For many of us the fun of watching the NCAA tournament is seeing how top teams fare on a national stage when challenged and prepared.
If our ACC favorites are both good and lucky we can reasonably expect one will come away with a title or, nearly every year on average for nearly 40 years, a berth in the Final Four.
Or certainly reach the Sweet 16, to which the ACC sent at least a pair of members in 37 of 46 seasons in which leagues were allowed multiple entrants in the field. That includes this year, when Florida State and Syracuse alone among seven ACC entrants won twice each in the NCAAs.