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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4219678, member: 1969"]
This tournament has shown a few key things regarding the ACC.

1. The top of the ACC was fine and the teams that got in were on par with others that got in.
- Duke is almost always a very good team (unfortunately)
- UNC had plenty of talent and has improved tremendously
- Miami, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech were porbably like any other 5 to 11 seed in the tournament that could literally do anything in March.   They were probably all better than their seed, but their seed was compromised by #2..

All of those teams were smeared in effect by the stupid stuff that the 9 teams in #2 below did.   Having 9 teams do stupid stuff is way to much for a power conference.

2.  The real problem with the ACC is what the middle, lower-middle and bottom of the pack were doing.   The "bad ACC teams" group is unfortunately tending in the wrong direction.   The 9 teams that had no shot at the ACC tournament and did so many idiotic things (bad losses) that it really hurt Wake, and nearly sacrificed Notre Dame and Virginia Tech.

3.  You can't say it was not a down or a bad year based on what these 5 teams did in March.   You have to look at what the other 10 did and how that impacted the group as a whole.

[B]Going forward for Syracuse #2 is much more important for us.  When you are an established top of the conference team you can largely ignore what the others are doing.   When you are in the middle (which we are at) we damn well need to be worried about the growing number of bad teams in the ACC because that will hurt us like it did Wake.   [/B]We need teams like Louisville, NC St, Georgia Tech for example to be better.   And we need Virginia not to lose to James Madison and the Citadel!  And we have to beat Colgate and an 0-20 team in the Big East.   I have written off BC and Pitt.  No expectations for them - they likely stink forever.
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