How will Va. Tech and Miami affect ACC women's basketball?

While both the Big East and the ACC are good, they may have had a
easier time with the cellar dwellers in the Big East than those they
will encounter in the ACC. IMHO.
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>In the long run it will hurt the Big East unless they pull in some new
>schools.

But I was asking about the ACC.

V


"There is no such thing as accident. It is Fate--misnamed."
--title card, Erich Von Stroheim's "The Wedding March," 1928
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It should do more for the ACC in women's basketball than it will in men's. Va
Tech gives them another perennial tournament team to go with Duke, UNC,
Clemson, and Virginia, which is something they really could've used. Tech will
be in the league's top three or four right from the get-go. Miami I expect to
fall in at about the same level as Georgia Tech, towards the bottom of the
league but not quite at Wake Forest low. Miami (like GT) has never
demonstrated much of a commitment to women's basketball, but Wake has shown
none at all--their budget for a major conference program is an absolute joke.
Miami was able to make the NCAAs every so often from the Big East because half
the conference (St. John's, Providence, Syracuse, etc.) was made up of
zero-support Wake Forests that they could feast on. So as long as they beat
those teams, all they had to do to get in the show was win enough
non-conference games and maybe pull an upset over a BC or Rutgers. There's
only one Wake Forest in the ACC though, so Miami's going to be finding those
nearly-automatic conference wins much harder to come by. Telling stat: last
year's Miami team made the NCAAs with an 18-12 record. They were 5-8 against
top 100 RPI teams, 13-4 against sub-100 teams. And there were only two teams
in last year's ACC (Maryland and Wake) who finished with sub-100 RPIs, compared
to six sub-100 teams in the Big East. If the Hurricanes are going to keep
making NCAA appearances out of the ACC, the school will really have to bump up
its support for the program.
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Didn't Miami have a fenom frosh who might help raise the school's level,
and recruiting, esp. now that it is part of the ACC, with higher
competition across the conference?

Nancy

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> >In the long run it will hurt the Big East unless they pull in some new
> >schools.
>
> But I was asking about the ACC.
>
> V
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> "There is no such thing as accident. It is Fate--misnamed."
> --title card, Erich Von Stroheim's "The Wedding March," 1928
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