None of the Iron Five had more to prove in the postseason than Armando Bacot. The Carolina center came into the postseason fresh off the most disrespectful ACC Player of the Year vote in recent memory, where Wake Forest’s Alondes Williams somehow garnered ten more votes than Bacot, who averaged a double-double (17.4 ppg & 14.1 rpg) during ACC play. Going berserk in the NCAA Tournament while Alondes Williams toiled for three games in the NIT would be a good start on getting ACC voters to see the error of their ways, right?
Bacot performed two distinct and distinguished feats.