South Carolina ready to host if HB2 forces ACC’s hand

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — Though the Atlantic Coast Conference has not dove too far into North Carolina’s controversial HB2 Bill at its annual spring meetings at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Fla., the state of South Carolina has made it known it is open for business should a moratorium be placed on North Carolina.

ACC Championships such as the conference’s football championship game in Charlotte, N.C., and the baseball championships in Durham, N.C., could be in jeopardy after the NCAA Board of Governors passed an anti-discrimination requirement last month for sites that bid to host NCAA events.

“It is important to know, and we have stated, and will continue to state that South Carolina is…