The ACC needs to add UConn
Don't overthink this. A conference with a rich basketball history could bolster its hoops product and offer a lifeline to the Huskies' independent football program.
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — With Duke dispatching JMU at Barclays Center earlier in the evening, Jim Phillips just happened to be in the house when UConn turned this borough into “Storrs South,” with the Huskies routing Northwestern in the nightcap and punching their ticket to the Sweet 16.
Northwestern is Phillips’ former school. But at this point there is no good reason why the ACC commissioner shouldn’t be looking at a future with the Wildcats’ opponent from Sunday.
The ACC should add UConn, and it should add the Huskies now.
It simply makes too much sense.
Heck, it makes more sense than the three incoming schools that the ACC recently added: Cal, Stanford and SMU.
UConn is the betting favorite to become men’s college basketball’s first repeat national champion in 17 years. Its women’s basketball program is even more legendary.
Together, those two Huskies programs have combined for 15 national titles (and counting) since 1999.
No other school has combined to win more than four hoops titles during that stretch.