ACC Men's Basketball Tournament

ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
Conference Basketball Championship
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Sport	Basketball
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Number of teams	12
Format	Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium	Greensboro Coliseum
Current location	Greensboro, NC
Played	1954-present
Last contest	2011 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
Current champion	Duke Blue Devils
Most championships	Duke Blue Devils (19)
TV partner(s)	ESPN, Raycom Sports
Official website	TheACC.com Men's Basketball

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.

Contents 1 By year 2 Venues 3 Tournament championships by school 4 Footnotes 5 References 6 Sources

By year

Year	Champion	Score	Runner-up	Venue	Tournament MVP
1954	NC State	82–80*	Wake Forest	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Dickie Hemric
1955	NC State	87–77	Duke	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Ron Shavlik
1956	NC State	76–54	Wake Forest	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Vic Molodet
1957	North Carolina	95–75	South Carolina	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Lennie Rosenbluth
1958	Maryland	86–75	North Carolina	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Nick Davis
1959	NC State	80–56	North Carolina	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Lou Pucillo
1960	Duke	64–59	Wake Forest	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Doug Kistler
1961	Wake Forest	96–81	Duke	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Len Chappell
1962	Wake Forest	77–68	Clemson	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Len Chappell
1963	Duke	71–66	Wake Forest	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Art Heyman
1964	Duke	80–59	Wake Forest	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Jeff Mullins
1965	NC State	91–85	Duke	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Larry Worsley
1966	Duke	71–66	NC State	Reynolds Coliseum • Raleigh, NC	Steve Vacendak
1967	North Carolina	82–73	Duke	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Larry Miller
1968	North Carolina	87–50	NC State	Charlotte Coliseum^ • Charlotte, NC	Larry Miller
1969	North Carolina	85–74	Duke	Charlotte Coliseum^ • Charlotte, NC	Charlie Scott
1970	NC State	42–39**	South Carolina	Charlotte Coliseum^ • Charlotte, NC	Vann Williford
1971	South Carolina	52–51	North Carolina	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	John Roche
1972	North Carolina	73–64	Maryland	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Bob McAdoo
1973	NC State	76–74	Maryland	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Tommy Burleson
1974	NC State	103–100*	Maryland	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Tommy Burleson
1975	North Carolina	70–66	NC State	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Phil Ford
1976	Virginia	67–62	North Carolina	Capital Centre • Landover, MD	Wally Walker
1977	North Carolina	75–69	Virginia	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	John Kuester
1978	Duke	85–77	Wake Forest	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Jim Spanarkel
1979	North Carolina	71–63	Duke	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Dudley Bradley
1980	Duke	73–72	Maryland	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Albert King
1981	North Carolina	61–60	Maryland	Capital Centre • Landover, MD	Sam Perkins
1982	North Carolina	47–45	Virginia	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	James Worthy
1983	NC State	81–78	Virginia	The Omni • Atlanta, GA	Sidney Lowe
1984	Maryland	74–62	Duke	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Len Bias
1985	Georgia Tech	57–54	North Carolina	The Omni • Atlanta, GA	Mark Price
1986	Duke	68–67	Georgia Tech	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Johnny Dawkins
1987	NC State	68–67	North Carolina	Capital Centre • Landover, MD	Vinny Del Negro
1988	Duke	65–61	North Carolina	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Danny Ferry
1989	North Carolina	77–74	Duke	The Omni • Atlanta, GA	J.R. Reid
1990	Georgia Tech	70–61	Virginia	Charlotte Coliseum • Charlotte, NC	Brian Oliver
1991	North Carolina	96–74	Duke	Charlotte Coliseum • Charlotte, NC	Rick Fox
1992	Duke	94–74	North Carolina	Charlotte Coliseum • Charlotte, NC	Christian Laettner
1993	Georgia Tech	77–75	North Carolina	Charlotte Coliseum • Charlotte, NC	James Forrest
1994	North Carolina	73–66	Virginia	Charlotte Coliseum • Charlotte, NC	Jerry Stackhouse
1995	Wake Forest	82–80*	North Carolina	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Randolph Childress
1996	Wake Forest	75–74	Georgia Tech	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Tim Duncan
1997	North Carolina	64–54	NC State	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Shammond Williams
1998	North Carolina	83–68	Duke	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Antawn Jamison
1999	Duke	96–73	North Carolina	Charlotte Coliseum • Charlotte, NC	Elton Brand
2000	Duke	81–68	Maryland	Charlotte Coliseum • Charlotte, NC	Jason Williams
2001	Duke	79–53	North Carolina	Georgia Dome • Atlanta, GA	Shane Battier
2002	Duke	91–61	NC State	Charlotte Coliseum • Charlotte, NC	Carlos Boozer
2003	Duke	84–77	NC State	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Daniel Ewing
2004	Maryland	95–87*	Duke	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	John Gilchrist
2005	Duke	69–64	Georgia Tech	MCI Center • Washington, D.C.	J. J. Redick
2006	Duke	78–76	Boston College	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	J. J. Redick
2007	North Carolina	89–80	NC State	St. Pete Times Forum • Tampa, FL	Brandan Wright
2008	North Carolina	86–81	Clemson	Charlotte Bobcats Arena • Charlotte, NC	Tyler Hansbrough
2009	Duke	79–69	Florida State	Georgia Dome • Atlanta, GA	Jon Scheyer
2010	Duke	65–61	Georgia Tech	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Kyle Singler
2011	Duke	75–58	North Carolina	Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC	Nolan Smith
2012				Philips Arena • Atlanta, GA
2013				Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC
2014				Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC
2015				Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC
2016				Greensboro Coliseum • Greensboro, NC

^ The first "Charlotte Coliseum" used in the 1960s and 1970s is now known as Bojangles' Coliseum.

* Overtime

** Double overtime

Venues

• Capital Centre - Landover, Maryland (1976, 1981, 1987)
• Charlotte Coliseum - Charlotte, North Carolina (1990–94, 1999–2000, 2002)
• Bojangles Coliseum - Charlotte, North Carolina (1968–70)
• Georgia Dome - Atlanta, Georgia (2001, 2009)
• Greensboro Coliseum - Greensboro, North Carolina (1967, 1971–75, 1977–80, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1995–98, 2003–04, 2006, 2010–11, 2013–15)
• Omni Coliseum - Atlanta, Georgia (1983, 1985, 1989)
• Philips Arena - Atlanta, Georgia (2012)
• Reynolds Coliseum - Raleigh, North Carolina (1954–66)
• St. Pete Times Forum - Tampa, Florida (2007)
• Time Warner Cable Arena - Charlotte, North Carolina (2008)
• Verizon Center - Washington D.C. (2005)

Tournament championships by school

School (year joined)[1]	Winners	Years
Duke University (1953)	19	1960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1980, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
University of North Carolina (1953)	17	1957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008
N. C. State University (1953)	10	1954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1973[a], 1974, 1983, 1987
Wake Forest University (1953)	4	1961, 1962, 1995, 1996
Georgia Tech (1978)	3	1985, 1990, 1993
University of Maryland (1953)	3	1958, 1984, 2004
University of South Carolina (1953)[b]	1	1971
University of Virginia (1953)	1	1976
Boston College (2005)	0	—
Clemson University (1953)	0	—
Florida State University (1991)	0	—
University of Miami (2004)	0	—
Virginia Tech (2004)	0	—

Footnotes

• ^a The 1972–73 NC State Wolfpack team was forced to skip postseason play due to an NCAA recruiting infraction.^[2] Assistant coach Eddie Biedenbach had played in a pick-up (impromptu) basketball game with David Thompson on a recruiting visit to Raleigh, North Carolina.^[2] The Wolfpack finished the season undefeated at 27–0 but forfeited the opportunity to compete for the national championship.^[2]
• ^b The University of South Carolina left the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1971, and it is now a member of the Southeastern Conference.^[1][3]
• ^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.

References

General

Specific

Sources

• For all Tournaments played before the 1999-2000 season: ACC Basketball Archive

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