Seven ACC teams made the big dance and four didn't make it past the first round, most notably Wake Forest being thumped by Cleveland State. If you go buy tournament results you'd have to say that so far the vaunted depth and parity of the ACC was vastly overrated. Personally I think a better gauge is the overall record of the conference's teams versus non-conference opponents during the season, but since so much emphasis is put on the tournament you can't totally discount the idea that the ACC teams are second-class citizens in March. My reply is this: does anyone really believe that, despite winning the ACC tournament, Duke is a better team than North Carolina?
As for Wake I want to say only one thing: one of the reasons they were beaten so handily was that they couldn't stop two players from having all-world games against them. Although Wake's defense is much improved this season they seemed to have a habit of letting players "go off" on them. Hopefully for next season they'll find someone that they can designate to lock down on other teams' go-to players much like their opponents did to Jeff Teague at the end of this season and during the tournament.
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You’re right about the ACC. As for Wake I would add, I said this after Wake beat UNC & Duke, Wake has learned how to compete, learned how to win, but I don’t think they learned how to handle winning especially once they became the hunted rather than the hunter. When I saw them it looked like they were believing the hype and thought they were good rather than proving they were good.
For full disclosure I am a big UNC fan. I love the Heels but I do not like THIS UNC team. Reason being, the disappearing act on the defensive side of the ball. Maybe Roy’s fast, fast,run, run, run, offense leaves them with little energy to play defense. Maybe they just won’t play “D”. If they go all the way I’ll (A) be shocked and (B) will gladly eat crow. Ty Lawson playing or not. No defense, no championship. Simple.
Agree re. defense. Actually I think that describes the entire conference.
There’s a reason most of the games ended up 80-ish to 70-ish. One of the
reasons I’ve felt the Big East was the best conference this season is that
most of their teams seem able to score AND play defense.