ACC Is Leagues Ahead
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From top to bottom ACC play, which will begin Sunday with two games, could be even more competitive than originally thought.
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The Blue Devils finished this regular season at 29-0, advancing to Fridayâs game in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament as the countryâs top-ranked team.
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They won their first Atlantic Coast Conference title in 36 years last season. They are returning eight starters on offense, including the ACC Rookie of the Year at quarterback. They are returning five defensive starters and have enough talent to make things uncomfortable for a lot of teams, including Boston College, who will be their season-opening opponent Saturday. They have ...
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ASHEVILLE - The Atlantic Coast Conference doesn&#39;t have the No. 1 team, but no other basketball league comes close to the depth the ACC showed in The Associated Press&#39; men&#39;s preseason Top 25 poll.
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Several intriguing matchups involving area teams will highlight the ACC's first football season featuring 12 teams and culminating with a conference championship game.
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Before the season began, the Virginia Cavaliers knew the road to an ACC title would go through the University of Miami. The Cavaliers just didn&#39;t know that when the two teams met it would be the Hurricanes who would be doing the chasing.
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With three regular season games remaining, the ACC's power line stretches from Blacksburg to Charlottesville, as Virginia and Virginia Tech are tied atop the conference standings.
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Teams around the Atlantic Coast Conference are getting to know about first-place Miami in a hurry. This week, the Hurricanes take their act to North Carolina, returning to the Triangle a week after defeating North Carolina State.
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Hosting Duke and North Carolina in the same week was an opportunity for Boston College to show it belonged among the Atlantic Coast Conference elite. Instead, losses to the Tobacco Road rivals dropped the Eagles from the top spot in the conference and proved that while they can play with the ACC's uberprograms, they are not one of them yet.
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Miami can still win the ACC crown by winning the remainder of its conference games. BY HANK KURZ JR. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
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TAMPA -- One day after four lower seeds advanced to the quarterfinals of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, top-seeded North Carolina made certain it wasn't summarily dispatched by holding form in its relatively breezy 73-58 victory over ninth-seeded Florida State yesterday at St. Pete Times Forum.
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It&#39;s hard to imagine, but the league that gave us college basketball&#39;s last two national champions is about to get a lot better.
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All those who turned up their noses at the prospect of Virginia Tech joining the ACC are looking pretty silly right about now. After begging, pleading, cajoling and even doing some old-fashioned arm-twisting to get into the Atlanta Coast Conference, the Hokies proved in their first season what they've known all along: They definitely belong.
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North Carolina State has the most turnovers in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Florida State is among the conference leaders in takeaways.
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In their final regular season game, the Terps hope to earn the No. 3 seed (and accompanying first-round bye) in the ACC tournament with a win Sunday over Boston College.
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Virginia Tech has staved off the late- season fade of recent years and finds itself playing Miami for the ACC title and an automatic BCS berth.
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At the end of last year, the Atlantic Coast Conference went into its offseason mode feeling reasonably good about itself in football. All 12 coaches were returning; Virginia Tech, Miami, and Florida State seemed ready to extend their leases in the neighborhood of top 10 teams; Clemson was making noises that it was ready to jump to another level; and ...