Expanded ACC Disappoints

[Wulfpack]

A basketball-related expansion — an anomaly during the entire conference realignment shuffle — was supposed to culminate by making the Atlantic Coast Conference rise above other conferences. The league was supposed to be the biggest and baddest of the major conferences thanks to its first season with Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame as league members.

However, the only thing that increased was disappointment in the league’s overall showing.

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/98512/look-back-look-ahead-acc

[StateFans]

The league is going to always disappoint in this regard until the officials realize how to call fair games for everyone.

The conference would have been ‘stronger’ if NC State had been a surefire lock (and better seed) for the NCAA Tournament. That would’ve happened if NC State hadn’t had THREE games stolen from us at Wake, at Syracuse and vs UNC.

[travelwolf]

IMHO, the ACC refs don’t let enough contact happen in the games, so when we get to the national stage where refs call games more leniently, we end up losing.

[VaWolf82]

The ACC was second-rate by every conceivable metric. Piss-poor performance in the NCAAT was simply the last possible measuring stick.

[TheCOWDOG]

Team FPG OPP DIFF
1. FSU 18.1 20.7 -2.6
2. UVa 16.1 18.3 -2.2
3. SYR 16.1 17.7 -1.6
3. WF 19.3 20.9 -1.6
5. Pit 17.2 18.7 -1.5
6. NCSU 18.6 19.5 -0.9
7. VT 16.9 17.7 -0.8
7. Clem 15.7 16.5 -0.8
7. UNC 20.3 21.1 -0.8
10.Mia 15.8 16.3 -0.5
11.GT 17.8 17.5 0.3
11.ND 16.2 15.9 0.3
13.BC 18.8 18.4 0.4
14.Duke 19.5 18.7 0.8
15.Md 19.8 18.6 1.2

I draw no conclusions…other than Maryland being hosed.

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