Friday? Go out, have a blast, the weekend is ahead of you. Sunday? Rest up, take a load off, prep for the next week. Saturday? Saturday is wall-to-wall hoops of a high-quality vintage.
Remember: with college hoops, the NFL, college football and any NHL/NBA interests you might have, there’s just so much. So much to watch, keep track of, gamble on (if that’s your thing), tweet about while you can. You’re but one person, with a phone and a tv and a laptop, maybe an iPad, perhaps another tv or two… my point is, you have a finite number of screens to devote to Division I hoops the next couple of days. Let me help you with your weekend viewing plans.
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As always, the weekend starts at 7 p.m. ET on Friday; apologies to Western Michigan and Toledo, who jumped the gun by a mere half-hour this week.
Must Watch (Times ET)
Clemson at Pitt, 4 p.m., Saturday (ESPN2)
I am just as surprised as you.
Facts are facts, and they are thus: Clemson and Pitt, both 4-0 in league play, are the last unbeatens remaining in the ACC. Clemson achieved this in part with wins against Virginia Tech (good) and North Carolina State (good, and also thrashed Duke Wednesday night); Pitt beat NC State and then one-upped Clemson with back-to-back ranked wins against North Carolina and Virginia.
The Panthers have won three straight one-possession games to get to this point, and Clemson has some skeletons in its early-season closet (loss to South Carolina, loss to Loyola Chicago), but this is not the ACC of yore; this is transitional ACC times, when Roy and Coach K are out and Hubert Davis and Jon Scheyer are in and a Leonard Hamilton team is seven games under .500 in January.