What is normally one of the quietest weeks of the ACC basketball offseason turned out to be not only busy, but historic.
While Miami was busy salvaging the ACC’s reputation by keeping the league’s Sweet 16 streak alive — not to mention extending the Hurricanes’ own Elite Eight streak to two Friday night — the ACC at large took a giant step toward diversifying its ranks.
Now that Micah Shrewsbury’s hire has been finalized at Notre Dame — an absolute slam dunk for the Irish — all three men’s basketball head-coaching vacancies this cycle have been filled by minorities, and in the space of a month the ACC went from six Black coaches to nine, now officially majority-minority. It’s a long way from 2019, when there were only two Black coaches in the ACC, or 2021, when there were only three.
