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It appears we are locked in with State in the preliminary preliminary round.
 
Yep first game of the tourney will be Wake/State. Will be at noon. Second game will be thirty minutes after. BC locked into the 14 seed as well.
 
Nothing like an enticing match up with the other "Big 4" have not, to see who can go home before 99.9% of the fans even show up.
 
This tournament should never leave NC. Stupid that it's in DC. Tickets are not going well right now.
 
I'll be there for the first time in a few years. Looking forward to this year and Brooklyn the next two. I think Brooklyn will be pretty good for tickets.
 
How was the ACCT great all those years without being in DC and Brooklyn? A real head scratcher.
 
Perfect set-up for Wake to have a great tournament! Might win our first post season game in forver
 
simosfrostyone said:
How was the ACCT great all those years without being in DC and Brooklyn? A real head scratcher.
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The ACC Tournament took it's first step towards the grave when they added the #8 vs. #9 play-in game. It took another, much larger, step in 1998 when they had the #1 vs. #9 seeds and the #7 vs. #8 seeds play on Thursday. The winner of the #1 vs. #9 game actually got a bye into the Semifinals. This stupid idea lasted for 3 years. The ACC Tourney went on life support in 2005, when the conference expanded to 11 teams. It died in 2014 when almost half of the teams in it, were not original members of the ACC. Last Rites were performed in 2015 when Notre Dame (appropriately enough) won what was once the greatest basketball tournament in the land. RIP.
 
LilburnDeac said:
The ACC Tournament took it's first step towards the grave when they added the #8 vs. #9 play-in game. It took another, much larger, step in 1998 when they had the #1 vs. #9 seeds and the #7 vs. #8 seeds play on Thursday. The winner of the #1 vs. #9 game actually got a bye into the Semifinals. This stupid idea lasted for 3 years. The ACC Tourney went on life support in 2005, when the conference expanded to 11 teams. It died in 2014 when almost half of the teams in it, were not original members of the ACC. Last Rites were performed in 2015 when Notre Dame (appropriately enough) won what was once the greatest basketball tournament in the land. RIP.
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The whole concept doesn't matter anymore. I wish they could just dump the whole thing and have a couple extra conference games to complete home-home in the unbalanced schedule.

Ideally, you would have round robin with the whole league, but that's impossible now with expansion.
 
LilburnDeac said:
The ACC Tournament took it's first step towards the grave when they added the #8 vs. #9 play-in game. It took another, much larger, step in 1998 when they had the #1 vs. #9 seeds and the #7 vs. #8 seeds play on Thursday. The winner of the #1 vs. #9 game actually got a bye into the Semifinals. This stupid idea lasted for 3 years. The ACC Tourney went on life support in 2005, when the conference expanded to 11 teams. It died in 2014 when almost half of the teams in it, were not original members of the ACC. Last Rites were performed in 2015 when Notre Dame (appropriately enough) won what was once the greatest basketball tournament in the land. RIP.
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All of which followed expansion.
 
2004 was the last great tournament. Went out with a bang with 9 teams. Will never be the same again
 
wsc8521s said:
2004 was the last great tournament. Went out with a bang with 9 teams. Will never be the same again
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Agreed. Fittingly, the team that won isn't even in the conference anymore.
 
So Barber goes for at least 40 against us in the tournament right?
 
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