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by BirdGT on Apr 6, 2010 11:01 AM EDT

Duke won it all. The ACC won its twelfth national championship overall. This is the eighth ACC title since expansion to 64 teams (1985). No other conference is close to this total. Here's the final tournament record of all the conferences this season:

The ACC and Big 10 tied for overall winning percentage. I think the ACC deserves a little more credit as we were seeded like a bunch of college hoops vagabonds. The ACC averaged the second worst seeding of all the power conferences in this tournament with an average seeding of 6.67. Six other conferences were seeded, on average, higher than us: the Big East (3.75), Horizon League (5.00), Big 12 (5.17), Big 10 (5.20), Atlantic 10 (5.67), and SEC (5.25). This bugs me because the ACC had to play so many freakin' power conference teams in the early rounds. The ACC had to play 10 inter-power conference games (winning 6 of them). The Big 12, Big East, and Big 10 only had to play 6. The SEC and Pac 10 only played 4. Hopefully, the selection committee will give us more credit next year especially considering we've produced the past two freakin' national champions. Here's the histograph of Duke's rise to ultimate glory:

What did you think about the Title game last night and the overall tournament?

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great game last night.

Closest title game since 1981.

FromTheRumbleSeat: Where Georgia Tech and statistics go hand-in-hand.

by Winfield Featherston on Apr 6, 2010 11:51 AM EDT reply actions

suspenseful game

But I wouldn’t slap the “great” tag on it. Sloppily played with a very low talent level as compared to the rest of the title games this decade. The game was close which made it seem “great” but in the end there weren’t really any “moments” that will be solidified a la Hakeem Warrick’s block, Chalmer’s three ball etc that I associated with the greatest title games of this past decade.

The most memorable image from that game last night is Heywood’s shot going glass and rimming out.

Yeah BoYeeEEeeE

by InTheBleachers on Apr 6, 2010 4:50 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs

I will forever remember...

the game changing flop that Scheyer pulled on Gordon Hayward.

If the Ramblin' Reck burns the nationwide average of 1.61 gallons/day, it produces 14 kg of CO2 equivalent per day. 14 kg/day is less greenhouse gas emissions than those produced by a single cow or horse. There is a proverbial herd of mascots in I-A football that are more polluting than the Ramblin' Reck...

by BirdGT on Apr 6, 2010 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions