Off of a complaint over at DFIG. It is obvious that there is no favoritism towards the boys in baby blue, even beyond the ACC and Swofford. I mean, look at the brackets! You have everyone in random places such as Denver, Tampa, Detroit and UNC travels all the way to…..Raleigh. Well, ok so they get the first two games right in their back yard but they move on, if they win, to the new location. Looking at the brackets again, we see that the Heels head all the way to…..Charlotte. What the HELL!! I searched the entire bracket structure and can’t find anyone, even the #1 seeds getting that much home court favor. Leading off of DFIG’s comments about UNC bandwagonners and their ticket hoarding, this does not seem anywhere NEAR fair. I hope someone in the colleges that has to put up with this crap complains as the baby blue boys have way too much going for them in terms of favor through the regular season to keep this crap going in the tourneys as well.

But I am a biased Clemson fan, what do I know.

Yesterday’s win over Duke was certainly enjoyable.

But I really want to beat these eggheads.

UPDATE: Damn it!

In the last 10 days, the basketball team has split a set of 4 games. That leaves the team 2-1 in conference while it leaves everyone else wondering how they hell they managed to lose to Charlotte.

In brief summary:
1/6 - UNC - L, 90-88 (OT): stupid fucking overtime
1/9 - Charlotte - L, 82-72: ???
1/12 - FSU - W, 97-85 (2OT): sweet! I love overtime!
1/15 - NCSU - W, 70-54: at least we beat one team from North Carolina

In FT % summary:
UNC - 14/27 = 51.9%
Charlotte - 18/26 = 69.2%
FSU - 14/22 = 63.6%
NCSU - 6/12 = 50%

Next: Duke, in Durham, Saturday at 6PM, with cheating clock operators, and what I predict will be a 16/30 = 53.3 % free-throw shooting performance from Clemson.

I fucking hate overtime.

• The baseball team had gained some momentum before the Hurricanes came to town. That momentum is now gone, as the ‘Canes took the first and the third games of the series. Sunday’s Game 3 score was 7-6.
• The 8th ranked women’s tennis team went to Chapel Hill and kicked some baby blue ass this weekend. The #13 Tar Heels lost 6-1.
• Men’s tennis, on the other hand, lost on Friday to #2 Virginia 5-2. And they also lost to Virginia Tech 4-3. The lesson to be learned is that people from Clemson just don’t belong in Virginia.
• The bad news continues on into the world of men’s golf. The team finished 10th at the Administaff ASU Invitational. Coastal was first, UNC was 2nd. USCe finished 4th. The team did finish 8 shots better than 15th place USC-Aiken.

And for the golf team alumni at the Shell Houston Open:

• Lucas Glover missed the cut.
• J. Byrd earned $66,660 by finishing tied for 19th at -8.
• Matt Hendrix had three solid and one “oh my god what happened” rounds en route to winning $34,100 and finishing at -5.
• Charles Warren fared less well, but still made the cut. He finished tied for 66th at 2 over. His check was for $11,300.
• Finally, DJ Trahan finished all alone in the 8th spot. He was 10-under for the weekend and 11-under for the tournament. That performance was worth $170,500.

It may be worth noting that the 5 golfers above combined to win $282,500. I’m fairly certain they won more in a weekend that all the Gnomes make combined in a year. Which all goes to show that the time spent in the classroom would have been better spent harassing the cart girl.

Vegas has the spread for tonight’s game set at Clemson +4.

North Carolina is #4 in both polls, #5 in the Sportsline RPI, and #2 in the overall Sagarin ratings.

Clemson is #19 in the AP, #16 in the Coaches poll, #9 in the RPI, and 7 in the overall Sagarin ratings.

Sagarin’s predictor rates UNC at #1 with a 95.25 value. Clemson is #16 in the predictor with a 87.31 value. Even giving Clemson the 4.31 home advantage, North Carolina is favored to win.

Anything can happen, but damn I wish we didn’t have to play teams just as they come of upset losses.

Thanks to NC State blog Section Six for serving up this gem of officiating negligence.

Section Six has been on the link list for a while. I like their statistical analysis of games, which you typically don’t find in a box score or anywhere else.

Also recently added are Tar Heel Fan and ScalpEm. Both are worth checking out for getting a non-Clemson perspective of sports in the ACC.

Clemson’s future out-of-conference opponents are always up in the air, but at least we know which ACC teams we’ll play through 2015 (assuming the conference stays together).

2007 Clemson Football Scheduled Opponents (in no particular order)::
@Maryland
Wake
@ NC State
FSU
BC
@ Ga. Tech
@ Duke
Va. Tech
(OOC: Furman, UL-Monroe, some MAC team, SC)

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