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<blockquote data-quote="FredJacket" data-source="post: 947269" data-attributes="member: 2843"><p>You are correct on why the conference moved to pool play and away from a double elimination format. </p><p></p><p>The conference has tweaked the pool play format over the years by continuing to add more teams to the tournament. They started with 8 teams (2 pools), then went to 10 teams (still 2 pools but included play-in games to whittle to 8 teams). But in 2016, UNC failed to make the 10 team field with an RPI in the teens AND failed to make the NCAA tournament too. </p><p></p><p>As we all know, if UNC gets a single "bad deal" ... the ACC reacts and reacts swiftly. So... as of 2017, they have gone to the current format with 12 teams and 4 pools. The detractors of this format have a legitimate complaint regarding the fan experience because there is a certainty that 4 games in the tournament (1 per pool) will be played while knowing ahead of time they have no bearing on the outcome of the tournament (i.e. who wins that particular pool). The ACC doesn't care as much about that as getting each of the 12 teams 2 additional conference games to improve resumes while balancing the fact you do want teams to know/plan for a finite number of games.</p><p></p><p>Ga Tech is a team who may benefit from this next week. We shall see.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FredJacket, post: 947269, member: 2843"] You are correct on why the conference moved to pool play and away from a double elimination format. The conference has tweaked the pool play format over the years by continuing to add more teams to the tournament. They started with 8 teams (2 pools), then went to 10 teams (still 2 pools but included play-in games to whittle to 8 teams). But in 2016, UNC failed to make the 10 team field with an RPI in the teens AND failed to make the NCAA tournament too. As we all know, if UNC gets a single "bad deal" ... the ACC reacts and reacts swiftly. So... as of 2017, they have gone to the current format with 12 teams and 4 pools. The detractors of this format have a legitimate complaint regarding the fan experience because there is a certainty that 4 games in the tournament (1 per pool) will be played while knowing ahead of time they have no bearing on the outcome of the tournament (i.e. who wins that particular pool). The ACC doesn't care as much about that as getting each of the 12 teams 2 additional conference games to improve resumes while balancing the fact you do want teams to know/plan for a finite number of games. Ga Tech is a team who may benefit from this next week. We shall see. [/QUOTE]
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