2026 ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament

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”Day one sees but a single original ACC team playing, the Big Four Demon Deacons.”

Saw "not" where you wrote "but." Sorry. And thanks for my needed lesson in reading more carefully after a long day of work.

 

[donbosco]

“We have a reset button,” Kyltmpxzm said. “If Zion’s healthy, we’ll have a chance.” (And there goes the bus the dook coach threw his team under with that remark). #OTD IN 2019.

 

[aGDevil2k]

“We have a reset button,” Kyltmpxzm said. “If Zion’s healthy, we’ll have a chance.” (And there goes the bus the dook coach threw his team under with that remark). #OTD IN 2019.

He wasnt wrong

 

[Centerpiece]

SMU
Wake
Pitt in a squeaker

 

[rodoheel]

Does anyone understand why, now that there are 18 ACC teams, we only have 15 teams in the conference tourney, rather than an even 16?

 

[1moretimeagain]

It just doesn’t feel like Tournament Tuesday without the Wolfpack on the docket.

 

[Zoo_View]

It just doesn’t feel like Tournament Tuesday without the Wolfpack on the docket.

I’d love to see a Will Wade Invitational.

 

[JCTarheel82]

I’d love to see a Will Wade Invitational.

Is that where you're invited to leave college basketball for a couple years via a show-cause order?

 

[SnoopRob]

Does anyone understand why, now that there are 18 ACC teams, we only have 15 teams in the conference tourney, rather than an even 16?

To give the best teams a double bye, the best chance to win, & less chance at injury.

 

[BillOfRights]

To give the best teams a double bye, the best chance to win, & less chance at injury.

The tournament could have 1 more game on day 1 without affecting anything else.

 

[Calheel]

The tournament could have 1 more game on day 1 without affecting anything else.

If you aren't good enough for the top 15, you don't deserve a tourny invite.

 

[BillOfRights]

If you aren't good enough for the top 15, you don't deserve a tourny invite.

That wasn't the question.

If you aren't good enough for the top 14, you don't deserve a tourny invite.
If you aren't good enough for the top 13, you don't deserve a tourny invite.
If you aren't good enough for the top 12, you don't deserve a tourny invite.

And if you aren't good enough for the top 8, you don't deserve a tourney invite. Let's go back to an 8 team tournament.

The tournament was 15 teams when there were 15 teams in the ACC. There's no reason not to have 16 teams in the tournament that i'm aware of.

 

[Calheel]

That wasn't the question.

If you aren't good enough for the top 14, you don't deserve a tourny invite.
If you aren't good enough for the top 13, you don't deserve a tourny invite.
If you aren't good enough for the top 12, you don't deserve a tourny invite.

And if you aren't good enough for the top 8, you don't deserve a tourney invite. Let's go back to an 8 team tournament.

The tournament was 15 teams when there were 15 teams in the ACC. There's no reason not to have 16 teams in the tournament that i'm aware of.

I'm fine with all that.

Sure, it is a stupid format. But who the heck cares? If you aren't in the top 10 of the ACC, you are an afterthought anyway.

 

[BillOfRights]

I'm fine with all that.

But yet the league invites the twelfth thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth teams to the tournament. Can you explain why they stopped at fifteen and not sixteen?

You still didn't address the initial question.

 

[SnoopRob]

The tournament could have 1 more game on day 1 without affecting anything else.

Huh, so they could.

Maybe they don't want a team who finished (roughly) top half (8.5 rounded to 9) to have to play 5 games to win the title?

Or maybe they just were lazy and didn't want to change anything when they added 3 more teams?

I dunno that the reasoning has ever been made public.

 

[rodoheel]

To give the best teams a double bye, the best chance to win, & less chance at injury.

16 teams instead of 15 would not change anything about the 4 double byes. It would just mean the 9 seed wouldn’t have a single bye.

 

[donbosco]

The All-ACC first team includes Caleb Wilson, Duke's Cameron Boozer, Stanford's Ebuka Okorie, Miami's Mailk Reneau and Virginia's Thijs De Ridder.

The second team includes Henri Veesaar, SMU's Boopie Miller, Wake Forest's Juke Harris, Miami's Tre Donaldson and Louisville's Ryan Conwell.

The third team includes Isaiah Evans, Duke, Mikel Brown Jr., Louisville, Quadir Copeland, NC State, Robert McCray V, Florida State, and Dai Dai Ames, California.

Seth Trimble was Honorable Mention

The rookie team included Wilson, Boozer, Okorie, Louisville's Mikel Brown Jr. and De Ridder.

Player of the Year – Cameron Boozer, Fr., F, Duke
Defensive Player of the Year – Maliq Brown, Sr., F, Duke
Rookie of the Year – Cameron Boozer, F, Duke
Most Improved Player – Juke Harris, So., G, Wake Forest
Sixth Man of the Year – Maliq Brown, Sr., F, Duke
Coach of the Year – Jon Scheyer, Duke

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Wilson & Veesaar Earn All-ACC Honors - University of North Carolina Athletics

Freshman forward Caleb Wilson earned first-team All-ACC honors and red-shirt junior center Henri Veesaar made the second team, the conference announced on Mo...

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[Zoo_View]

That wasn't the question.

If you aren't good enough for the top 14, you don't deserve a tourny invite.
If you aren't good enough for the top 13, you don't deserve a tourny invite.
If you aren't good enough for the top 12, you don't deserve a tourny invite.

And if you aren't good enough for the top 8, you don't deserve a tourney invite. Let's go back to an 8 team tournament.

The tournament was 15 teams when there were 15 teams in the ACC. There's no reason not to have 16 teams in the tournament that i'm aware of.

There is no reason to have the ACC Tournament.

Ol’ Roy is correct about that.

 

[BillOfRights]

There is one reason to have the ACC Tournament.

Money

FIFY

 

[Calheel]

But yet the league invites the twelfth thirteenth fourteenth and fifteenth teams to the tournament. Can you explain why they stopped at fifteen and not sixteen?

You still didn't address the initial question.

I'm pretty sure I did.