ACC was the best conference in depth, but there were not a lot of top 5 or even top 10 teams. Only UNC was top 5. Even Duke never really got it together this year (except for the ACC tournament). I think one of the problems is that no one in the ACC had a good pressure defense that many of the teams in the tournament (WVA, Arkansas for example) have used with success. Also, the match ups and seeds were not good for the ACC teams. Duke played USC in SC, VT played Wisconsin (a much bigger team and much better team than an 8 seed), Louisville played a very hot Michigan team and FSU was over seeded and just wasn't the same team at the end of the season than at the start of the season. UVA and ND although ranked were not very dominate teams and lost bad to equal seeds (but better teams). Also, most ACC teams did not have a dominate individual player. A must to win the NCAA. Nothing wrong with the conference, just one of those years in the NCAA.
The tournament has not been that exciting this year. So far no OT or buzzer beater games. No real excitement or major upsets (Wisconsin over Nova was not a major upset).