Mike Brey explains why he is in favor of the NCAA tournament expanding while also expressing concern for how CFP expansion could impact college basketball. Plus, Louisville’s El Ellis on his journey from Durham to playing in the ACC.
It’s perhaps only fitting that in the year the ACC finally trashed divisions, the team most likely to win the Coastal is by multiple computer ratings the seventh-best team in the Atlantic. UNC is now in the express lane to Charlotte.
The key to the game may come down to how well the UNC defense can contain Pitt’s running game. Panthers running back Israel Abanikanda broke Ton Dorsett’s long-standing program record with 320 rushing yards against Virginia Tech.
There may not be anything in the wide, wide world of sports more unwatchable than bad NFL football, and the Panthers continue to pump out even a poor vintage of that.