Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast · Locked On Podcast Network, Candace Cooper, Kenton Gibbs

UNSTOPPABLE: Duke Leads The Way Nearing the ACC Tournament | Who Can CHALLENGE The Blue Devils?

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SMU’s Boobie Miller is framed as the ACC guard you trust most in late-game possessions.

The ACC tournament is just five days away. The show uses that clock to sort the top of the league while the final weekend still hangs in the air. The favorites conversation sits at the center of the argument. Jackson Holzer and Kenton Gibbs keep asking who can realistically challenge the best teams once the bracket starts. That question does not stay parked there for long. It moves into the sleeper and Cinderella lanes, where the hosts test which teams have actually done enough to matter. Florida State gets the clearest sleeper treatment. The show points to the Seminoles' 9-3 run over their last 12 ACC games after a rough 0-5 conference start and 7-11 overall opening. That stretch is not built on soft wins. It starts with a surprising road result at Miami. Florida State also drops a close game at SMU. It beats Cal, which is on the bubble. It loses by three at home to Virginia. It wins at Clemson. The hosts use that run to argue that the Seminoles are hot enough to stay on the radar. They do not call Florida State a lock for the semifinal or the final. They do say the team has pretty good guard play and enough length to make things annoying for somebody. The whole segment lands as a quick bracket read that asks whether anyone in the ACC can make the favorites sweat.

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A quick ACC tournament preview that makes a solid case for Florida State as a sleeper while keeping the top four in view.

The segment frames the ACC tournament five days out by treating the top four as set and spending most of its time on favorites, sleepers, and Cinderella paths.

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