The improvement in ACC basketball in 2025 is unmistakable. The numbers are now available that prove it out. Is it a vintage basketball year? Not quite, but the league is positioned to get 8-10 bids as we approach the conference portion of the season.
To illustrate how far ACC had fallen, the league hasn’t been a top 4 NET/RPI league since… ever. The NET era started in the 2018-2019 season, and the ACC has never had a season where they were in the top 4 in conference rankings in the NET and RPI until this season.
WarranNolan.com is the site of reference. The ACC is ranked 3rd in RPI and 4th in the NET with a 132-45 74.5% non-conference record and a winning percentage which sits third behind the Big 12 at 81% , and Big 10 80% this year.
The league already has 13 Q1 wins, including 4 by Duke, and 12 teams ranked in the top 75 of the NET, and 7 in the top 30, with SMU at 31. Even Joe Lunardi has 8 ACC teams in his latest bracketology.
Last year, only 7 teams were in the top 75 of the NET, with just 3 teams in the top 30.
There are still 2-3 more weeks to build OOC resumes, and ACC teams will have more opportunities for quality wins in conference. You can talk all you want about fairness in selections and teams getting better as the season progresses, but the fact is, a conference narrative is set in the OOC portion of its schedule in November and December, and the ACC as a league performed this year.
The ACC is setting up for its best conference season in years.
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