ACC thread...
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It has been a really entertaining game. One that if you didn't have a dog in the fight, you could enjoy. But high anxiety for fans of either team. Fun game.
Need to sit Proctor down and make him shoot 1000 free throws this week. Shocked how much better Duke is defensively when not running zone.
Pretty crazy that last time Duke won regular season and tourney titles in same year was 2006.
What was he crying about? I didn't hear him come up for air between sucking off Flagg and Scheyer. 😛
Yeah, but you guys still owned us for most of our run. Just shows how hard it is to win both. To do it without Cooper and Maliq is impressive, or speaks volumes about current state of the ACC, or both.
Yeah, Duke is solid on both ends which makes them elite.
Good game
Good game
This is by far the worst ACC b ball season and credit to the SEC, Big12, Big10, etc. But least not pretend that the conference will face some sort of adjustment period with the retirement of several legendary coaches. Williams, K, Boeheim, Bennett, Larranaga and now Hamilton are gone. Add NIL money and you can see where the conference will have a downturn. Even with all of that, every conference still have to deal with the success of the ACC when it comes to March Madness. I recall a year or two ago the pundits praise for the Big12 and how great a conference it is; however, they had a losing record against the ACC and then stunk it up in the tournament. Last year, the SEC had all those teams in the tourney and the majority were out by the second round. The poor, atrocious ACC just kept doing what it always does, Dominate the Big Dance. No doubt that this season is the lowest the ACC has performed during the regular season, but I expect the conference to be competing for a Natty just like in years past.
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Just for reference: N.C. State is the sixth different ACC team to reach a Final Four dating to 2015, while 10 different ACC teams reached at least one Elite Eight and three — Duke in 2015, North Carolina in 2017 and Virginia in 2019 — won the national title in that span. The ACC has 10 more Sweet 16 appearances (31) and eight more Elite Eights (19) than the Big 12 as the next closest league, while the ACC’s nine Final Fours nearly double that of the Big 12, Big East and Big Ten (each with five). Yeah, poor old ACC.
We live in a what have you done lately culture.Meaning most just care about 1-3 seasons max. SEC fans are notorious for this line of thinking.
,,,and yet the level of suckage from this conference this season is off the charts.
You are right and your point is what in regard to tournament success? However, when it counts, there is one conference above the rest. Hint, it isn't a conference with Big in its title. It isn't a conference that starts with the letter S. M, P, C etc. It is the ACC. Been that way for decades. Again, you can have all the bids in the world, but it doesn't matter if your teams can't perform when it counts the most. Maybe you celebrate your conference success by regular season W-L records. Fans of the ACC celebrate a bit different. We like 1st and foremost Chips, then Final Fours, then Elite Eights and finally Sweet 16s. I get it, if your conference hasn't been relevant in those categories, especially Chips and Final Fours, I would celebrate the regular season as well. Just saying.
And of course, it would be a UK fan. You guys are the experts on conference strength. Must be shocking to finally have a conference that is more than 2-3 team deep.
If they are going to thump their chest about a single season of regular season basketball success, they may want to brush up on that 1-3 year history. 3 years removed from 2 ACC teams playing in the Final Four... one in the championship. 1 season away from 1 ACC team playing in the Final Four. And that was after another team played in the FF the season before. 5 years away from an ACC team winning it all. And yet that 3-year scope is not that flattering for the SEC. Just saying.
Where is UCLA fans to ask if anyone have 11? See how that works. Aren't you the "what have you done lately conference" or do you want to move the goal post again. Great UK has 8 titles. Good for them. But we were talking about conference success in the tourney. By the way, when was the last time UK sniffed a title, a FF? Was it in that 3 year scope? No need to respond... it was 2015 when an ACC team won the title. Title number 8 was 2012. Since that is cleared up, let's get back to the topic at hand. Conference regular season success vs conference tourney success.
Dude you guys can get 20. As long as we continue to dominate the tourney and win it all or make the FF or elite 8, yall can continue to show the overhype associated with a conference regular season record. Strange, since when is the journey more important than the actually end goal? A famous football coach, that's something you should be familiar with, well at least from the fact that lesser SEC football programs get to chant SEC, SEC... I digress. A famous football coach once stated, "That's why you play the game!!!". The season is played to get to those chips. That is why you brought up UK's 8 chips right? Low hanging fruit.
Nope, just pointing out that when you're the leader in all-time wins and got 8 titles to boot, conference strength is irrelevant.
I know you don’t post here often, Kentucky fans are more SEC fans now. It’s comical how that has transferred over to basketball from football. They are the new Vanderbilt, without the smarts though.
So you're an ACC dick rider. I thought that was only SEC fans. I could have sworn I read that somewhere.
@rockycard @GhostOf301
BTW, you missed my point completely. NVM.
Nah, I am a truth teller. All of the information pertained to the tourney and why the ACC dominates all other conference success regardless of conference strength and number of teams invited to dance. If that's dick riding so be it. Still doesn't negate the facts.
Winning is always a good thing; however, that has nothing to do with this so-called discussion. I am sorry facts got in your way. Just as a refresher, the topic was regular season conference success vs conference success in the tournament. Nothing more, nothing less. Stop trying to move the goal post again. Enjoy the SEC regular season success. Let's see if inviting 14 teams to the tourney will result in the same success that the ACC routinely display during this time. For you, SEC fan, there will not be any early exits like last season. Sorta like when lottery teams get all those ping pong balls and never get the #1 overall pick. Maybe that should be the goal. Getting more than a couple of teams beyond round 2.
I'm surprised at some of the UK fans jumping on the conference bandwagon. Your history is good enough to where some of you don't need to do that but.
Now fans from teams that have no/little history I can see them doing that.
SEC fans are known for bandwagon. A little surprised some UK fans using it.
They used to just come out when their teams were doing well against UK. Then morphed into others. Now....
Do you work for the ACC? This is some high level damage control. After a year where the conference flat out sucked, you dredge up this stuff? If saying that the SEC was the best conference this year is conference honking, what do you call what you're doing?
As I've already told the guy... when you're the program with the most wins to go along with 8 titles, I don't see where conference talk and how well they've fared in past NCAA tournaments is even relevant.
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