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If success is best measured in terms of wins and losses, then the ACC is unrivaled in NCAA basketball annals. Teams currently competing in the ACC have won eight of the past 17 NCAA basketball championships. No conference has compiled a better NCAA Tournament record than the ACC. Since the inaugural tournament in 1939, league teams have posted an NCAA Tournament-best mark of 423-218 for a sterling .660 winning percentage against the nation’s toughest competition. The 15 teams currently in the ACC have combined for 612 NCAA Tournament victories—181 more than the next nearest conference. Since 1985, the ACC has produced 28 Final Four teams, five more than any other conference. The ACC has seen at least one team make the Final Four in 22 of the past 29 years. Since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, ACC teams have compiled a 320-165 (.660) record, including 86 Sweet 16 appearances and 47 Regional Final berths—all NCAA Tournament bests. Since 1985, nearly half of the league teams (86 of 175) receiving NCAA berths have won at least two NCAA Tournament games. Teams currently in the ACC have combined to win 17 NCAA Championships. The ACC has posted 10 or more NCAA Tournament wins 16 times overall, and with its 11-8 mark in the 2017 NCAA Tournament, the ACC extended its non- losing streak in NCAA Tournament play to 30 years in a row. The Big Ten is second with a streak of 11 straight non-losing seasons, while the SEC is third at eight. In 2016, ACC teams combined to win an NCAA-record 19 NCAA Tournament games, eclipsing the previous mark of 18 set by the BIG EAST in 1985. Over the past three years, ACC teams have combined to win an NCAA-record 47 Tournament games, bettering the previous mark of 42 set by the ACC from 2014- 16. The ACC’s 47 wins are 19 more than any other conference. The ACC set an NCAA Tournament record in 2016 by having six teams reach the Sweet 16, breaking the previous record of five set by the league in 2015 and the BIG EAST in 2009. Over the past three years, 12 ACC teams have reached the Sweet 16, four more than any other conference over that span. Since 1981, the ACC has produced 45 consensus All-Americans—17 more than any other conference—and has accounted for 24 percent of the nation’s consensus All-Americans (45 of 189). Seven of the past 21 and nine of the past 25 consensus National Players of the Year have been from the ACC. Since 1975, 16 consensus National Players of the Year called the ACC home—nine more than any other conference. In addition, nine of the ACC’s 16 National Players of the Year have been unanimous selections. T H E A T L A N T I C C O A S T C O N F E R E N C E @VT_MBBall @vthokiembb VTMBBALL 14