Louisville Joins ACC

The University of Louisville will be joining the Atlantic Coast Conference, possibly in 2014. As seen in the map below, there has been a mass exodus of teams from the Big East to the ACC, in a recent wave (red dots) and an older one (purple dots).

As this ESPN.com article notes, Louisville will add to what is already an extremely strong basketball conference:

The Cardinals' basketball program can also match up with elite programs in the ACC. Since the 2004-05 school year, Louisville has reached two Final Fours and two Elite Eights.

Louisville is among four current and future ACC schools that have won 20 or more games in each of the past 10 seasons. Only nine schools in Division I have accomplished that, including Duke, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.