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ACC Recap: NCAA Tournament Week 1

So... the ACC didn’t have the greatest first couple of days in the NCAA Tournament, huh? Despite three of the top four overall teams in the tournament being from the ACC, the conference faced a lot of scrutiny this year for being top-heavy with not too much quality past the top four or five teams. Some of us, myself included at times, dismissed this as the kind of talk that the best conferences always get. The ACC landed 7 teams in the tournament, which wasn’t great but was still second only to the Big Ten. Their performance in the first weekend, though, wasn’t exactly inspiring.