David Jensen/Icon Sportswire Baylor has won 12 consecutive regular-season Big 12 titles. Iowa State's Ashley Joens is back for a super-senior season after being named the nation's top small forward the past two years. Below, each of us focused on a different team we considered the best in the league, and that's without delving into other strong teams such as North Carolina, Virginia Tech and Miami - not to mention Florida State, Georgia Tech and maybe Duke. Yes, the SEC is home to South Carolina, but the ACC will prove to be way deeper by the time all is said and done. And can NC State, North Carolina and Duke all make the NCAA field in the same season for the first time since 2014? NC State has been the most successful of the longtime ACC teams to push back.Īll three are in the mix again, along with another ACC stalwart, North Carolina, and Virginia Tech, which joined the conference in 2004.
Notre Dame and Louisville took over the league in women's basketball when they moved into the ACC in 20, respectively. What is great for the ACC is that there are so many intriguing matchups to watch. Voepel: The title "best," as Charlie said, still tilts toward the SEC, especially considering how strong South Carolina's chances are to repeat.
From Georgia's Battles to LSU's Reese: Ranking the top transfers in women's college basketball. The ACC might have the most compelling conference race, but the SEC is the better league right now. 1 seeds (South Carolina and Tennessee) as well as the defending national champion gives it the edge. While the ACC has more teams among the top four seeds (five) than the SEC in our preseason bracket projection, the SEC's average seed was 5.8 compared to the ACC's 6.4. They are undeniably the two best conferences in the country, but the nod for absolute best goes to the SEC. Which is the best conference in the country: the ACC or SEC?Ĭreme: Each league put nine teams in my preseason Bracketology. Navigate to predicted champions for every conference. Voepel break down what to expect across the Power 5 races and predict the winner in all 32 conferences. That begs the question: Which is the most competitive conference in the nation?ĮSPN's Charlie Creme, Alexa Philippou and M.A. Just how good will Tennessee and the top half of the SEC be? And in the ACC, will Louisville, NC State or Notre Dame capture the crown? Will Baylor be able to add to its streak of 12 consecutive regular-season titles in the Big 12 or are Texas or Iowa State ready to return to the mantle? Can anyone challenge Stanford in the Pac-12? Is Iowa ready to win the Big Ten regular-season title outright? But what will conference races look like in every other league around the country? And the Gamecocks are again the front-runner in the SEC. Defending champion South Carolina is the easy pick for preseason No.
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