We’re quickly approaching the end of college basketball’s regular season which means conference tournaments and the NCAA Tournament are just around the corner.
In what has been an epic turnaround for Notre Dame under Mike Brey, the Fighting Irish are within shouting distance of winning an ACC regular season title. Now that would likely requiring winning their final three contests of the regular season (vs. Georgia Tech, at Florida State, vs. Pitt) and would mean Duke has to lose one of their remaining three as well, all of which the Blue Devils will likely be heavy favorites in (at Syracuse, at Pitt, vs. North Carolina).
It would require work and a little help for the Irish to pull it off but hey, stranger things have happened.
As for where Notre Dame sits in the conference standings, the two-seed certainly wouldn’t be all that bad. Entering the weekend the ACC Tournament would look as follows:
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Getting on the other side of the bracket than Duke, North Carolina and Wake Forest and only having to to play one of Miami or Virginia would be about as good as Notre Dame could possibly ask for. It certainly wouldn’t be a free path to the final but it would be as good of situation as Notre Dame could hope for.
The ACC schedule this weekend is as follows:
North Carolina at North Carolina State – 2 p.m. ET
Virginia Tech at Miami – 3 p.m. ET
Clemson at Boston College – 3 p.m. ET
Florida State at Virginia – 4 p.m. ET
Georgia Tech at Notre Dame – 5 p.m. ET
Duke at Syracuse – 6 p.m. ET
Louisville at Wake Forest – 7 p.m. ET