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Why ACC Basketball Is The Best

Heather Grace
Jan 13, 2015
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Why ACC Basketball Is The Best

Everyone has a favorite team, and everyone has a favorite conference. But the ACC will always be best when it comes to basketball. The best coaches, insane players, intense games, and dedicated fans. Why?

The ultimate rivalry. UNC and Duke. Just nine miles away from each other, the two schools were ranked by Sports Illustrated for having the third best rivalry of all time and were ranked tops for basketball rivalries by many sources, including Bleacher Report.   


Crazy yet amazing fans. Everyone is so involved in the games and everyone wants to be there. 

UNC rushing Franklin Street after beating Duke.


The infamous Cameron Crazies.


Clemson Tigers.


Michael Jordan.


Amazing players. The best player in basketball history came out of the ACC, not to mention others such as Tim Duncan, Grant Hill, Ralph Sampson, David Thompson, and many more. Duke and UNC have more current NBA players than any team, except Kentucky.     

The coaches. The ACC has three coaches (Coach K, Duke; Roy Williams, UNC; and Jim Boheim, Syracuse) who have  seven of the 17 National Championships won by active coaches. They are all in the top four of the most NCAA tournament wins of all time.   

  


An insane amount of wins. There are four teams with over 2,000 wins, and the same four teams have an over 70 percent win percentage in their history. Two of the four are ACC teams -- UNC and Duke. The ACC has six of the top 11 teams with the winningest programs.     

So if anyone ever tells you that ACC basketball is not the best, they are crazy -- or go to an SEC school.

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