Duke whining about COTY
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Maybe the fact that the ACC is the worst power 5 conference I can remember (imo) has something to do with those stats.
Congratulations to Pat Kelcey for winning tallest short person of the ACC.
Coach of the year for a team that was preseason top 5, why would he get such an honor coaching in such a weak ass conference.
Scheyer seemed like an obvious choice. Duke stomped the conference.
Pat Kelsey won because Louisville went from 8-24 last season to 25-6. Coach of the Year awards tend to find their way to coaches with huge win improvements.
It's why Kelsey is a Naismith finalist for COTY and Pope isn't despite both coaches building teams from scratch and Pope's being better by every objective metric.
Pat Kelsey won because Louisville went from 8-24 last season to 25-6. Coach of the Year awards tend to find their way to coaches with huge win improvements.
It's why Kelsey is a Naismith finalist for COTY and Pope isn't despite both coaches building teams from scratch and Pope's being better by every objective metric.
Stomped the conference? They won it by one game. Two teams were one game behind them.
Yeah it’s a crime he’s not a finalist. Especially with what he dealt with all year injury wise.
Duke won the conference by 1 game, Louisville and Clemson were in it until the end. I think Kelsey was the right choice. Tbf the schedules weren’t balanced and Duke’s margin of victory was silly. But anything that makes Duke fans mad makes me happy
Pope took a team that had a 23 - 10 record to a 21 - 10 season. I understand we had to rebuild the team and so did Louisville coach. In the eyes of the voters all they saw was 8 - 24 to 25 - 6. SEC voters did not see the win loss difference with Pope. Actually, I bet Pope could care less.
Man, I really hope they run into an 8/9 seed who just beats the crap out of them.
There is so ,UNC more to it than just the record though. He took a team many thought was nothing to be ranked the entire year, a 3 seed most likely with two major players and his backup pg out for the year. Just the record number of top 15 wins should get him a spot.
If Lunardi is correct and they face potentially UConn the 2nd round that could be a tough matchup for them.
UConn doesn’t match up well with Duke. Id take Duke by 12+ in that matchup. Duke needs to play someone with some nasty and grit to them
They have 3 decent teams this year in the ACC, the rest of the conference is trash.
IMO, sleaze bag sweaty Bruce Pearl don't deserve it either, but he does more than Jon Scheyer.
IMO, sleaze bag sweaty Bruce Pearl don't deserve it either, but he does more than Jon Scheyer.
Kelsey got it because Louisville was a complete dumpster fire for the past several years and he orchestrated one of the biggest turnarounds in College Basketball this year, if not one of the biggest in history. Not arguing that their schedule didn't have anything to do with it, because it certainly helped, but Louisville is now a fairly competitive team as much as i hate to say it.
