The esteemed ACC media member @ByDavidTeel (David Teel) has weighed in on the ACC’s March success this year, and it is a very good read.
It’s March, and it’s college basketball. That means the ACC should not be dismissed… ever.
Fast forward to the current bracket, light on ACC teams to start but heavy when it matters most. And it wasn’t just Duke and North Carolina.
As a 10 seed, Miami advanced to its first region final with wins over USC, Auburn, and Iowa State. Notre Dame survived double-overtime against Rutgers in the First Four and knocked out Alabama in the second round.
Moreover, entering the Final Four, the ACC is 13-3 overall in the tournament, with 14-5 its worst possible outcome. How good is 14-5? Well, that .737 winning percentage has been exceeded only twice in the past 10 years.
Not only has the ACC had a great tournament, but it’s also been one of the top performances in recent memory and continues the decades of March dominance going back to the 1980s.
The most recent decade in which the ACC didn’t own the best NCAA tournament winning percentage was the 1980s. The Big East’s was .659, the ACC’s .657. https://t.co/xBsD4iq9O6
— David Teel (@ByDavidTeel) March 30, 2022
As usual Teel nails it.
Now North Carolina and Duke will meet for the first time in the NCAA Tournament, where the winner will face another blue blood either Villanova or Kansas.
The only thing missing from this Final 4 is Villanova star Justin Moore who was injured in the Wildcats Elite 8 game.
The ACC is guaranteed a participant in the National Title for the 17th time since 1990 in the last 32 NCAA Tournaments, which is an astonishing statistic for a tournament where you have to win 5 games just to make the Finals.
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