The 'weak' ACC has three teams in the Elite Eight!

Root4GT

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I'd argue a conference that doesn't have a team expected to make the elite 8 shouldn't be getting 9 teams in. And I don't think being good enough to win one game in the tournament AAT teams. They went 3-4 means all that much. I think most high major teams are good enough to win one on any given day.

You can say they went by criteria and not conference, but when the Big 10 got 9 teams, and the ACC would have likely had 4 if VT doesn't win the ACCT that screams something is wrong with the process.

To me teams like Indiana and Michigan got in over a team like Wake, not because Indiana and Michigan did anything of note OOC but because other big ten teams did.
Michigan played 7 OOC games against NCAAT teams. They went 3-4. Lost to Arizona, Villanova, UNC and Seaton Hall. Beat Tenn, CSU and SDST. Much better schedule than Wake. And as Red said they were a last 4 in team.
 
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