national champion, 4 top 5 teams. so many nba players. seems like every team had a great backcourt and that is the biggest difference between then and todays acc. just insane.

unc-national champions
felton
mccants
williams
williams
may
-manual noel

wake forest
paul
gray
levy
danalues
williams
-downey, strickland, visser

duke
ewing
redick
nelson
randolph
williams
-melchioni, dockery

georgia tech
jack
bynum-u might not remember this little guy was sick
mouhammed
mchenry
schensher
-west,morrow, dickey

the best
bethel
atsur
hodge
evtimov
collins
-bennerman, grant, brackman, simmons

uva-better than the team that won the acc in 07.came near the bottom that year
singlertary
reynolds
smith-this guy was an archer u might not remember
-joseph bannister gary forbes
forbes is one of the best guards in the country right now at umass

miami-worst in conference. but 3 damn good guards would be decent today
good pg i forgot his name but he was solid
diaz
hite
-just an insane backcourt

vt-4 good players thats all though
dowdell
gordon
washington
collins

*bc would make the 5th top 10 acc team
hinnant
marshall
dudley
smith
williams
-rice

fsu-would easily be the 3rd best team in the acc if they came today or guys not left early
galloway
wafer
rich
thorton
johnson
-swann,mims

umd-jeeze look at the talent
gilchrist
mccray
strawberry
caner medley
ibekwe
gist

clemson sucked. ford was good

1/27/2008 8:24:40 PM

definitely a lot of talent on those teams.

1/27/2008 8:28:42 PM

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[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 8:33 PM. Reason : .]

1/27/2008 8:32:15 PM

2002 was a pretty awesome year for acc basketball, but I don't remember the bottom half of the conference being particularly strong.

1/27/2008 8:34:11 PM

Wow, that was really good.

1985 Big East was nasty, too. 3 Final Four teams including the National Champions.

Coaches: Rollie Massimino, John Thompson, Rick Pitino, Jim Boeheim, Louie Carnasecca.

1985 first and second round picks: Patrick Ewing, Chris Mullin, Ed Pinckney, Bill Wennington, Bill Martin, Dwayne McClain.

1986 first and second round picks: Dwayne Washington, Walter Berry, Harold Pressley, Rafael Addison, David Wingate, Michael Jackson.

1987 first and second round picks: Reggie Williams, Mark Jackson.

1988 first and second round picks: Charles Smith, Rony Seikaly, Mark Bryant, Jerome Lane, Shelton Jones.

*** Damn, we had a TON of NBA draft picks during the V era...

1/27/2008 8:37:55 PM

Well, just looking back at our 1983 National Championship team, they faced a lot of talented teams. UNC had Jordan, Perkins, Worthy, Brad Daugherty. Virginia had Sampson. Maryland had Bias. GT had Mark Price. Duke had Dawkins. I mean, those guys are ACC All-Time type players. I'm not sure if all of those players were playing that year but I'm pretty sure most of those were there that year. Even if one or two weren't there, that's still a pretty damn good conference.

1/27/2008 8:47:34 PM

Lets stamp this thread as fact and move on.

1/27/2008 8:50:04 PM

What the fuck was Von Wafer thinking?

1/27/2008 8:57:39 PM

Today's ACC is pretty kickass too though.

I'll take a good game over talent any day.

1/27/2008 9:13:21 PM

the games were much better back then. they were well played and high scoring/exciting.

1/27/2008 9:15:37 PM

is it really that hard to type you instead of u?

fucking annoying

1/27/2008 9:17:03 PM

is it really that hard to read u as "you". It is three times shorter to type...

1/27/2008 9:27:57 PM

you have a full keyboard in front of you

1/27/2008 9:28:18 PM

^^^^I meant to add that I was very heavy pot smoker three years ago.

The games could have been very good, and I wouldn't remember it.

This year's games have so far been fucking awesome.

[Edited on January 27, 2008 at 9:29 PM. Reason : My bad.]

1/27/2008 9:28:25 PM

Quote :

"good pg i forgot his name but he was solid"

Anthony Harris. LETHAALLL WEAPPOON 3 MAN!!!!!

Also Ty Rice was not on that BC team.

1/27/2008 11:34:02 PM

Quote :

"is it really that hard to read u as "you"."

yes

1/27/2008 11:36:36 PM

great thread. best ever in the last 20 yea? definitely. every single acc matchup in february had potential to be a great fucking game.

1/28/2008 12:24:59 AM

^^^and guillermo diaz. That kid was nasty as well

1/28/2008 12:42:50 AM

Take it back. Fuck it.

[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 1:31 AM. Reason : ...]

1/28/2008 1:30:27 AM

i think a 5 year old may have made this thread

[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 2:01 AM. Reason : a]

1/28/2008 2:00:38 AM

which means they were 1 when it all happened

1/28/2008 2:05:29 AM

yep

1/28/2008 2:08:20 AM

yep

1/28/2008 4:28:28 AM

that was a really good year for the acc. i don't know about best ever, but the talent up there as a whole far surpasses the talent in the acc this year for sure.

1/28/2008 8:20:42 AM

how is 2005 gonna be the best ever when we didnt even beat duke/UNC. or even come close.

you people

1/28/2008 8:36:07 AM

i hope you're not serious

1/28/2008 8:45:41 AM

83 would get my vote.

wouldnt use the nba as a gauge. there were less teams/players years ago

there were also less division 1 teams in bb

acc backups during the 60's-80's would start at other programs.

1/28/2008 8:58:45 AM