationally in scoring at 22.1 points per game.
• Louisville's Chucky Hepburn ranks second nationally in steals per game (3.22) and total steals (29).
• Conference play opened last weekend and resumes Saturday, Dec. 21, with four games. The bulk of league play continues on New Year's Eve. For the sixth straight season, the ACC will play a 20-game conference schedule.
• Three ACC teams have captured MTE titles this season: Boston College (Cayman Islands Classic), Clemson (Sunshine Slam in Daytona Beach, Calif.) and SMU (Acrisure Invitational in Palm Springs, Calif.).
• Following a vote of the league’s media, Duke was chosen as the preseason favorite to win the 2025 ACC Championship. The Blue Devils were followed in the poll by UNC, Wake Forest, Clemson and Virginia.

• UNC's RJ Davis and Duke's Cooper Flagg were named Preseason All-Americans by the Associated Press. Davis and Flagg also were tabbed First-Team All-Americans by the Sporting News, while Wake Forest's Hunter Sallis was a third-team pick.
• Davis is the first ACC Player of the Year to return since 2009, when 2008 ACC Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough came back for his fourth and final season.
• The conference welcomes seven of the nation’s top 26 recruiting classes in 2024, per 247Sports: No. 1 Duke, No. 7 Miami, No. 8 UNC, No. 20 Georgia Tech, No. 21 FSU, No. 25 Clemson and No. 26 Notre Dame.
• The ACC boasts seven of the top 15 freshmen in the country, per 247Sports: No. 1 Cooper Flagg, Duke; No. 6 Khaman Maluach, Duke; No. 7 Jalil Bethea, Miami; No. 8 Ian Jackson, UNC; No. 11 Drake Powell, UNC; No. 13 Donnie Freeman, Syracuse; and No. 14 Isaiah Evans, Duke.
• Four ACC head coaches are in their first seasons at the helm of their programs: Pat Kelsey (Louisville), Andy Enfield (SMU), Kyle Smith (Stanford) and Ron Sanchez (Virginia - interim).
• Miami's Jim Larrañaga (sixth, 743), Florida State's Leonard Hamilton (13th, 628), Clemson's Brad Brownell (34th, 441) and Virginia Tech's Mike Young (41st, 394) rank among the active national leaders in wins as a head coach.


Results/Upcoming Schedule

Saturday, December 7

at Wake Forest 72, Boston College 66
Clemson 65, at Miami 55
at Notre Dame 69, Syracuse 64
at No. 20/22 North Carolina 68, Georgia Tech 65
No. 18/19 Pitt 64, at Virginia Tech 59
at SMU 63, Virginia 51
Stanford 89, at California 81
at NC State 84, Florida State 74 (OT)

Sunday, December 8
No. 9/9 Duke 76, at Louisville 65

Tuesday, December 10
No. 1/1 Tennessee vs Miami | ESPN | 6:30 PM
Jimmy V Classic, New York, N.Y.
Albany at Syracuse | ESPN2 | 7 PM
Incarnate Word at No. 4/6 Duke | ACCN | 7 PM
Coppin State at NC State | ACCNX | 7 PM
Reynolds Coliseum
Cornell at California | ACCNX | 10 PM

Wednesday, December 11
UTEP at Louisville | ACCNX | 7 PM
Eastern Kentucky at Pitt | ACCNX | 7 PM
Dartmouth at Notre Dame | ACCNX | 7 PM

Thursday, December 12
Bethune Cookman at Virginia | ACCN | 7 PM
NC A&T at Virginia Tech | ACCNX | 7 PM

Saturday, December 14
Memphis at No. 16/16 Clemson | ESPN2 | 11 AM
Georgetown at Syracuse | ACCN | 2:30 PM
Northwestern State at California | ACCNX | 3 PM
NC State at No. 10/10 Kansas | ESPN | 3:15 PM
LSU vs SMU | ESPNU | 4 PM
Frisco, Texas
La Salle at North Carolina | The CW | 4 PM
Tulane vs Florida State | ACCN | 4:30 PM
Orange Bowl Classic, Sunrise, Fla.
Louisville at No. 5/5 Kentucky | ESPN | 5:15 PM

Sunday, December 15
Navy at Virginia Tech | ACCNX | Noon
Presbyterian at Miami | ACCNX | 2 PM
Northwestern vs Georgia Tech | BTN | 4 PM
MKE Tip-Off, Milwaukee, Wis.
Stonehill at Boston College | ACCNX | 4 PM

All times Eastern; Rankings: AP/USA Today

My takeaway on the team

There have been lots of questions, so I want to summarize my overall thoughts.

If you were to ask me what changes I would like to see from the coaching staff and head coach this would be the big one. I like coaches in today's game that are more analytically driven in the modern approach. Hubert Davis says he is not. He wants to play fast, but he doesn't live religiously by the numbers like Nate Oats. He can tell you after the game within a second how many 3-pointers he will take depending on the number of possessions. In other words this team can score and play fast, but there is not an analytical plan.

The roster makeup is not positional. The guards are small and the frontline obviously is not big. Alabama had athletic size and length to switch every position and still offer rim protection. It is going to be hard for North Carolina to not be mismatched in man to man defense. Then we get the lack of fundamentals and effort at times on that end that just expedites the misery. Offensively the guards are going to have to make shots. R.J. Davis continued struggles are absolutely a concern with his volume of shot attempts for one. But I get a sour taste in my mouth after the Alabama game because I think Nate Oats is the perfect basketball coach in 2024-25. I watch their actions on both ends of the court, but their roster is also analytically driven. He has the numbers to back up who he gets and why on the front end. Not nearly as much of it is based on the eye test.

Listen to one of his press conferences after a game. It's fascinating. I meant to type more, but I doing this over a short lunch break. These are just some of the quickest issues that come to my mind.
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