North Carolina

This game's been circled on the calendar for a lot of college basketball fans since the season began, myself included. Two highly-ranked, talent-laden, exciting and fast-paced teams meet in a game that looks to have serious ramifications for the ACC title race and NCAA seeding when #5 North Carolina (14-1, 0-1) travels to Winston Salem to face #3 Wake Forest (13-0).

North Carolina

Wake Forest

We’re officially done with the college football season, meaning my man crush on Tim Tebow can subside, and also we can now all turn our full attention to college hoops.  Some surprises early in conference play (BC over UNC??) have made these early-conference match-ups that much more important for a few teams. Here’s a look at some games to keep an eye on.

 

1st (They're still the most talented team in the country)

2nd (Give Pitt #1 for now, but UNC's resume is still 2nd best)

3rd-4th (The lone losses by Duke or UCONN, etc, are more impressive than BC)

5th or below (Losing to BC at home? Horrible)

2009 is finally here, and that means the rush and stress of the holidays are finally over.. which means there’s no better time to grab a comfortable chair and take in some hoops. The first weekend of the year offers some great match-ups, and it’s time to start separating the contenders from the pretenders as conference play is getting geared up. Here are some big games to keep an eye on:

 

Saturday, Jan. 3

Each week, I pose a Question of the Week for you the reader to chew on and digest..

 

This Week's Question: Who is North Carolina's Best Pro Prospect?

 

Now that the presents have been unwrapped and many of you are rushing to stores for post-Christmas deals, it's time for college football to blitz into the new year with a glut of games. You can argue all day about the merits of thirty-four bowl games (personally, I think it's too many), but at the least some of these games offer momentary diversions from college basketball, which in many cases is still a week or so away from conference play.

At the beginning of the college basketball season most figured North Carolina and Duke to be head and shoulders above everyone else in the Atlantic Coast Conference. This assumption carried throug the first month of the season as well.

Wake Forest, Miami and now the Clemson Tigers are slowly beginning to earn this elite respect as well.