Word: acc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...busloads arrive, spending an average of $200 to $300 a person in as little as 90 minutes. Tours are met by trilingual greeters who hand out shopping bags. The mall provides a foreign-currency exchange counter for anyone who needs more money fast. Says Jay Santos, vice president of ACC Tours, which shepherds 100,000 international visitors a year: "We have to rent U-Haul trucks to carry the purchases behind the buses, and we always rent one or two extra hotel rooms per busload of visitors just for the packages...
Flip on CBS tonight, and there will be Jim Nantz or Billy Packer or some other slightly-balding announcer talking about how some ACC team is beating an unknown school like...
There I was in the Crimson Sports Grille, surrounded by televisions on all sides. We had the ACC college basketball tournament on ESPN, the Big East tournament on TV-38, and the Big Eight tourney on NESN...
...East, however, has not managed to disguise the truth of the situation. A Big East team hasn't won the NCAA's since the year Villanova upset Georgetown in the finals. Since then, it's been all ACC and Big Ten. There can be no denying the profusion of young basketball talent thriving in the small and large towns of the Midwest and the South. And yet, Carnessecca still gets voted into the Hall of Fame and a severely mediocre Villanova squad plays on national television several times throughout the season...
While the men's team had failed to qualify for the ACC's, the women's team missed out on a hard-earned and momentous trip to the championships...