Devilhawks
01-06-2009, 02:50 PM
He makes some good points about all six major conferences. He evens brings up the idea that pound-for-pound, the ACC may be better than the Big East.
For those of you that are not ESPN Insiders, here is the ACC section:
What we think
Despite the overall depth of the Big East, the ACC has the top conference RPI. In fact, it is easy to see why as UNC, Duke and Wake Forest are all top 5 teams. It now looks like a three-team race, whereas before the battle seemed to be simply for second. Wake Forest's win in front of 23,000 rowdies at BYU was as good of a road nonconference win as any college basketball team has had over the past five years. We think the Deacs are for real.
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http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/insider/columns/story?columnist=gottlieb_doug&id=3813290
For those of you that are not ESPN Insiders, here is the ACC section:
What we think
Despite the overall depth of the Big East, the ACC has the top conference RPI. In fact, it is easy to see why as UNC, Duke and Wake Forest are all top 5 teams. It now looks like a three-team race, whereas before the battle seemed to be simply for second. Wake Forest's win in front of 23,000 rowdies at BYU was as good of a road nonconference win as any college basketball team has had over the past five years. We think the Deacs are for real.
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http://insider.espn.go.com/ncb/insider/columns/story?columnist=gottlieb_doug&id=3813290