Then came Dean Smith and David Thompson and Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Valvano and, by the 1980s and 90s, no other conference came all that close to the ACC’s sustained legacy of basketball excellence.

A new film, The Game That Changed College Basketball, focuses on the 1974 ACC men’s tournament final between Maryland ...

Thompson said he had advised Florida State officials that with the Big Ten and SEC locked into deals, trying to sue their way out of the ACC to make a conference upgrade in the next few years was ...