Editor’s Note: This is a relatively lengthy and obscure rant that some (okay many) people may not care about, enjoy with caution!
Let me start this article off by saying that I understand that it is difficult to do a conference tournament right in a sport like baseball. The ACC has 14 member schools that play baseball (Syracuse has no team) and ideally the conference would like to have as many teams as possible attend the neutral-site event. In 2016, the conference took 10 of the 14 teams, had the 7th through 10th seeds play a play-in game to qualify for pool play.