CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Inside a small second-floor board room of a Hilton hotel on Monday, Jim Phillips escapes, at least temporarily, from the bustle of the opening day of his league’s media days.
Seated at the head of the table, Phillips, the ACC commissioner, gestures toward the four loose pages before him that bear out his conference’s superlatives.
Seven different ACC schools, for instance, won team NCAA championships this year to go with the 16 won the previous two years. The three-year total of 23 titles leads all conferences. The ACC, too, leads all power conferences in several rankings, including the U.