The ACC tournament is traditionally where the best teams in the conference improve their respective resumes in pursuit of the highest-possible seed in the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
The 2018 edition at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, should feature much of the same, as Virginia, Duke and North Carolina jockey for position on Selection Sunday.
Further down the pecking order in the ACC, a few teams have the opportunity to better their chances of making the Big Dance by knocking off one of the ranked powers.
The five-day competition starts Tuesday with a trio of first-round games, but the real excitement in doesn't begin until Wednesday, when the bubble teams take the court for the first time.