ACC Tournament 2026 Men's Semifinals Scores, Championship Bracket and Schedule
The top two teams in the ACC will meet for the second time this season in Saturday's 2026 ACC tournament final.
The top-seeded Duke Blue Devils defeated the Virginia Cavaliers in their lone regular-season meeting on February 28.
Virginia bounced back from the 26-point defeat to Duke with four straight wins, including two in a row in Charlotte.
Duke is dealing with more injuries than it was back in February, but it proved on Friday night that it can win big against one of its top challengers in the ACC.
ACC Tournament Semifinal Scores
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No. 1 Duke 73, No. 5 Clemson 61
No. 2 Virginia 84, No. 3 Miami 62
Championship Game Preview
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Saturday, 8:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
Duke comes into the ACC tournament final off two wildly different performances in Charlotte.
The Blue Devils barely avoided defeat against the Florida State Seminoles in the quarterfinals, but then they easily dealt with the Clemson Tigers in the semifinals.
Cameron Boozer and Isaiah Evans are still scoring at a high level, but Duke needs one or two of its depth players to replace the void left open by the injured Caleb Foster and Patrick Ngongba. On Friday, Cayden Boozer stepped in with 16 points.
Cameron Boozer and Evans combined for 39 points in the 77-51 win over Virginia at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Evans scored 15 of his 19 points from three-point range.
Virginia went 7-for-35 from three and only had Thijs De Ridder score in double figures in that game.
The Cavaliers need a much better all-around game to be competitive with the Blue Devils on Saturday.
Virginia's X-factor could be Ugonna Onyenso, who had 25 points, 11 rebounds and 12 blocks in the first two rounds.
If Onyenso takes away some of Duke's driving threat into the paint, UVA can hang within single digits for most of the game.
Duke still has the best player on the floor in Boozer, but at minimum, we should expect a better effort from UVA this time around.
