If you look at the 2016 NCAA tournament as a delicious feast of college basketball, then the conference tournaments that kick off the madness that is March make for some pretty satisfying appetizers.
Few, if any, of the myriad conference tournaments are more tantalizing than the upcoming ACC slugfest, which takes place over the course of five days at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C.
Virginia, North Carolina and Miami are all top-10 teams and have secured byes straight into the quarterfinals. No. 17 Duke is in the rare position of dark-horse contender. The Blue Devils are up the fourth and final double-bye seed, hoping to beat out Notre Dame.