Will the ACC have the most teams in the playoffs of any conference? Who will they be?

Absolutely not tournament worthy:
- Clemson
- Georgia Tech
- Miami
- Notre Dame
- Pittsburgh
- Syracuse (real teams don't lose to this GT team on their home court)
- Wake Forest

(01-29-2019 09:02 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Absolutely not tournament worthy:
- Clemson
- Georgia Tech
- Miami
- Notre Dame
- Pittsburgh
- Syracuse (real teams don't lose to this GT team on their home court)
- Wake Forest

Out of all those teams, Syracuse will be the one to make the tourney.

(01-29-2019 10:03 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(01-29-2019 09:02 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Absolutely not tournament worthy:
- Clemson
- Georgia Tech
- Miami
- Notre Dame
- Pittsburgh
- Syracuse (real teams don't lose to this GT team on their home court)
- Wake Forest

Out of all those teams, Syracuse will be the one to make the tourney.

Syracuse has lately seemed to be a controversial inclusion but makes at least the Sweet 16.

Eight.

Duke
Virginia
North Carolina
Virginia Tech
Louisville
Florida State
NC State
Syracuse

Clemson has only lost to Top 50 teams, but they have lost all their games against Top 50 teams. That will keep them out.

(01-30-2019 10:03 AM)ken d Wrote:  Eight.

Duke
Virginia
North Carolina
Virginia Tech
Louisville
Florida State
NC State
Syracuse

Clemson has only lost to Top 50 teams, but they have lost all their games against Top 50 teams. That will keep them out.

I hope Clemson to have a strong finish and make the ninth ACC team to NCAA tournament. B1G will take 9 or 10 this year. Big12 will take 8.

There are 36 at-large spots available in the tournament (plus 32 autobids for champions). The Big Ten, Big 12, ACC and SEC appear likely to get 7 each, while the AAC and Big East probably have 1 each. That leaves 6 at-large spots available. If either Nevada or Buffalo were to be upset in their conference tourney, they would likely still get an at-large bid.

So, at this point in the season, it appears that bubble teams from 5 conferences are competing for 4-6 bids. These include (with their average Massey and Sagarin rank in parentheses):

Big East
St John's (46.0)
Creighton (46.5)
Butler (46.5)

Big Ten
Indiana (45.5)
Minnesota (47)

American
UCF (43)

PAC
Arizona State (48)

ACC
Clemson (45.5)

Of these, Butler, Indiana, Minnesota and Arizona State all have at least 3 wins against Top 50 teams. Creighton is 2-9 vs Top 50, while Clemson is 0-8. IMO, the Tigers are going to need several big wins in February and hope Nevada and Buffalo win their conferences to have a chance.

25 out of 32 conferences could be one bid leagues this year.

We are going to struggle to get 8.
These 7 are in:

Duke, North Carolina, NC State
Virginia, Virginia Tech
Syracuse, Louisville

FSU is 3-4 in conference and Georgia Tech is 3-5. One of those needs to pick- up 6 wins out of the next 10 conference games to get to 9 wins for The ACC to get 8 teams in.

The conference appears to be very top heavy this season.

Every team with a .500 or better record in The ACC will make tournament.

I suspect Cuse to finish out 5-5. They will squarely be on the bubble. Win one in the tourney and they are in. Cuse will still be a huge talking point among the bracketologists and talking heads (as always). I fully expect they'll make at least the Sweet 16 once again to piss off all the haters.