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High NCAA Seeds Are An ACC Tradition

Bubbles. Blather. Betting. Bitching.

It’s NCAA tournament time!

Spend all the energy you want debating which teams deserved which seeds, or no seeds at all. Now that we’ve learned the ACC got three No. 1s in the ’19 field -- only the second time any league did that, after the Big East in 2009 -- if history is any guide we can go ahead and write in Duke, UNC or UVa reaching the Final Four.

This is the sixth time since seeding began in 1979 that the ACC earned multiple number ones. On each of the five previous occasions in which the ACC had at last two No.