This is one of Bleacher Report's "bold predictions" for the start of the new year.
The ACC will put ten teams into the NCAA tournament:
"The fact Georgia Tech is even in talks for a NCAA at-large bid says as much about the Yellow Jackets as it does about the ACC’s power in numbers.
Getting 10 teams in the tournament isn’t outlandish in this particular year, when the Pac-12 doesn’t seem as strong and not as many of the middle-tier conferences will figure to suck up as many bids (the West Coast Conference, for example, looks clearly like Gonzaga’s turf even with the Bulldogs down—and neither BYU nor Saint Mary’s is putting together incredible early-season portfolios).
Tech has defeated Tennessee and VCU on the strength of an improved offense that has avoided some of the snake bites of last year's struggles in close games.
We know the ACC is loaded—North Carolina, Miami, Virginia, Pittsburgh, Duke, Louisville and an improved Wake Forest. This is a league that could cannibalize itself a little bit over the next couple of months.
That could mean some bad things when we start talking NCAA tournament seed lines. As for bids, however, a perfect storm could be gathering for the blue-blood league to get a hefty number of teams in the field."
Although relatively meaningless, a media outlet out us in a grouping with Duke, Miami, UNC, Virginia, and Louisville. That's quite the step from year one to year two for manning. The Deacs are getting a little bit of recognition.
