Somehow we have arrived at this strange confluence of bracketing and geography, Greensboro on the Missouri River. While zero ACC teams compete in Atlanta this weekend, right in the instep of the fabled footprint, three have somehow arrived in Omaha to compete for one spot in the Final Four, and will have to get past top-seeded Kansas, yet again just across the border from home, to do it.
Other than the presence of Syracuse in the semifinals, this feels like some far-flung ACC tournament in the future, when Creighton has added football and become the league's 22nd member and the ghost of Warren Buffett paid to play the thing in Nebraska.