Years ACC Had Pair of No. 1 Seeds in NCAAs

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It’s NCAA tournament time!

Spend all the energy you want debating which teams deserved which seeds. Now that we’ve learned the ACC got two No. 1s in the field, if history is any guide we can go ahead and write in either North Carolina or Virginia reaching the Final Four.

This is only the fifth time since seeding began in 1979 that the ACC got a pair of number ones. On each of the four previous occasions in which the ACC had two ones, a league representative survived to reach the Final Four. In fact, on three of those four occasions one ACC top seeds won the national championship.

The ACC has now received an impressive 35 No. 1 seeds in 38 years of seeding. This is the fourth time North Carolina has been part of a top-seed pair and the second for Virginia.