The ACC.... the best college basketball conference

KozmasAgain

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I think it is funny how many of the talking heads were saying all year that the SEC and the B1G were the best conferences. The ACC was down this year even people on this board were saying it. Now look at me now, I wonder what all those critics are saying now.
 

nccardfan

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Where’s the trophy? When the NCAAT starts, it’s about individual teams not conferences. We can’t take a bit of credit for what Duke, Carolina and Miami have done. It’s a tribute to their coaches, some of you were saying that Hubert Davis was a bust…
 
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KozmasAgain

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Nobody is taking a trophy we are just talking up the conference like SEC fans do in football. We had a bad year and with everything going on made it worse. All our detractors made the argument we are having a bad year in a weak conference. Guess what it wasn’t a bad conference after all. No it doesn’t mean we had fewer losses but it does mean we lost to good teams.
 
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KozmasAgain

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It also helps when you are recruiting a kid and you can say you will be playing in the best basketball conference in the country.
 
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nccardfan

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It also helps when you are recruiting a kid and you can say you will be playing in the best basketball conference in the country.
Nope. It only matters if you
Play for a team that makes the tournament not if you’re just in the same conference. What St Peters was in the third best conference?
 

CardsFirst

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Where’s the trophy? When the NCAAT starts, it’s about individual teams not conferences. We can’t take a bit of credit for what Duke, Carolina and Miami have done. It’s a tribute to their coaches, some of you were saying that Hubert Davis was a bust…
It’s about $$$$. They win we win. This year 220 million $ is up for grabs and a portion of that goes to the ACC, which is divided between the members.
It’s based on the number of units each conference acquire and that’s determined by the number of teams in the tournament and it increase with each win, so yes it pays to cheer on our conference members. Literally

 

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It’s about $$$$. They win we win. This year 220 million $ is up for grabs and a portion of that goes to the ACC, which is divided between the members.
It’s based on the number of units each conference acquire and that’s determined by the number of teams in the tournament and it increase with each win, so yes it pays to cheer on our conference members. Literally

It’s about $$$$. They win we win. This year 220 million $ is up for grabs and a portion of that goes to the ACC, which is divided between the members.
It’s based on the number of units each conference acquire and that’s determined by the number of teams in the tournament and it increase with each win, so yes it pays to cheer on our conference members. Literally

I love the statement that says “the NCAA urges teams to share but does not require..
 
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In hindsight, I am not so sure it was a down year for the ACC. Miami, ND, Duke and UNC success is not some strange coincidence.

Aside from the timing, specifically between the regular season vs the tournaments; one could argue based on this tournament, that both the BIG10 and the SEC had “down years”. If these conference tournaments can have that much more influence in NCAA qualification over regular season performance ……then why not use the NCAA tournament as the ultimate determination as to which conference was actually up or down?
 
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In hindsight, I am not so sure it was a down year for the ACC. Miami, ND, Duke and UNC success is not some strange coincidence.

Aside from the timing, specifically between the regular season vs the tournaments; one could argue based on this tournament, that both the BIG10 and the SEC had “down years”. If these conference tournaments can have that much more influence in NCAA qualification over regular season performance ……then why not use the NCAA tournament as the ultimate determination as to which conference was actually up or down?
I know they based the ACC being down on our losses to other P5 teams early, yet they seem to make excuses for the other conferences losses in the tournament when teams should be playing their best.
Evan Bilas was trash talking the ACC using Pitt, CUSE, GT, and us as examples since we all had losing records. Sure those programs were down, but every conference has teams that are down. Obviously our top performing teams are better than the top SEC and Big 10 teams. Just a bunch of BS excuses for them to save face
 

cardinalrod

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I'd take five final fours and two national championships in the metro conference vs cheering for other schools in the acc.
 
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