Editor’s Note: This is the fifth story of our five-part series highlighting an anonymous poll with ACC men's basketball players at the recent ACC Tipoff in Charlotte ahead of the 2025-26 season. The Fayetteville Observer/USA TODAY Network broke down the best players, underrated players, top coaches, arenas and NCAA Tournament expansion.

NCAA Tournament expansion is among the hot topics in college basketball , with reports that March Madness could soon move from a 68-team event to 72 or 76 in 2027.

Wake Forest coach Steve Forbes, a member of the men's basketball oversight committee, discussed that topic in Charlotte during ACC Tipoff, the conference's annual preseason media days.

"I'm for it, and it's not because what you all probably think. People are going to say, 'Oh, Wake Forest is f

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