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[QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 2025117, member: 767"]
The number I had without doing any research, just my gut feeling, was 12 wins in conference.

The out of conference resume is brutal.   Just brutal.  The good news is of course the ACC has plenty of opportunities for quality wins.

Lunardi's (I know, I know) last bracketology has Pitt in, and Miami as an 8, so we have added 2 wins over tournament teams recently, albeit home wins against fringe top half of the field teams.  If you look at the rest of our schedule, we have 3 games against teams that have no chance to make the tournament (BC home, home/road Ga Tech) plus Wake Forest at home, who is #44 in KP but doesn't appear to have much of a resume.  For sake of the argument, say we win all 4 of those, that's 6 ACC wins.  Here is the rest of our ACC schedule, along with their current seed in Lunardi's field

@ Va Tech (7)
@ UNC (2)
@ Notre Dame (5)
FSU (3)
@ NC State (next 4 out)
Virginia (3)
@ Clemson (6)
@ Pitt (9)
Louisville (4)
Duke (2)
@ Louisville (4)

So 11 wins means 5 wins out of that group.  So let's say you win @ Nc State, who probably doesn't make the tournament, and then you add in 4 more wins, let's say Virginia, @Virginia tech, Louisville at home and maybe Florida State?

Does that get you in the conversation?  That's going to give you probably 6 wins over tournament teams, 1 of them on the road, and probably 2 of them over teams who will be protected seeds.  No way I'm going to project out the ACC tournament field yet, but maybe it puts you in a spot where if you add a win over a tournament team in Brooklyn you're in the convo?

Schedule for the rest of the month is @ Virginia Tech, home BC, @ Unc, @ ND, Wake, and FSU.  If they win 4 of those 6 I think you can start to think about it?  @ Virginia tech is a big one I think.
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