cville deac
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BC is a top 40 team. If you take the top 9 teams in the ACC now and compare them to the 9 teams in the 90's that were in the ACC, I think it's likely that they are within a relative margin of one another. "Half of the ACC" having the ability to get to the Final Four these days would require 7 or 8 teams have that ability. That's simply not likely given the improved nature of mid-majors and the larger conferences. The ACC certainly has four or five teams this year that could reach the Final Four in my opinion.
I'll believe BC is ready for a Tourney berth when I see it. They're gonna have to be significantly improved from last year to be that good. In the 90s we only had 9 teams, but there were always 5-6 quality tourney teams that I'd match against the top 5-6 today in the greatly expanded ACC. And the dregs back then were rarely as bad as the large number of dregs we've had the last 2-3 years - with us, VT, BC (before this upcoming magical season), Clem's son & GT. I know I sound like an old curmudgeon, which I am. But the state of college hoops, and even more so the state of the ACC, really ain't nothing like it was between the late 70s and early 00s. Which means that if you're a completely floundering program for 4 years in this environment, then you really, really suck hairy moose cock.