The 2021 ACC men's basketball tournament (officially the 2021 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament Presented by New York Life) was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Atlantic Coast Conference and held at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, from March 9 to 13, 2021. It was the 68th annual edition of the tournament.
The 2021 Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament was originally scheduled to be hosted at the Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was moved to the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 24, 2020. Capital One Arena eventually hosted the tournament in 2024.
Virginia and Duke elected to withdraw from the tournament due to some of their players testing positive for COVID-19.
The tournament final was the second-ever ACC championship game, and the first since Georgia Tech beat Virginia in 1990, to feature no teams from the state of North Carolina.
Seeds
All 15 ACC teams were scheduled to participate in the tournament. 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 9 received single byes.
Seed School ConferenceRecord Tiebreaker1Virginia13–42Florida State11–43Virginia Tech9–44Georgia Tech11–65Clemson10–61–0 vs. North Carolina6North Carolina10–60–1 vs. Clemson7Louisville8–58Syracuse9–79NC State9–810Duke9–911Notre Dame7–1112Pittsburgh6–1013Miami4–1514Wake Forest3–1515Boston College2–11
Schedule SessionGameTimeMatchupScoreTelevisionAttendance First round – Tuesday, March 9Opening day12:00 pmNo. 12 Pittsburgh vs. No. 13 Miami73–79ACCN2,82024:30 pmNo. 10 Duke vs. No. 15 Boston College86–5137:00 pmNo. 11 Notre Dame vs. No. 14 Wake Forest80–77 Second round – Wednesday, March 101412:00 pmNo. 8 Syracuse vs. No. 9 NC State89–68ACCN2,82052:30 pmNo. 5 Clemson vs. No. 13 Miami64–67266:30 pmNo. 7 Louisville vs. No. 10 Duke56–702,82079:00 pmNo. 6 North Carolina vs. No. 11 Notre Dame101–59 Quarterfinals – Thursday, March 113812:00 pmNo. 1 Virginia vs. No. 8 Syracuse72–69ESPN22,82092:30 pmNo. 4 Georgia Tech vs. No. 13 Miami70–664106:30 pmNo. 2 Florida State vs. No. 10 DukeCancelledESPN2,820118:30 pmNo. 3 Virginia Tech vs. No. 6 North Carolina73-81 Semifinals – Friday, March 125126:30 pmNo. 1 Virginia vs. No. 4 Georgia TechCancelledESPN22,820138:30 pmNo. 2 Florida State vs. No. 6 North Carolina69–66ESPN Championship – Saturday, March 136148:30pmNo. 2 Florida State vs. No. 4 Georgia Tech75–80ESPN 2,820 Game times in ET. Rankings denote tournament seed.
Bracket
Game summaries
First round
Second round
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
Awards and honors
Source:
Tournament MVP: Michael Devoe, Georgia Tech
All-Tournament Teams:
First Team Jose Alvarado, Georgia Tech Armando Bacot, North Carolina Buddy Boeheim, Syracuse Michael Devoe, Georgia Tech Balsa Koprivica, Florida State
Second Team Scottie Barnes, Florida State Kameron McGusty, Miami (FL) Jordan Usher, Georgia Tech Mark Williams, Duke Isaiah Wong, Miami (FL)
See also 2021 ACC women's basketball tournament
Notes
References
External links 2021 ACC men's basketball tournament