It’s ACC Tournament week, with games getting under way today in Washington, DC. The Tar Heels are regular-season champs (for the seventh time in Roy Williams’ 13 years as head coach!), so they’re the top seed this week; they’ll take on either Pitt or Syracuse in the quarterfinal on Thursday at noon. UNC is looking to end a seven-year drought: they’ve reached the title game four times in the last five years, but they haven’t actually won the ACC tourney since 2008.
(Worth noting, though: regardless of what the Heels do in Washington this week, they have a history of playing well in the NCAA tournament when winning the regular-season conference title. They’ve won or shared the ACC regular-season title six times in the Roy Williams era – and each of those six years, they’ve reached at least the Elite Eight in the NCAA tourney.)
Deborah Stroman is a sports commentator and a professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. She discussed the ACC tournament with Aaron Keck on WCHL Monday.
WCHL will have wire-to-wire coverage of the ACC tournament beginning with the quarterfinals on Thursday. Tune in Thursday morning at 10 am for a special hour-long edition of the UNC Health Care Countdown to Tipoff, followed by all four quarterfinal games. We’ll air Friday’s semifinals and Saturday’s final as well.
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