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Message: [QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 4219173, member: 6357"] Great post. And I don’t disagree at all. We all knew the poor non conference performance would bite us in the butt come tourney selection time. My point is that posters were being wildly hyperbolic and the chatter was completely over the top about it being the worst ACC ever in terms of quality. Everyone acted like all the teams stunk except Duke. It became hardened conventional wisdom, and I thought it wasn’t accurate. Part of it was bad luck and part of it was youth and inexperience and integrating transfers on the top teams in the early going. And historically, I recall the ACC having a number of really bad down years about a decade ago before the infusion of Big East programs in 2013-14. In one or two years they got only like 3-4 teams in the tourney. Indeed that’s why Syracuse, Pitt and ND joining the conference was so touted. [/QUOTE]