A complete guide to the future host cities and venues for the ACC men’s and women’s basketball tournaments.
Historically, no conference has been more prolific in college basketball than the ACC. Its members have combined for 68 men’s Final Four appearances and 24 women’s appearances. The ACC has a combined 18 national championships.
But those runs begin before Selection Sunday. They begin in the ACC tournament.
According to ACC bylaws, the winner of the tournament is the lone recognized champion of the league (so the conference doesn’t recognize the team with the best conference record in the regular season).
The teams are seeded by conference win-loss record into a single-elimination bracket. However, not every team gets to participate. After the conference expanded to 18 schools for the 2024–25 season, only the top 15 seeds will be invited to the conference tournament.
By bringing only 15 teams into the tournament, the ACC can still use the five-day tournament structure that it has been using for years.
Teams with a top-4 seed will receive a double-bye into the quarterfinal round, meaning those programs would need just three victories to win the ACC tournament. The teams seeded Nos. 5–8 start a day earlier and need four wins. The bottom seeds (Nos. 9–15) play on the opening night and must win five games.
The men’s tournament has been played in nine different cities since its inception in 1954, while the women’s tournament began in 1978 and has also been hosted by nine different cities (although they differ from the location of the men’s tournament).
In this post we’ll be breaking down the locations of future ACC tournaments, for both men’s and women’s basketball.
Confirmed ACC Tournament Locations for 2026 & 2027
ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament Dates & Locations
ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament Dates & Locations
ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament Winner By Year
Duke leads the way with 22 ACC tournament victories, with North Carolina winning 18. North Carolina State is the only other ACC school with at least 10 tournament championships, winning 11, including the latest.
Wake Forest and Georgia Tech each have four, Virginia and Maryland each have three and South Carolina, Florida State, Miami, Virginia Tech and Notre Dame each have one win.
Clemson, Boston College, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Cal, Stanford and SMU are all still searching for their first ACC tournament championship.
This article was originally published on www.si.com as ACC Tournament Locations for 2026, 2027 and Beyond.
