The ACC Men's Basketball Tournament (popularly known as the ACC Tournament) is the conference championship tournament in basketball for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The tournament has been held every year since 1954, one year after the conference's creation. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA men's basketball tournament.
Unlike most college basketball tournaments, the ACC Tournament acts as the only championship for the ACC, rather than an addition to the regular season title. The ACC elected to eliminate the regular season title following the 1961 season and declare the tournament champion the sole champion of the conference from then on.
Tournament Champions [edit]
Since July 1, 1961, the ACC's bylaws have included the phrase "and the winner shall be the conference champion" in referring to the tournament.[1] Accordingly, the teams listed below are the ACC men's basketball champions for the years indicated, and it is not technically correct to refer to them as the "tournament champions" insofar as that usage implies that there is some other championship. While it has become popular for the media (and fans of teams that finish first in the regular season but fail to win the tournament) to use the term "regular-season champions," such usage is not borne out by league rules.
† The current venue known as "Bojangles' Coliseum" was originally known as "Charlotte Coliseum." A new arena that opened in 1988 assumed the name Charlotte Coliseum at that time.
Venues [edit]
| Venue |
City |
State |
Appearances |
Last |
Years |
Notes |
| Greensboro Coliseum |
Greensboro |
North Carolina |
24 |
2013 |
1967, 1971–75, 1977–80, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1995–98, 2003–04, 2006, 2010–11, 2013, 2014–15 |
(a) |
| Reynolds Coliseum |
Raleigh |
North Carolina |
13 |
1966 |
1954-66 |
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| Charlotte Coliseum (2) |
Charlotte |
North Carolina |
8 |
2002 |
1990–94, 1999–2000, 2002 |
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| Charlotte Coliseum (1) |
Charlotte |
North Carolina |
3 |
1970 |
1968, 1969, 1970 |
(b) |
| Capital Centre |
Landover |
Maryland |
3 |
1987 |
1976, 1981, 1987 |
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| Omni Coliseum |
Atlanta |
Georgia |
3 |
1989 |
1983, 1985, 1989 |
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| Georgia Dome |
Atlanta |
Georgia |
2 |
2009 |
2001, 2009 |
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| MCI Center |
Washington |
D.C. |
1 |
2005 |
2005 |
(c) |
| St. Pete Times Forum |
Tampa |
Florida |
1 |
2007 |
2007 |
(d) |
| Charlotte Bobcats Arena |
Charlotte |
North Carolina |
1 |
2008 |
2008 |
(e) |
| Philips Arena |
Atlanta |
Georgia |
1 |
2012 |
2012 |
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(a): The Greensboro Coliseum is scheduled to hold the tournament from 2014 through 2015. Since these are future dates, they have not been included in the total.
(b): The first "Charlotte Coliseum" (as it was known from 1955 to 1988) has been known as the Bojangles' Coliseum since 2008.
(c): The MCI Center in Washington, D.C., is now known as the Verizon Center.
(d): The St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, FL, is now known as the Tampa Bay Times Forum.
(e): The Charlotte Bobcats Arena in Charlotte, NC, is now known as the Time Warner Cable Arena.
Tournament championships by school [edit]
| School (year joined)[2] |
Winners |
Years |
| Duke (1953) |
19 |
1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1980, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011 |
| North Carolina (1953) |
17 |
1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008 |
| NC State (1953) |
10 |
1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1973[a], 1974, 1983, 1987 |
| Wake Forest (1953) |
4 |
1961, 1962, 1995, 1996 |
| Maryland (1953) |
3 |
1958, 1984, 2004 |
| Georgia Tech (1978) |
3 |
1985, 1990, 1993 |
| Florida State (1991) |
1 |
2012 |
| Miami (2004) |
1 |
2013 |
| Virginia (1953) |
1 |
1976 |
| South Carolina (1953)[b] |
1 |
1971 |
| Clemson (1953) |
0 |
— |
| Virginia Tech (2004) |
0 |
— |
| Boston College (2005) |
0 |
— |
| Syracuse University (2013) |
0 |
— |
| University of Pittsburgh (2013) |
0 |
— |
| University of Notre Dame (2013) |
0 |
— |
- a The 1972–73 NC State Wolfpack team was forced to skip postseason play due to an NCAA recruiting infraction.[3] Assistant coach Eddie Biedenbach had played in a pick-up (impromptu) basketball game with David Thompson on a recruiting visit to Raleigh, North Carolina.[3] The Wolfpack finished the season undefeated at 27–0 but forfeited the opportunity to compete for the national championship.[3]
- b The University of South Carolina left the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1971, and it is now a member of the Southeastern Conference.[2][4]
- c Since the tournament began, through the 2011 tournament, the lowest seeded team to win the championship is the sixth seed. This has happened five times: Virginia in 1976, Duke in 1980, NC State in 1987, Georgia Tech in 1993, and Maryland in 2004. Before 2005, when the league had 8 or 9 members, the lowest seeded team to reach the finals was the NC State team in 1997 which was the 8th seed. Following the expansion to 12 teams for the 2005 tournament, the lowest seeded team to reach the finals was the 2007 NC State squad as a 10th seed.
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