I believe I heard that this is the first time a team has won 5 games in 5 days to win the ACC Championship. The Wolfpack held off a couple of UNC runs to claim their first ACC Tourney title since 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They probably needed to with the way the day has been going – I am not sure there is a bubble left. If the last few days is representative of what will happen in the tournament, it is going to be totally wild. Lets take a moment to appreciate the madness. Going into the week, the 6 major conference regular season champs looked like they would be fighting it out for the 4 final top seeds. Then, Arizona and Tennessee lost. So, it seemed clear that UConn, Houston, Purdue and UNC would be the top seeds – and that probably is still the case. But how often do we see 5 of the top 6 teams in the country lose in their conference tournaments – where only one of those 5 losses were to a ranked team. It is close to the equivalent of having 2 of your 1 seeds and 2 of your 2 seeds lose to double digit seeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We knew the Atlantic 10 would have a team stealing a bid. Then, FAU lost to Temple – meaning a team is stealing the American bid. New Mexico won the Mountain West – taking their bubble decision out of the committee\u2019s hands. Obviously, the Wolfpack as the ACC 10 seed are a surprise. And just now, the Oregon Ducks – who are down to 8 scholarship players due to injuries – have just stolen the Pac 12 championship with a victory over Colorado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am concerned I will not even get a bracket finished at this point and certainly don\u2019t think I will do well. Congratulations to the Lobos, Wolfpack and Ducks – they will be dancing on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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