Following a very rough first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, the ACC was taking heat from all sides. ESPN, FOX and NBC started the troll deluge, and even SB Nation (and others) were happy to carry the narrative too -- though at least Mike Rutherford had far more substance in his reasoning (and his opinion comes from actually caring about the conference’s success).
Just a year after putting a record number of teams (six) through to the Sweet 16, the conference had just one make it in 2017: last year’s runner-up North Carolina.