Our games tend to be covered by incorrigible Pac-12 homers. They invariably sugarcoat things. Sports announcers tend to sugarcoat generally and then on top of that we get heaps of West Coast bias.
Folks keep referring to the ACC as a strong conference but that’s an old fashioned view. The ACC is nothing special in basketball. Lots of ways to slice this but I’ll just point out RPI hasn’t had ACC a top four conference a single time in the last half decade. Changing of the guard several years ago that made SEC, Big 12, and B1G significantly better. By RPI at least even the Mountain West has been better than the ACC the last three years. We’re going from one lesser power conference to another, in both basketball and football.
Folks keep referring to the ACC as a strong conference but that’s an old fashioned view. The ACC is nothing special in basketball. Lots of ways to slice this but I’ll just point out RPI hasn’t had ACC a top four conference a single time in the last half decade. Changing of the guard several years ago that made SEC, Big 12, and B1G significantly better. By RPI at least even the Mountain West has been better than the ACC the last three years. We’re going from one lesser power conference to another, in both basketball and football.