ACC Tournament
With the tournament looming, and the team’s NCAA aspirations hanging in the balance, I find myself right where I want to be: pessimistic to the point of not caring. Ever since the disaster against Virginia, I’ve been in a pretty bad mood. Things got worse with the lose to a miserable Wake Forest team. Things have improved though. The Tigers beat Miami and a ranked Virginia Tech team on the road. Plus after taking the league lead, Virginia got beat by the same sad Wake Forest team. Schadenfreude? You betcha.
Moving on, tomorrow the team plays Florida State at noon. Clemson is 21-9, FSU is 19-11, and both teams went 7-9 in conference play. Two of Clemson’s wins were against Florida State. Clemson tends to be ranked a bit higher by the computers, and Vegas favors them by 1.5.
In my view, there are two burning questions that have to be answered.
1.) Does Clemson have enough luck to win in what is almost a home game for Florida State?
2.) Is it worth skipping work tomorrow to watch the game on TV?
There’s no good way to predict the answer to #1. So I did what any rational person would do. I flipped a coin; heads=yes. Two flips led to 2 tails. You heard it here first.
The 2nd question isn’t as easy as it sounds. Watching the team lose is more painful than work. And as demonstrated by the coin flip, it’s going to be painful. Going back to the coin, it says to skip work.
And thus it is decided.
I’ve got the same feelings about watching Clemson lose. It’s like watching a train wreck at times–so uncomfortable and disconcerting. And yet, I watch anyway. I hope to catch the second half today.
As for point #1, man I hope your coin flip is wrong.
50% from the line. 62.5% and they are at least playing an additional few minutes of ball. Hosting an underated Mid Major team with nothing to gain and everything to lose is gonna be painful next week. Maybe we’ll get to play the two time raining NIT champs from USuCk and lay complete claim to instate basketball mediocrity. Wait, never mind, Winthrop (Bid Dance bound) would hand both teams their asses and CoC (SoCon dark horse/spoiler) would give either a run for their money right now.