(01-26-2020 12:09 PM)bill dazzle Wrote: Comparing the ACC to the SEC in hoops is somewhat like doing the same thing with the leagues in football. In other words ... the comparisons rarely work well. The ACC is down this year in hoops but is still typically the best basketball league in the nation year in and year out.
The ACC has six programs that would rank in most folks' all-time Top 25: Duke, Syracuse, Louisville, North Carolina State, Notre Dame and North Carolina.
The SEC has two: Kentucky and Arkansas.
That's true, but surprisingly, the national championships between the conferences is pretty close, in terms of conference affiliation at the time the title was won, the ACC has 15 NCAA titles, the SEC has 11. And that lead has really been generated the last few years, i.e., as of 2013, it was 12 to 11 in favor of the ACC.
Overall, here are the NCAA hoops titles won by conference:
PAC ... 15
ACC ... 15
SEC .... 11
B1G ...... 10
Big East ... 8
Big 8/Big 12/SWC ... 3
The trend definitely favors the ACC, though. The ACC has won 8 national titles since the PAC won its last in 1997 and the B1G won its last in 2000.
IOW's, at the turn of this century, the PAC had 15 titles, the B1G 10, and the ACC had just 7. Now the ACC has 15.
Even in football, recent years have been a boon for the ACC. While the ACC has won 8 coaches or AP football titles overall, three of them have been won the past seven seasons. So five titles in the 60 years between 1953 and 2012, and three since.
Basically, combining hoops and football, 6 of the 23 overall titles the ACC has won have been in the last seven seasons.
The ACC has also bought itself a lot of legacy in the form of expansion, via the additions of teams like Miami in football and Syracuse and Louisville in hoops. To date, however, none of them have contributed a national title to the ACC.