Men’s ACC Tournament simulation: Syracuse has 4:1 odds to win two games

Welcome to New York! Now get the hell out of my way on the sidewalk and walk like you’re nonchalantly fleeing a bank robbery.

The ACC concludes its two-year foray in Brooklyn this week, and the stakes for Syracuse — as has become tradition — are high: Win a game or two and NCAA Tournament inclusion comes into focus; bomb out of the bracket before the work week hits its midpoint and things become tense. This is going to be fun, in a bonkers kind of way.

In an attempt to understand how the men’s ACC Tournament bracket will unfold and assess Syracuse’s expectations, I ran a simulation of the tournament 20,000 times using ratings information from Jeff Sagarin, Sonny Moore, and Ken Pomeroy. No…