If you bought a ticket to Saturday’s ACC semifinal doubleheader in Atlanta, then you’re probably pretty glad you did. Both games yesterday were dramatic, well-played, down-to-the-wire contests that showed that the top of the ACC should not be judged at all by the rest of the league’s struggles. Now, today, we’ve got another great game to top it off.
Gross has the ACC lead and UNC winning the title, so a Tar Heel title will give him the ACC championship, which is nice. But, the one with the most at stake (e.g. everything) is Primm. A FSU win today and Primm will steal not only the 2012 ACC title, but also the 2012 overall title as well.
#1 North Carolina vs. #3 Florida St.
The last time these two teams met, the result was so jarring (a 33-point FSU win) that all the national stories were revolving around why we should write off UNC as a title contender and about whether or not Roy Williams has any respect for walkons. Today, the talk is about whether or not UNC can get to the #1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament if Kentucky falters today. It looked like FSU had a shot at an unexpected ACC regular season title this year, but they fell short. Now, they can at least pull off a nice tournament title if they can come through today.
Primm is the only one with FSU winning the title and will have earned both the conference and overall titles, if that prediction comes through. Half the field (Alexi, Bry, Doogan, Gersh, Gross, Lohse, Rikey, RDoc, Scoot, Stri) has UNC winning this title, including Bry, who will clinch the overall title with a Tar Heels win today.
