ACC Basketball 'Bubble Watch' Illustrates Possibility of Disaster

Posted Feb 13, 2025
In the 1980s, when the Atlantic Coast Conference consisted of eight schools, the league’s teams sometimes collectively earned only four invitations to the NCAA Tournament, but it still was considered a successful season. This season, with the ACC now an 18-school monstrosity, only four bids to the Big Dance would be an unprecedented disaster. (Chapelboro.com)

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