The ACC added an eighth member, shambolic Georgia Tech, in 1979-80. That same year the made-for-basketball Big East Conference was formed. Two of the seven original members of the Big East, Boston College and Syracuse, are now ACC members, along with four others who joined along the way.
In all that time, across the intervening 40 years, the ACC had only six players foul out of at least 10 games each. Only one has done it since 2001 – Syracuse big man Bourama Sidibe, who notched 10 disqualifications in 32 games in 2020.
Sidibe, a 6-10 player from Mali, committed a foul every 5.