{"id":36612,"date":"2023-02-26T10:53:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T15:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/?p=36612"},"modified":"2023-02-26T10:53:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T15:53:28","slug":"lazy-narrative-on-acc-basketball-hurting-national-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/2023\/02\/26\/lazy-narrative-on-acc-basketball-hurting-national-perception\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Narrative on ACC Basketball hurting national perception."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ACC-F-10.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"36617\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/2023\/02\/26\/lazy-narrative-on-acc-basketball-hurting-national-perception\/acc-f-663\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ACC-F-10.png?fit=570%2C376&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"570,376\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"ACC-F\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ACC-F-10.png?fit=300%2C198&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ACC-F-10.png?fit=570%2C376&ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36617\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ACC-F-10.png?resize=300%2C198\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ACC-F-10.png?resize=300%2C198&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ACC-F-10.png?w=570&ssl=1 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you heard? ACC Basketball is so bad this year. It should be a 3 bid league. Its conference ranking looks more like a mid-major. It’s trash. It’s garbage.<\/p>\n<p>Last year we heard the same narrative as the ACC went on to dominate the NCAA tournament with 3 Elite 8 teams, 2 Final Four teams, and the best record (14-5) of any conference in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>This year the lazy takes are even worse because they don’t match what has happened on the court.<\/p>\n<p>The ACC has some warts. That is not a question. The bottom of the conference is atrocious. Louisville still has a NET in the 300s. Florida State, Georgia Tech, and Notre Dame are all 175+. That’s some serious dead weight that is pulling down the conference metrics.<\/p>\n<p>With that out of the way, making sweeping generalizations on a 15-team league based on 4 teams with terrible computer metrics is simply not looking deep enough at the league.<\/p>\n<p>I’m not saying the bottom-of-the-league results don’t count. They do, but there are enough other results that you can’t argue the league as a whole is in the bad shape some suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the reality…<\/p>\n<p>The ACC went 108-52 OOC this year.<\/p>\n<p>35% of those losses are just from Florida State and Louisville!<\/p>\n<p>That means the rest of the league went 104-34 OOC. The OOC winning percentage goes from 67% to 75%<\/p>\n<p>The Big 10 is ranked 2nd in the NET rankings, and most bracketologists have them as a 9-bid league.<\/p>\n<p>Including the bottom of the ACC, the ACC won the ACC\/Big 10 Challenge 8-6, and that was without 22-win NC State being in the challenge. The ACC and Big 10 have played 25 total games against each other, and the ACC has a 13-12 record against the Big 10.<\/p>\n<p>If 25 games can’t tell you something about a league vs league nothing will.<\/p>\n<p>Well the ACC can’t compete with the top teams in other leagues.<\/p>\n<p>Baylor is 10-6 in the Big 12, and in the top 10. Virginia beat them.<\/p>\n<p>Nine teams in the Big 10 have winning conference records, an ACC team has defeated six of them.<\/p>\n<p>A middle-of-the-ACC pack North Carolina took Alabama to 4 OTs before finally losing.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on and on, but if I need to just try and convince you the ACC is pretty darn good 1-10 then you just don’t want to believe it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Make sure you follow the All Sports Discussion Twitter account at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/allsportsdacc\">@AllSportsDACC<\/a>\u00a0and please like our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/All-Sports-Discussion\/184935911533629?fref=ts\">Facebook Page.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<br>\n<center>\n\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- Bottom_Post -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px\"\n data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1227879969298088\"\n data-ad-slot=\"1445137322\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n<br>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\n<!-- Horizontal_6 -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px\"\n data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1227879969298088\"\n data-ad-slot=\"4619304738\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n\n\n<\/center>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard? ACC Basketball is so bad this year. It should be a 3 bid league. Its conference ranking looks more like a mid-major. It’s trash. It’s garbage. Last year we heard the same narrative as the ACC went on to dominate the NCAA tournament with 3 Elite 8 teams, 2 Final Four teams, … <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/2023\/02\/26\/lazy-narrative-on-acc-basketball-hurting-national-perception\/\">Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acc","category-college-basketball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Ih8i-9ww","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36618,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36612\/revisions\/36618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsportsdiscussion.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}