Editing Atlantic Coast Conference (section)

===History===
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The early roots of ACC basketball began primarily thanks to two men: [[Everett Case]] and [[Frank McGuire]].
Case accepted the head coaching job at North Carolina State. Case's North Carolina State teams dominated the early years of the ACC with a modern, fast-paced style of play. He became the fastest college basketball coach to reach many "games won" milestones.
Case became known as ''The Father of ACC Basketball.'' Despite his success on the court, he may have been even a better promoter off-the-court. Case realized the need to sell his program and university. State started construction on [[Reynolds Coliseum]] in 1941. Case persuaded school officials to expand the arena to 12,400 people. It opened as the new home court for his team in 1949; at the time, it was the largest on-campus arena in the South. As such, it was used as the host site for many Southern Conference tournaments, ACC tournaments, and the ''[[Dixie Classic (basketball tournament)|Dixie Classic]]''. The Dixie Classic brought in large revenues for all schools involved and soon became one of the premier sporting events in the [[Southern United States|South]].

Partly to counter Case's success, North Carolina convinced Frank McGuire to come to Chapel Hill in 1952. McGuire knew that, largely due to Case's influence, basketball was now the major high school athletic event of the region. He not only tapped the growing market of high school talent in North Carolina, but also brought several recruits from his home territory in New York City as well. Case and McGuire literally ''invented'' a rivalry. Both men realized the benefits created through a rivalry between them. It brought more national attention to both of their programs and increased fan support on both sides.

After State was slapped with crippling NCAA sanctions before the 1956–57 season, McGuire's North Carolina team delivered the ACC its first national championship. During the Tar Heels' championship run, Greensboro entrepreneur Castleman D. Chesley noticed the popularity that it generated. He cobbled together a five-station television network to broadcast the Final Four. That network began broadcasting regular season ACC games the following season—the ancestor of the television package from [[Raycom Sports]]. From that point on, ACC basketball gained large popularity.

The ACC has been the home of many prominent basketball coaches besides Case and McGuire, including [[Terry Holland]] and [[Tony Bennett (basketball)|Tony Bennett]] of Virginia; [[Vic Bubas]] and [[Mike Krzyzewski]] of Duke; [[Press Maravich]], [[Norm Sloan]] and [[Jim Valvano]] of North Carolina State; [[Dean Smith]] and [[Roy Williams (coach)|Roy Williams]] of North Carolina; [[Bones McKinney]] and [[Dave Odom]] of Wake Forest; [[Lefty Driesell]] and [[Gary Williams]] of Maryland; [[Bobby Cremins]] of Georgia Tech; [[Jim Boeheim]] of Syracuse; [[Jim Larrañaga]] of Miami; and [[Rick Pitino]] of Louisville.