ACC has been the best conference in last 3 NCAA Tournaments

[Quavarius]

 

[mo.st.dukie]

The ACC underperforms in November and December but overperforms in March. It's interesting how the early months of the season tend to dictate the narrative around strength of conferences and March tends to be forgotten. Whereas with individual teams it's the opposite.

 

[DukeDallas9192011015]

That's a great stat. However let's be honest, the ACC has been bad for a few years now overall. I don't think just the NCAA tournament is a fair way to measure how good/bad a conference is, though it is the most important time of the year. This year if you took away Duke/Clemson/UL than the ACC is a middle of the pack mid-major conference.

It's annoying because this Duke team truly is elite but this conference has only tested them a handful of times. The ACC in 2019 was an elite league still and got 3 #1 seeds that season, I think this 2025 Duke team would still go 17-3 or 18-2 in that super elite league.

We all know the reasons for the conference collapse...the football side just doesn't make as much $$$ as the other leagues have been, and we are slowly seeing the ripple effects. Combine that with every single legendary coach has left the ACC over the past 5 years, and this is the product we have.

Louisville getting back on track is nice for the league. We really need Syracuse to get good again, and 1 of the Florida schools can hopefully gain some steam as it seems like they have some NIL advantages due to football.

 

[Quavarius]

That's a great stat. However let's be honest, the ACC has been bad for a few years now overall. I don't think just the NCAA tournament is a fair way to measure how good/bad a conference is, though it is the most important time of the year. This year if you took away Duke/Clemson/UL than the ACC is a middle of the pack mid-major conference.

It's annoying because this Duke team truly is elite but this conference has only tested them a handful of times. The ACC in 2019 was an elite league still and got 3 #1 seeds that season, I think this 2025 Duke team would still go 17-3 or 18-2 in that super elite league.

We all know the reasons for the conference collapse...the football side just doesn't make as much $$$ as the other leagues have been, and we are slowly seeing the ripple effects. Combine that with every single legendary coach has left the ACC over the past 5 years, and this is the product we have.

Louisville getting back on track is nice for the league. We really need Syracuse to get good again, and 1 of the Florida schools can hopefully gain some steam as it seems like they have some NIL advantages due to football.

None of that matters when the conference has overperformed in the NCAA Tournament against expected results

 

[DukeDallas9192011015]

None of that matters when the conference has overperformed in the NCAA Tournament against expected results

Don't get me wrong, I love our NCAA tournament results. I don't really care how other ACC schools do this year as long as we cut down the nets.
But I would say that the ACC operating with $300M (not sure the exact amount) less annually as compared to the SEC or Big10 does matter and will continue to matter. The SEC got all of the top transfers this year, all of them, because they could pay them sums that ACC schools couldn't afford.
The ACC has the worst commissioner (by far) and the worst television contract (by far) of all of the big conferences. Combine that with all of the legendary coaches hanging it up and I think we have a lot of work to do to get back on top overall.

 

[bullcity gamer]

Duke, Clemson, and Louisville will all be Tough Outs in the NCAA Tournament