ACC Women's Basketball Tournament | |
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Conference Basketball Championship | |
2009 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament logo
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Sport | College basketball |
Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
Number of teams | 15 |
Format | Single-elimination tournament |
Current stadium | Greensboro Coliseum |
Current location | Greensboro, North Carolina |
Played | 1978–present |
Last contest | 2017 |
Current champion | Notre Dame |
Most championships | Maryland (10) |
TV partner(s) | CSN, FS Florida, FS South, NESN |
Official website | theACC.com |
The ACC Women's Basketball Tournament is the conference championship tournament in basketball for the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The tournament has been held every year since 1978, several years before the first NCAA championships for women. It is a single-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner, declared conference champion, receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship.
* record attendance.
Italics indicate a school no longer in the conference.
Wake Forest reached the semifinals in 1986, 1988, and 2012; Boston College reached the semifinals in 2010; Miami reached the semifinals in 2011 and 2016; Louisville reached the semifinals in 2015 and 2016; Virginia Tech reached the quarterfinals in 2006, 2007, and 2015; Pittsburgh reached the 2nd round in 2015 and 2016.
On May 15, 2014, it was announced that the tournament will be held in Greensboro through 2022, although the 2017 tournament was moved.