Long A Gushing Pipeline For Pro Hoops, Watered-down Acc Has Less To Offer Premium Content

John Delong

The last time the ACC didn’t have a player selected in the first round of the NBA draft was all the way back in 1988, when Danny Manning of Kansas was the top pick. The first ACC player taken that year was N.C. State guard Vinny Del Negro, with the fourth selection of the second round.

Only twice since then has the league produced just one first-round pick – in 2000, when Georgia Tech…


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