tourney
Just curious if there is an "official" terminology of who won the ACC by claiming the regular season or tournament.
tourney
~rthomas
The ACC champ is definitely the tourney champ, but many other conferences still define their official champion as the regular season champion. The ACC has a much greater history with the tournament, though, and several other conferences held out on even having one for a long time.
Pratt '09
GO DUKE!
Al Featherston had an interesting article on DBR on this very subject a few days ago.
http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/articles/?p=38995
Not only is the Tournament winner the ACC Champion as a clear matter of Conference policy, but since the league's expansion and the demise of the "home and away round-robin," this is the ONLY logical approach, because no team's regular season schedule can be identical or equal to any other's.
It has always been the tourney.
Some teams get a bit of solace hanging an unofficial Regular Season Champions banner beside their NIT Runner up banner.