Fanhouse did a great recap of summer activities around the ACC schools. Here is a quick snippet, but check out the full article for power rankings, players to watch and more.
They say there's an offseason in ACC basketball. Then again, they say a hummingbird flaps its wings 100 times in a second.
It just so happens both are entirely too fast for the human eye to see.
With apologies to Johnny Cash, since Duke cut down the nets in April, the league has been everywhere, man. North Carolina has hosted 10 practices, gone to the Bahamas and returned. Duke's Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith, as well as Florida State's Chris Singleton were on the USA select team squaring off against Mike Krzyzewski's Team USA squad in Las Vegas and New York. Singleton was at LeBron James' skills academy, Miami's Durand Scott hooped it up in New York's Dyckman league, while Georgia Tech's Iman Shumpert, Duke's Plumlee brothers and others spent time at the Chicago Adidas Nations event.
And the rest of Tobacco Road's best spent their nights plugging away in the SJG Pro-AM, which bills itself as the Rucker of the South, but might as well call itself the summer ACC.
So, what's changed since our spring round up? Not nearly as much as the league's frequent flier status. Predicting the ACC is still more along the line of explaining string cheese than string theory (Pick Duke or North Carolina, winners of 13 of the last 14 ACC tournaments then scatter some order of Virginia Tech, N.C. State and Florida State behind.)
Check out the rest of the article here.
