ACC Tournament Locations for 2026, 2027 and Beyond

Nate Cunningham | Mar 13, 2025

The ACC women's basketball tournament runs from March 5-9 while the men's tournament is March 11-15. / David Yeazell-Imagn Images

A complete guide to the future host cities and venues for the ACC men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. 

Historically, no conference has been more prolific in college basketball than the ACC. Its members have combined for 68 men’s Final Four appearances and 24 women’s appearances. The ACC has a combined 18 national championships. 

But those runs begin before Selection Sunday. They begin in the ACC tournament.

According to ACC bylaws, the winner of the tournament is the lone recognized champion of the league (so the conference doesn’t recognize the team with the best conference record in the regular season). 

The teams are seeded by conference win-loss record into a single-elimination bracket. However, not every team gets to participate. After the conference expanded to 18 schools for the 2024–25 season, only the top 15 seeds will be invited to the conference tournament. 

By bringing only 15 teams into the tournament, the ACC can still use the five-day tournament structure that it has been using for years. 

Teams with a top-4 seed will receive a double-bye into the quarterfinal round, meaning those programs would need just three victories to win the ACC tournament. The teams seeded Nos. 5–8 start a day earlier and need four wins. The bottom seeds (Nos. 9–15) play on the opening night and must win five games. 

The men’s tournament has been played in nine different cities since its inception in 1954, while the women’s tournament began in 1978 and has also been hosted by nine different cities (although they differ from the location of the men’s tournament).  

In this post we’ll be breaking down the locations of future ACC tournaments, for both men’s and women’s basketball. 

Confirmed ACC Tournament Locations for 2026 & 2027

ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament Dates & Locations

Year	Arena	City
2025	Spectrum Center	Charlotte, North Carolina
2026	Spectrum Center	Charlotte, North Carolina
2027	First Horizon Center	Greensboro, North Carolina
2028	Spectrum Center	Charlotte, North Carolina
2029	First Horizon Center	Greensboro, North Carolina

ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament Dates & Locations

Year	Arena	City
2025	First Horizon Center	Greensboro, North Carolina
2026	TBD
2027	Spectrum Center	Charlotte, North Carolina

ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament Winner By Year

Duke leads the way with 22 ACC tournament victories, with North Carolina winning 18. North Carolina State is the only other ACC school with at least 10 tournament championships, winning 11, including the latest. 

Wake Forest and Georgia Tech each have four, Virginia and Maryland each have three and South Carolina, Florida State, Miami, Virginia Tech and Notre Dame each have one win. 

Clemson, Boston College, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Cal, Stanford and SMU are all still searching for their first ACC tournament championship. 

Year	Winner	MVP
1954	North Carolina State	Dickie Hemric
1955	North Carolina State	Ron Shavlik
1956	North Carolina State	Vic Molodet
1957	North Carolina	Lennie Rosenbluth
1958	Maryland	Nick Davis
1959	North Carolina State	Lou Pucillo
1960	Duke	Doug Kistler
1961	Wake Forest	Len Chappell
1962	Wake Forest	Len Chappell
1963	Duke	Art Heyman
1964	Duke	Jeff Mullins
1965	North Carolina State	Larry Worsley
1966	Duke	Steve Vacendak
1967	North Carolina	Larry Miller
1968	North Carolina	Larry Miller
1969	North Carolina	Charlie Scott
1970	North Carolina State	Vann Williford
1971	South Carolina	John Roche
1972	North Carolina	Bob McAdoo
1973	North Carolina State	Tommy Burleson
1974	North Carolina State	Tommy Burleson
1975	North Carolina	Phil Ford
1976	Virginia	Wally Walker
1977	North Carolina	John Kuester
1978	Duke	Jim Spanarkel
1979	North Carolina	Dudley Bradley
1980	Duke	Albert King
1981	North Carolina	Sam Perkins
1982	North Carolina	James Worthy
1983	North Carolina State	Sidney Lowe
1984	Maryland	Len Bias
1985	Georgia Tech	Mark Price
1986	Duke	Johnny Dawkins
1987	North Carolina State	Vinny Del Negro
1988	Duke	Danny Ferry
1989	North Carolina	JR Reid
1990	Georgia Tech	Brian Oliver
1991	North Carolina	Rick Fox
1992	Duke	Christian Laettner
1993	Georgia Tech	James Forrest
1994	North Carolina	Jerry Stackhouse
1995	Wake Forest	Randolph Childress
1996	Wake Forest	Tim Duncan
1997	North Carolina	Shammond Williams
1998	North Carolina	Antawn Jamison
1999	Duke	Elton Brand
2000	Duke	Jay Williams
2001	Duke	Shane Battier
2002	Duke	Carlos Boozer
2003	Duke	Daniel Ewing
2004	Maryland	John Gilchrist
2005	Duke	JJ Redick
2006	Duke	JJ Redick
2007	North Carolina	Brandan Wright
2008	North Carolina	Tyler Hansbrough
2009	Duke	Jon Scheyer
2010	Duke	Kyle Singler
2011	Duke	Nolan Smith
2012	Florida State	Michael Snaer
2013	Miami	Shane Larkin
2014	Virginia	Joe Harris
2015	Notre Dame	Jerian Grant
2016	North Carolina	Joel Berry II
2017	Duke	Luke Kennard
2018	Virginia	Kyle Guy
2019	Duke	Zion Williamson
2020	No Tournament (COVID-19)
2021	Georgia Tech	Michael Devoe
2022	Virginia Tech	Hunter Cattoor
2023	Duke	Kyle Filipowski
2024	North Carolina State	DJ Burns

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