The Atlantic Coast Conference was founded in 1953 and remains a stalwart among college basketball conferences. With two of the biggest teams in the nation, the attention it gets on the national stage is always at a high.

Here's a look at how the ACC's 18 men's basketball programs stack up heading into Saturday's Duke-Clemson game:

No. 2 Duke on Saturday night by dismantling the Atlantic Coast Conference’s other traditional power in North Carolina, 85-65.

Teams with Lock status have at least a 95% chance to make the tournament, according to the BPI forecast. (Yes, this means that 5% of the time, a team marked as a lock will miss the tourney. We set the threshold there as a nod to the traditional standard for significance testing.)

The Clemson Tigers men’s basketball team has been rising to the occasion more often than not during the 2024-25 season. They did it again over their last two co