ACC Tournament 2024: Schedule and Bracket Predictions for Men's Conference Tourney
The ACC men's basketball season has been all about the North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils.
The two long-time rivals could face each other twice in the next week to determine the ACC's biggest prizes.
North Carolina visits Duke on Saturday to close out the regular season. The programs will be the top two seeds in the 2024 ACC tournament and should face each other in the final.
The ACC tournament will have a UNC and Duke versus the field feel to it because the rest of the conference is not as good as it has been in previous years.
The Virginia Cavaliers are the closest team to UNC and Duke in the standings, but they are 2-4 in their last six games and are squarely on the NCAA men's basketball tournament bubble.
ACC Tournament Schedule
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Tuesday, March 12
No. 12 seed vs. No. 13 seed (2 p.m. ET, ACC Network)
No. 10 seed vs. No. 15 seed (4:30 p.m. ET, ACC Network)
No. 11 seed vs. No. 14 seed (7 p.m. ET, ACC Network)
Wednesday, March 13
No. 8 seed vs. No. 9 seed (Noon ET, ESPN or ESPN2)
No. 5 seed vs. No. 12/13 winner (2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
No. 7 seed vs. No. 10/15 winner (7 p.m. ET, ESPN2)
No. 6 seed vs. No. 11/14 winner (9:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2 or ESPNU)
Thursday, March 14
No. 1 seed vs. No. 8/9 winner (Noon ET, ESPN or ESPN2)
No. 4 seed vs. No. 5 vs. 12/13 winner (2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN or ESPN2)
No. 2 seed vs. No. 7 vs. 10/15 winner (7 p.m. ET, ESPN or ESPN2)
No. 3 seed vs. No. 6 vs. 11/14 winner (9:30 p.m. ET, ESPN or ESPN2)
Friday, March 15
Semifinal No. 1 (7 p.m. ET, ESPN or ESPN2)
Semifinal No. 2 (9:30 p.m. ET, ESPN or ESPN2)
Saturday, March 16
Championship Game (8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN)
Bracket Projection
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1. North Carolina
2. Duke
3. Virginia
4. Pittsburgh
5. Wake Forest
6. Clemson
7. Syracuse
8. Virginia Tech
9. Florida State
10. NC State
11. Boston College
12. Notre Dame
13. Georgia Tech
14. Miami
15. Louisville
Saturday's showdown at Cameron Indoor Stadium should produce one of the best games of the men's college basketball season.
UNC is 16-3 in ACC play and enters Saturday on a five-game winning streak. Duke is 8-1 since its loss in Chapel Hill on February 3.
Duke has not allowed an opponent over the 70-point mark in each of its last eight wins. That will be tested by a UNC offense that put up 93 on Duke in the first meeting. The Tar Heels enter the rivalry game with four straight performances in which they held opponents under 72 points.
Even if Duke wins, UNC could still land the No. 1 seed in the ACC tournament through tiebreakers.
UNC's top seed fate could be dependent on the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Wake hosts the Clemson Tigers in a game it absolutely must win to even be considered on the March Madness bubble going into Washington, D.C.
Wake Forest is not in the field of 68 in the latest projection from Bleacher Report's Kerry Miller.
Wake must beat Clemson on Saturday and it may need a trip to the ACC tournament final to get into the bracket.
UNC would be the No. 1 seed by way of a Wake win and a Pittsburgh Panthers victory over the NC State Wolfpack due to head-to-head tiebreakers, per the Washington Post's Patrick Stevens.
Duke would claim the top seed if Pitt and Clemson both win, which is a real possibility given Wake's 0-3 record since it beat the Blue Devils at home on February 24.
Virginia was the "Last Team In" in Miller's projection. The Cavaliers must avoid a bad loss to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets on Saturday and at least reach the ACC tournament semifinals to feel somewhat safe about its Big Dance prospects.
Clemson is the only ACC team outside of UNC and Duke who should feel comfortable about dancing.
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