CHICAGO — The ACC has four teams in the Elite Eight, and Duke isn’t one of them.
For the sake of the conference, that’s not such a bad thing. While the debate as to whether Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski should apologize to Oregon’s Dillon Brooks, four other ACC teams will fight for two Final Four spots on Sunday.
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The North Carolina-Notre Dame and Virginia-Syracuse matchups validate the decision to add Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Syracuse in 2013 and Louisville (also not one of those teams) in 2014.