Tudor's take: ACC in the title game

INDIANAPOLIS -- ACC teams have played for 21 NCAA basketball championship games entering tonight’s Duke vs. Butler game in Lucas Oil Stadium.

The league’s record is 11-10 in those games, an impressive record taking into account that two of the losses were against UCLA during its dynasty era.Duke is 3-6 in title games, but 3-4 under Mike Krzyzewski.

Percentage wise, N.C. State has the league lead, 2-for-2, with wins over Marquette (1974) and Houston (1983). UNC is 5-3.

The only other conference team to win a title was Maryland in 2002. Florida State fell to UCLA in the 1972 title game, but the Seminoles weren’t an ACC member at the time.

UNC lost to Oklahoma State in 1946, a few years before the ACC was formed.Here’s the rundown:

THE 11 WINS
2009 _ UNC over Michigan State
2005 _ UNC over Illinois
2002 _ Maryland over Indiana
2001 _ Duke over Arizona
1993 _ UNC over Michigan
1992 _ Duke over Michigan
1991 _ Duke over Kansas
1983 _ NCSU over Houston
1982 _ UNC over Georgetown
1974 _ NCSU over Marquette
1957 _ UNC over Kansas

THE 10 LOSSES
2004 _ Georgia Tech to Connecticut
1999 _ Duke to Connecticut
1994 _ Duke to Arkansas
1990 _ Duke to UNLV
1986 _ Duke Louisville
1981 _ UNC to Indiana
1978 _ Duke to Kentucky
1977 _ UNC to Marquette
1968 _ UNC to UCLA
1964 _ Duke to UCLA

Caulton Tudor