ACC men's basketball tournament


The ACC men's basketball tournament is the conference championship tournament in men's basketball for the Atlantic Coast Conference. It has been held every year since the ACC's first basketball season concluded in 1954. The ACC tournament 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 tournament.

Tournament champions

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, meaning that the conference tournament winner is the only champion of the ACC.

Venues

VenueCityStateAppearancesLastYearsNotes
First Horizon ColiseumGreensboroNorth Carolina3020231967, 1971–75, 1977–80, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1995–98, 2003–04, 2006, 2010–11, 2013–15, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2027*, 2029*
Reynolds ColiseumRaleighNorth Carolina1319661954–66
Charlotte Coliseum
CharlotteNorth Carolina820021990–94, 1999–2000, 2002
Spectrum CenterCharlotteNorth Carolina420252008, 2019, 2025, 2026*, 2028*
Charlotte Coliseum
CharlotteNorth Carolina319701968, 1969, 1970
Capital CentreLandoverMaryland319871976, 1981, 1987
Omni ColiseumAtlantaGeorgia319891983, 1985, 1989
Capital One ArenaWashingtonD.C.320242005, 2016, 2024
Barclays CenterBrooklynNew York320222017, 2018, 2022
Georgia DomeAtlantaGeorgia220092001, 2009
Benchmark International ArenaTampaFlorida120072007
State Farm ArenaAtlantaGeorgia120122012

Tournament championships by school

SchoolYear JoinedChampionshipsChampionship Years
Duke1953231960, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1978, 1980, 1986, 1988, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2025
North Carolina1953181957, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2007, 2008, 2016
NC State1953111954, 1955, 1956, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1983, 1987, 2024
Wake Forest195341961, 1962, 1995, 1996
Georgia Tech197841985, 1990, 1993, 2021
Virginia195331976, 2014, 2018
Maryland195331958, 1984, 2004
South Carolina195311971
Florida State199112012
Miami200412013
Virginia Tech200412022
Notre Dame201312015
Clemson19530—
Boston College20050—
Syracuse20130—
Pittsburgh20130—
Louisville20140—
California20240—
Stanford20240—
SMU20240—