The Atlantic Coast Conference is trying to bolster its chances of getting more bids to the NCAA Tournament. League coaches and officials have spent months trying to change perception of the ACC's strength. That comes after the ACC has managed just five bids in each of past three men's tournaments.
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The league keeps winning in March in spite of having three straight seasons with just five bids from its 15-team membership, which has expanded with the “But I got it, you can’t be so stubborn. I think you have to adjust and you have to change some of your ways in how you’re attacking it and that’s what we did this season.”
And that success has been spread across the membership: 10 different programs have reached at least one Elite Eight, six going to the Final Four. That work has already begun, such as N.C. State scheduling a series with national power Kansas, Wake Forest with Michigan, and Pittsburgh with Ohio State, all starting this season.
It would help, too, if two of the ACC’s top brands returned to perennial success in Syracuse and Louisville. Autry’s Orange last played in the NCAAs in 2021, while the Cardinals last went in 2019 and have gone 12-52 the past two seasons for the worst 2-year stretch in program history.
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