on the schedule, we had one of the easier, if not the easiest ACC schedule. We played the following teams twice:
Virginia
Georgia Tech
Pitt
BC
Notre Dame
Virginia Tech
Outside of Virginia not much there of the upper echelon teams in conference. Also remember we went 0 - 4 against power 5 conference teams in non league action and this is really where the season was lost.
Maybe if we had defeated a Virginia Tech or Notre Dame first time around (remember Va Tech literally had 4 scholarship players left when the new coach came in) and maybe if we went 2 - 2 vs power 5 out of conference, the tourney chances would have looked much better (assuming it was played). We were not even in the discussion. Maybe some better coaching first time (or only time) would have helped.