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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4081829, member: 1969"]
Forgot to respond to this yesterday

I didn't follow thing closely at all last year until about February where I largely relied solely on the Bracket Matrix.   The Matrix is a great tool to throw in somebody's face when they say you have no chance.    You can take the last team in compare it to us, and show that the gap is not huge.

So I don't remember where the ACC was last year at this time.  That being said there was maybe half (or less) OOC games last year in comparison to normal years, so I think that may have impacted things a lot.

In terms of the #1 vs #6 in rankings.   It depends on the delta between #1-4, and #6.

I know I look at conference RPI for this (I don't see Conference NET out there), but I think the NET reacts similarly when considered on a "conference aggregate" scale and impacts Q1/Q2 win opportunities similarly,

Top 4 conferences have RPI's at .588, .582, .574, .573.   The ACC is at .553.   I know that does not seem huge but the average of the top 4 is .579... the difference of .026 looks small but that is a pretty big gap between the top and #6.   You see that gap in years in the P-12 gets hammered for example or when BIG got hammered.   Wish I could find archives of where the conference RPI was in prior years to validate this observation, because I am working off memory here, and that can never be 100% certain.
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