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Message: [QUOTE="Resonator, post: 456179, member: 2824"] The bolded statement is not entirely true. Both UNC and Duke were on record as being agreeable with expansion, but, only if that meant adding just Miami. It was expansion beyond 10 teams that they opposed. What Carolina and Duke wanted, above all else, was to save the annual round-robin in ACC hoops, particularly the ones between the Big Four (UNC, NCSU, Duke, Wake). When it became clear that 12 teams was the only endgame, they proposed the pod system for hoops, for the exact same purpose. But, Maryland was the one who raised the most hell in opposition to that. They saw Duke as a major hoops rival, but, Duke did not return that feeling. Just as Townie noted. In the end, UMD got what they wanted. And, the league as a whole suffered for it, IMHO. [/QUOTE]