ACC Men’s Basketball Conference Tournament: Full Results, Bracket and Champion

The Duke Blue Devils won a thriller in the championship game over Virginia to likely lock up a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

Tyler Lauletta

Duke forward Cameron Boozer celebrates during the ACC men’s tournament against Virginia. / Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images

The ACC men’s basketball conference tournament championship game delivered in a high-intensity matchup as Duke prevailed in a 74–70 win over Virginia which likely secured a No. 1 seed on Selection Sunday and with it, hopefully a solid path to the Final Four.

Below we look at the ACC tournament as it happened, and how we made it to Saturday’s showdown.

ACC men’s basketball final regular-season standings

Rank	Team	Conference record	Overall record
1.	(1) Duke	17–1	29–2
2.	(10) Virginia	15–3	27–4
3.	Miami	13–5	24–7
4.	(19) North Carolina	12–6	24–7
5.	Clemson	12–6	22–9
6.	(24) Louisville	11–7	22–9
7.	NC State	10–8	19–12
8.	Florida State	10–8	17–14
9.	California	9–9	21–10
10.	Stanford	9–9	20–11
11.	SMU	8–10	19–12
12.	Virginia Tech	8–10	19–12
13.	Wake Forest	7–11	16–15
14.	Syracuse	6–12	15–16
15.	Pittsburgh	5–13	12–19
16.	Notre Dame	4–14	13–18
17.	Boston College	4–14	11–20
18.	Georgia Tech	2–16	11–20

ACC men’s basketball conference tournament bracket

The bracket for the ACC men’s basketball conference tournament. | ACC

ACC men’s basketball conference tournament full schedule

March 10: First round

Game 1: No. 15 Pittsburgh 64, No. 10 Stanford 63
Game 2: No. 11 SMU 86, No. 14 Syracuse 69
Game 3: No. 13 Wake Forest 95, No. 12 Virginia Tech 89 (OT)

March 11: Second round

Game 4: No. 7 NC State 98, No. 15 Pittsburgh 88
Game 5: No. 6 Louisville 62, No. 11 SMU 58
Game 6: No. 8 Florida State 95, No. 9 California 89
Game 7: No. 5 Clemson 71, No. 13 Wake Forest 62

March 12: Quarterfinals

Game 8: No. 2 Virginia 81, No. 7 NC State 74
Game 9: No. 3 Miami 78, No. 6 Louisville 73
Game 10: No. 1 Duke 80, No. 8 Florida State 79
Game 11: No. 5 Clemson 80, No. 4 North Carolina 79

March 13: Semifinals

Game 12: No. 2 Virginia 84, No. 3 Miami 62
Game 13: No. 1 Duke 73, No. 5 Clemson 61

March 14: Championship game

Game 13: No. 1 Duke 74, No. 2 Virginia 70

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Tyler Lauletta

Tyler Lauletta was a staff writer for the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI, he covered sports for nearly a decade at Business Insider, and helped design and launch the OffBall newsletter. He is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, and remains an Eagles and Phillies sicko. When not watching or blogging about sports, Tyler can be found scratching his dog behind the ears.