ACC Tourney

[Northeast Stinger]

Inexplicably this makes me sad.

 

[Buzzbomb]

I like our chances vs FSU more than UNC

Especially, if UVA and Puke shared that same locker room.
Would not mind an a-symptomatic player on Cheats or Free Shoes, testing positive. ACC Champs, GT, sounds perfect.

Side note: my son tested positive this week, with none of the symptoms.

 

[D-man44]

Really don't want an asterisk next to an ACC Championship.

oh no we can sell an acc championship where we beat FSU or UNC to recruits don’t want that.

 

[GTbball2016]

I want them to win the championship game though and not get the freebie

 

[slugboy]

Classy statement by GT President:

 

[GTBatGirl96]

Especially, if UVA and Puke shared that same locker room.
Would not mind an a-symptomatic player on Cheats or Free Shoes, testing positive. ACC Champs, GT, sounds perfect.

Side note: my son tested positive this week, with none of the symptoms.

Oooh, sorry about your son. I hope he gets through ok.

Man, if we get acc champs by default, a year after serving our postseason "ban" for a canceled tournament, that's some 4D chess our coaches are playing (kidding, but not really).

 

[Dobeedobeedo]

UVA had a positive COVID.

 

[MidtownJacket]

My goodness this is all terrifying

 

[crut]

My understanding with NCAAT protocols is that a positive test doesn't knock other players out. If a person can get there 7 consecutive negative tests, they are still good to go.

 

[lv20gt]

We have gotten really lucky the past couple of weeks when it comes to the ACCT. It doesn't take away from our run, but we needed Clemson to lose and they did @Cuse. We needed UL to lose and they did. Then we got to face the only first day team to make it to the quarters and benefit from them having tired legs. Now the team who beat us twice gets covid and we go to the finals where we'll have an extra day rest facing potentially a team playing it's 4th game in 4 days.

I really, REALLY, don't want whoever we face to pop for covid. That wouldn't be earning a championship and I want our guys to earn it. It will already somewhat feel tainted but even more so if we won the ACCT just by beating the 13th seed.

 

[MidtownJacket]

This 7 days of negative tests requirement is doing some wild stuff. Just hope we can stay clean.
Also to any hater anywhere saying we don’t deserve this - take a long hike off a short pier.

 

[boger2337]

Let's go!!!!!!

 

[Southpawmac]

This cancellation puts us right in the 8/9 seed territory with a win in the title game. A win against UVA and FSU could've gotten us to a 7 or 6 seed. Without the UVA game, I don't see us getting that high.

 

[MountainBuzzMan]

CJP playing chess with Covid while others play checkers

 

[MonroeJacket]

Oooh, sorry about your son. I hope he gets through ok.

Man, if we get acc champs by default, a year after serving our postseason "ban" for a canceled tournament, that's some 4D chess our coaches are playing (kidding, but not really).

Right...if we played ONE ACCT game in two years and came out with a title. Wild!

 

[Techster]

Just win and survive has taken on a whole new meaning...

 

[MidtownJacket]

We also got really unlucky with the scheduling (playing the top teams in conference and almost none of the basement; the stretch of games with little to no rest; inability to make up games we felt we needed).

If the season as a whole gets a note as uncommon then fine, but to suggest we didn’t earn what we got is foolishness. We played the same crappy hand everyone else did due to Covid this year. Took some early loses due to overcompensating our avoidance plan and battled back.

This team deserves every recognition we get this year and more.

 

[Techster]

We also got really unlucky with the scheduling (playing the top teams in conference and almost none of the basement; the stretch of games with little to no rest; inability to make up games we felt we needed).

If the season as a whole gets a note as uncommon then fine, but to suggest we didn’t earn what we got is foolishness. We played the same crappy hand everyone else did due to Covid this year. Took some early loses due to overcompensating our avoidance plan and battled back.

This team deserves every recognition we get this year and more.

GT has earned everything we've gotten this year. Anyone who disagrees needs to look at this stat:

 

[lv20gt]

This 7 days of negative tests requirement is doing some wild stuff. Just hope we can stay clean.
Also to any hater anywhere saying we don’t deserve this - take a long hike off a short pier.

To me this isn't a good thing for us. Our players deserve to be able to go out and win a championship on the court. And of course they can do that tomorrow, but they don't need the fact that the #1 seed who beat us twice popped for covid right before our game in their head. You want there to be no doubt, and unfortunately, because of this there will be doubt.

 

[g0lftime]

So a friend was saying Duke made a big deal about not staying in Greensboro for the tournament but commuting from Durham instead. If that's the case, and they end up as the only team who withdraws due to covid, that's gonna be pointed to as a crucial mistake. If you're deciding to just commute, I would assume your other protocols aren't that strict.

They had a cluster of 102 students test positive. Must have included some athletes. Lots of off campus partying.