The ACC got what it deserved from the basketball selection committee. No complaints. It also, thanks to the vagaries of the bracket, has a chance to do what it did last March all over again.
While only five teams — for the second year in a row — is an aberration by ACC standards, the teams that should have gotten in did, and the ones that didn’t make a strong enough case didn’t. Simple enough.
Clemson’s loss to Louisville was disqualifying on its own, and if you’re going to play a nonconference schedule as bad as the Tigers did, you better beat everyone. North Carolina was probably closer to making the field as one of the first four out than anyone expected them to be, but the Tar Heels had a million chances to remove any doubt and never did.
