2020 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament


The 2020 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Presented by New York Life was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Atlantic Coast Conference and was held at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, from March 10–11, 2020. It was the 67th annual edition of the tournament.
This was the first edition of the tournament to not be available free-to-air at all, as the syndicated ACC package was shut down in favor of the launch of the cable-only ACCN, which exclusively carried the first round of the tournament, with the ESPN networks carrying the remainder of the tournament.
Due to ongoing concerns with the COVID-19 pandemic, officials announced that, initially, the tournament would only be played in front of essential tournament personnel, limited school administrators and student-athlete guests, broadcast television, and credentialed media members present, starting with the quarterfinals; however, shortly before the tipoff of the quarterfinal matchup between Florida State and Clemson, the ACC announced the tournament was cancelled and Florida State, the regular season champions, would receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, though that decision became moot with the NCAA Tournament's cancellation later the same day.

Seeds

Fourteen of the 15 ACC teams would have participated in the tournament; the other team, Georgia Tech, was banned from postseason play, including the conference tournament, due to NCAA rules violations. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top four seeds received double byes, while seeds 5 through 10 received single byes. Ultimately, the tournament being cancelled shortly before the quarterfinal games were to have begun resulted in the top four seeds not playing at all.
SeedSchoolConference
Record		Tiebreaker 1Tiebreaker 2Tiebreaker 3Tiebreaker 4
1Florida State16–4
2Virginia15–52–1 vs Duke/Louisville1–1 vs Louisville1–1 vs Florida State
3Louisville15–52–1 vs Duke/Virginia1–1 vs Virginia0–2 vs Florida State
4Duke15–50–2 vs Louisville/Virginia
5NC State10–102–0 vs Notre Dame/Syracuse
6Syracuse10–101–2 vs NC State/Notre Dame1–1 vs Notre Dame0–1 vs Florida State1–3 vs Virginia/Louisville/Duke
7Notre Dame10–101–2 vs NC State/Syracuse1–1 vs Syracuse0–2 vs Florida State0–3 vs Virginia/Louisville/Duke
8Clemson9–11
9Miami7–133–0 vs Boston College/Virginia Tech
10Boston College7–132–1 vs Miami/Virginia Tech
11Virginia Tech7–130–4 vs Miami/Boston College
12Wake Forest6–142–1 vs North Carolina/Pittsburgh1–0 vs Pittsburgh
13Pittsburgh6–142–1 vs North Carolina/Wake Forest0–1 vs Wake Forest
14North Carolina6–141–3 vs Pittsburgh/Wake Forest

Schedule

Bracket

Game summaries

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Awards and honors

Tournament MVP:
All-Tournament Teams: