Gary Williams

**pvfan** · February 7th, 2008, 01:24 AM

Lost in all the UNC/Duke talk Gary Williams won his 600th game tonight on the road at Boston College. The win gave Maryland sole possession of third place in the ACC and imo allows Maryland to play just .500 from here on out to make the NCAA Tournament. Maryland has far fetched as it may be is also only one game out of second place and would hold a tiebreaker over UNC if it came to that. Should be a fun second half of the ACC.

Duke 8-0
North Carolina 6-2
Maryland 5-3
Clemson 4-3
Virginia Tech 5-4
North Carolina State 4-4
Georgia Tech 4-4
Wake Forest 3-5
Boston College 3-5
Florida State 3-6
Miami (FL) 2-6
Virginia 1-6

**1inStripes** · February 7th, 2008, 02:22 PM

How many ACC teams do you think will make the tournament? This may be the weakest the ACC has been as a whole in a long time.

**CoeburnCane** · February 7th, 2008, 03:37 PM

Congrats to Williams--he's already one of the best in the game and will likely go down as one of the greatest ever.

I think the ACC ultimately gets 5 in. There's a lot of mid-majors overachieving right now, and specifically, the A-10 as a whole is overrated. Lunardi's predicting 4 teams in from the A-10 and only 3 from the ACC. I think eventually, once we see how all the teams have played thru their conference seasons & tourney's that the committee will give credence to how competitive the ACC is this year. I think you'll see either VT/NCSU/GT make a run in the 2nd half of the ACC play, and the top 4 will stay as-is. That fifth team will be a bubble team, but if it comes down to one of those 3 teams against a mediocre A-10 team, I think the ACC squad gets the nod.

**gcdevil22** · February 7th, 2008, 03:40 PM

if the ACC is the weakest its been then the entire nation is the weakest its been as well...ACC was still #1 in terms of rpi

the only problem is 3-10 are dead even, so they've beaten each other up all year...IMO ACC gets 5

**1inStripes** · February 7th, 2008, 03:43 PM

I am thinking 4 or 5 as well depending on how the tourney goes.

I am not saying the ACC is horrible, Im just saying it isn't as strong as it has been in the past. You really have 2 teams this year and then everyone else it seems like. Parity has leveled the playing field across the nation in basketball. The Big East isn't as good as it used to be. The Big Ten is awful to be honest.