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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4219229, member: 1969"]
Fair enough on the bolded part.  I apologize for two things:
1) I was unnecessarily annoyed by a few posts 
2) Although I had laid out the definition of the "Good/bad: data in prior posts, I failed to include it in those posts -- and that was important to the data.

Those were not records between the conferences.  The good wins were largely between the group, but the bad losses were largely from teams outside of the power conferences and in most cases non tournament teams.   (The bad losses against tournament teams would have been teams seeded like 14 or lower... like a Colgate at home for example, or a Wright St loss)

So the ACC didn't really challenge themselves any harder / less harder than the others.

I'm not even sure if the ACC as a whole really improved that much (they probably did to some extent vs others)...  I beleive it was more a case of the ACC's poor middle of the pack and the # of bad teams compared to prior years starting to become a real problem.    The good teams were still pretty good (as we are seeing now), but the middle of the back and the really bad dragged down everybody.    It was a bit of a problem in 2021 and became a real problem in 2022.

It's great that the top teams are doing well now.    But if our middle teams don't start doing better, and we don't start lowering the amount of bad teams, the ACC will continue to run into this problem.  Which is a problem for Syracuse moving forward.

Will expand on this later.   Going for a bike ride!
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