IT WASN'T SUPPOSED to be this way for the ACC.
Three years after completing its expansion to improve its football reputation, there is only one ACC team in this week's AP top 25.
Raise your hand if you thought Wake Forest was the best team in the conference.
OK, No. 20 Wake may not be the ACC's best at year's end, but the league is a dud so far.
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DOWN IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, officials at the University of Virginia are dealing with a pretty big task: raise $1,025,045 today, another $1,025,045 tomorrow and another $1,025,045 the next day. Then that must be repeated, as The Post's Susan Kinzie reports, all the way into 2011, when U-Va.'s ambitious $3 billion fundraising push, started in 2004, ends. Currently, the university has raised $1.375 billion, about half its goal.
"There's a lot of pressure with this," Robert Sweeney, U-Va.'s senior vice president for development, tells The Post. Oh really? Well, at least Sweeney isn't in charge of raising $3 billion in alumni donations from George Washington University graduates, whose alumni giving comes in at a dismal 11 percent, according to the City Paper.
» "U-Va. Drive May Raise Stakes for Fundraising" [WaPo]
» "The $50,630 Question" [City Paper]
FOR LOCAL COLLEGE HOOPS fans, this year's men's NCAA Tournament will be one to watch. Area schools like Maryland Georgetown and George Washington are in, as are teams with heavy local ties such as U-Va. and Virginia Tech.
So if your team's UNC or Duke, Xavier or Oral Roberts, be sure to follow the action with our trusty bracket, available in today's editions of Express.
Left yours on the train? Print one out using the PDF page available here.
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