If the ACC has its way, the Clemson men’s basketball team will make the NCAA Tournament this year, and so will everybody else.
In a surprise twist, coaches in the ACC voted unanimously Wednesday for every Division I team in college basketball to be allowed to participate in the NCAA Tournament this coming season. This will only be for the 2021 NCAA Tournament.
Official statements on the proposal are expected to be released later on Wednesday, according to CBS basketball writer Jon Rothstein, who first reported the news.
After the NCAA canceled last year’s basketball tournament, its biggest moneymaker, the ACC views this as a way to celebrate college basketball at its finest, while also awarding programs who last year may have earned a bid to the tournament, but never got their chance to play in it because of the COVID-19 pandemic.