Acc Basketball Degenerates

Ep. 7 Live Lines! by the ACC Basketball Degenerates

It's time for performance reviews in the ACC. Virginia Tech vs. UNC, Louisville vs. Virginia, who's better? Taylor cries Wolfpack tears, Luke talks tiers, and Vegas Mike brings more fire picks.

The team argues about who's the best team in the ACC, who's in the top four, and who's fallen out. We preview the full slate of Saturday games, and analyze the performance of the league over the holiday break. Plus, a special pop quiz about basketball movies and Mike Brey's shorts.

The ACC is a little upside down: the Blue Bloods are bad, the fat middle is good. Among the league's many Covid reschedulings, Mike and Taylor discuss the most surprising teams, and who they think are really the top of the ACC so far this year. Plus, a celebration of Josh Pastner's Covid pinata and Shaq's rap career.

This unauthorized podcast is full of the stuff that doesn't make it into our normal episodes. Without Luke, Mike and Taylor go off-topic, touching on Coach K's comments about shutting down the season, Joe Harris and Kevin Durant, COVID vaccines, BYU and TJ Haws' Polish League career, and more. Think of it as the hastily put together B-Side to your favorite album.

Our ACC-Big Ten Challenge Preview...that is all folks.

Who's good? who's bad? who lost to San Francisco? The gang returns for insights on the early goings of the league, with attention to Carolina's bipolar halves, Duke's red flags, Virginia lineups and much more.

Excited for a new season, Luke finds his enthusiasm falling on the deaf ears of his colleagues who have suffered short term memory loss ever since March. But there's still enough cognizance to go over ACC top to bottom predictions, 1st teams, and a few other conferences in the season premiere of Season 6 of the ACC Basketball Degenerates Podcast.

The ACC Tournament! They call it a down year in the ACC, we just call it a gambling opportunity. Will one of the Big Four—Louisville, Duke, Florida State, UVA—cut down the nets? Or will another team play spoiler? If you ask Vegas Mike, North Carolina is poised to make a run. Others hold out hope for NC State. Most of us are out on Syracuse and Clemson, but still, we break down every single matchup in the ACC Tourney. We finish with a look around the nation at mid-majors and bid-stealers alike. March Madness is almost here—it’s ACC Tourney time!

The regular season is almost over, and that means ... conference tournaments are almost here! This week, we bask in the afterglow of the UVA win over Duke, talk about who we really think will win the ACC championship (regular season and tournament), then take a deep dive all around the nation--Mountain West, Big Ten, Pac 12, Atlantic Sun, A10, and more.

Duke, Louisville, and Florida State are in. North Carolina is out. What about everyone else in between? (Spoiler alert: most of them are out.) This week, we focus on which ACC teams have a chance to make it to March Madness. Syracuse, UVA, NC State, Notre Dame, and (maybe? possibly?) Virginia Tech all have at least a sliver of daylight. We talk about our favorites, then take a look at teams outside of the conference. We finish by picking the upcoming week’s games against the spread.

It was supposed to be the belief episode … but can we find any teams to really believe in? We talk about the sinking ships of Virginia and North Carolina, the rising star of Clemson, then we predict who will get the fourth double bye in the ACC Tourney—will it be Notre Dame, Virginia Tech, Syracuse, or NC State? Finally, we touch on the top of the league—Duke, Louisville, and Florida State—and pick all the games in the upcoming weekend.

Conference play is underway (for good this time) and the boys reconvene to talk about the bottom of the barrel, the slim list of ACC contenders, the month of January, and picks of the week.

Dearly beloved, we are gathered together this week to mourn the ACC, struck down in cold blood by the Big 10 (and some other teams too). But seriously: a lot of ACC teams have had a very bad week—except for Louisville, where the party never stops. Are we already grieving for some of these teams? North Carolina suffers two straight losses, Virginia is embarrassed by Purdue, Notre Dame loses to Boston College at home, and Florida State is waxed by Indiana. We talk about where we are in the stages of grief for these teams, and who we still believe in—like Duke?!?! We finish, as always, by picking games against the spread in the upcoming week.

It's time to preview the ACC / Big 10 challenge! We look back at all the Tropical Tournaments and ask ourselves: what do we know about this year of college basketball? Then, on to the main event: the ACC / Big 10 Challenge. Louisville takes on Michigan, the hottest team in college basketball, while Duke tries to gut it out minus Cassius Stanley against Michigan State. The team decides that the Virginia vs. Purdue game might be the lowest scoring game this year, and the UNC vs. Ohio State matchup might reveal a secretly fraudulent top-10 team. Plus, Florida State vs. undefeated Indiana, Notre Dame vs. Maryland, and all the other matchups picked against the spread.

Early season tropical tournaments are the out of conference gift that keeps on giving—something we can all be thankful for leading into Thanksgiving. The boys are all back together after Luke returns from California, and ready to dive into the Maui Invitational, Battle 4 Atlantis, Emerald Coast Classic, and more. We dip into the most juicy lines and pick games against the spread, then discuss our own Thanksgiving traditions.

Heat check! College basketball is back in full force, and we even have some ACC games under our belt. Mike and Taylor are running the show this week, for a quick dive into our reactions and overreactions from the first few weeks in the season. We break down the top of the league—Duke, Louisville, UNC, and Virginia—then ask the legendary question: Who is the line? Is it Notre Dame? Syracuse? Virginia Tech? NC State—or someone else? Plus, we pick the most interesting games with ACC teams in the upcoming week.

College basketball is back! ACC play starts on Day One! We emerge from our summer hibernation to preview every single ACC team's chances this upcoming season, and pick our favorite lines in the week 1 matchups. The Degenerates return for a season full of basketball talk, gambling, and everything ACC basketball.

Virginia wins the National Championship, and the crew recaps the game and the tournament, including Texas Tech's incredible run and the amazing finishes to UVa's games. We wrap up the season with parting thoughts, and looking ahead to an offseason pod in the next few weeks. Thanks for listening this season folks!

Final Four preview episode! First, we do a quick recap of each region, picking biggest winners and losers, and then look ahead to the Final Four matchups: how Auburn matches up against Virginia's packline D, and how Texas Tech will fare against the Michigan State Spartans. After picking the games and our national champions, we do a quick recap of the latest coaching news around the country in college basketball.