The ACC announced Tuesday that its 18-team men’s basketball conference is going back to playing an 18-game league schedule. The conference had played a 20-game league schedule since the 2019-20 season,

The conference is coming off a historically bad season by its standards and is looking to beef up its nonconference performance

The ACC’s answer is far more straightforward. Stop losing so many nonconference games. Recruit better, coach better, play better.