For the most part we no longer view the ACC’s most recent expansion additions as foreign elements. They’re just Louisville, Notre Dame, Pitt and Syracuse, comprising 26.7 percent of the league’s membership.
And, lo and behold, in the five years since those four schools infested, we mean invested, the ACC they’ve produced an appropriate 26 percent of the players chosen first and second team all-conference. (Louisville arrived in 2015.)
On average the four schools had one player per year on the first team, although both last season and in 2016 they were shut out.
Syracuse leads the way with five of 50 top-10 selections to All-ACC squads as voted by the region’s sports media.