Football may have been the driving force behind conference realignment, but expansion has its perks for basketball too. The ACC has four teams in the Elite Eight this year, and as a result of the league's overall success in the NCAA tournament, it is set to earn almost $40 million.
Each game (or "unit") played by a team has a dollar value, and the ACC is going to finish with a record 25 units in this tourney, as ESPN's Darren Rovell explains here. The league earned almost $33 million from the 2015 NCAAs. That's a significant amount of cash, though tournament earnings are paid over a six-year window.