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Steve Wiseman

ACC teams need Quad 1 games to make NCAA Tournament. That means tougher nonconference games.

With college athletics experiencing seismic shifts in every area due to the transfer portal and NIL, men’s basketball scheduling is going through changes of its own.

That’s particularly true in the ACC this offseason as coaches and administrators work to increase the number of teams the league places in future NCAA Tournaments.

The last two seasons, the quad system designed around the NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) ratings left the ACC wanting. Only five league teams, out of 15 schools, made the 68-team tournament in each of the past two seasons.

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