Another ACC Team Wins the Preseason NIT

Let's just call it the ACC Invitational.

Just kidding...but the ACC has again got off to a great start.  Yep, I'm gonna write something complimentary about Duke...as they won a thrilling NIT final.  This marks the SIXTH time in EIGHT years that an ACC school has won the preseason NIT Championship.

2005-Duke
2004-Wake Forest
2003-Georgia Tech
2002-North Carolina
2000-Duke
1998-North Carolina

In 1996, 1997 and 2001...an ACC team lost the Preseason NIT Championship game.  In 1996, Duke lost to Indiana.  In 1997, Florida State lost to Kansas.  In 2001, Wake Forest lost to Syracuse.

So, in the last 10 years, an ACC team has appeared in the Championship game 9 times....and won 6 of them. 

In 1999...the only year the ACC didn't have a team in the NIT title tilt....Maryland finished 3rd.

While down a bit this year....the ACC will still be a force to be reckoned with.