ACC Basketball Power Rankings: Week 4

The ACC continues to reign supreme amongst all other conferences. With so much talent, how does that affect this week’s power rankings?

In case you haven’t heard, the ACC is loaded.

I think I have said this once or twice before, but I will say it again, it is absolutely loaded.

In both the recent AP and Coaches poll, there are six ACC teams in the top 25. The next closest is the Big East with four.

In Joe Lundardi’s latest Bracketology, The ACC has ten teams in the field, the next closest is the Big Ten with eight. Five of those teams are four seeds or higher. No other conference has more than three such seeds.

Additionally the ACC has ten teams ranked in the top 50 of RPI and 11 ranked in the top 50 of BPI. Again in other words, this conference is loaded.

Speaking of those two rankings, this week’s rankings will have a BPRI ranking included which is the average of the two. It will also mentions a teams strength of record (SOR) which shows how the current teams record is compared to an average team playing that same schedule.

Of course, those are just metrics. When push comes to shove wins and losses still count for something and who you beat still has meaning.

With all that in mind, let’s delve into this week’s rankings where for the fourth consecutive week, we have a new team gracing the bottom.

Note: all records and stats are as of 1/22/2017