2008 ACC Basketball Tournament
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Participants/Overview: The 2008 Athletic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament features 12 teams. The top 4 conference records are awarded a bye into the quarterfinals. All other teams must win 4 games to win the automatic bid into the Big Dance.
At the publish time of March 1st, the 2008 ACC Basketball Tournament once again will answer a lot of questions. The first being who is going to get the number 1 seed. What looked to be locked up for the Duke Blue Devils in mid February has turned into a dog fight with the North Carolina Tar Heels.
Duke had won a road contest against the Heels in early February giving them the inside track to the ACC title, but with back to back road losses against Wake Forest and Miami, the Blue Devils have opened the door for NC to snatch this years conference title. While the matchup on March 8th will likely decide who the regular season champion is, knowing how the tournament committee loves to overvalue the conference tournament performance, whichever team wins the ACC tournament will probably get a number 1 seed with the other taking a 2. Imagine this situation, Duke wins both regular season meetings, than loses to Carolina in the Atlantic Coast Tournament final. A person with an astute point of view would not reward NC for losing 2 out of the 3 season meetings, but with a panel of dim-witted people making the call, expect a dim-witted decision.
Enough about the 2 teams fans either love or hate in the conference. Three other teams, Maryland, Miami, and Clemson are all worthy of at large bids barring late season collapses. Wake Forest and Virginia Tech are both bubblish and one or the other could get in with a strong final push in the regular season and ACC basketball tournament. The matchup on Tuesday March 4th, should be an elimination game when the 2 schools meet at Virginia Tech.
Venue: Charlotte Bobcats Arena
Sponsors: RBC Centura Bank, Alltel, Pepsi, Gatorade, Geico
Dates: March 13th-March 16th
TV: The entire tournament will be broadcast on the Raycom Lincoln Financial Sports network. For others, the first round prime time game will be on ESPN 2. On Friday for the Quarterfinals ESPN2 will show all 4 games. On Saturday for the Semifinals both games will be on ESPN, and finally for the Championship game ESPN will televise at 1:00 eastern time.
ACC Tournament Schedule
March 13th - Opening Round
March 14th - Quarterfinals
March 15th - Semifinals
March 16th - Championship
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Last Years Winner
It was pitted as a matchup between good and evil, weak and small,
David and Goliath. This time the slipper didn't fit as the 10th
seeded NC State Wolfpack fell to the mighty North Carolina Tar Heels.
The win secured a number 1 seed in the Mens basketball tournament,
got Roy Williams his first ACC conference tournament title, the
Tar Heels sixteenth overall (first since 1988), tying them with
Duke for the most ACC tournament championships.
NC was led by 5 future NBA prospects, who all scored in double figures. Brandan Wright and Wayne Ellington scored 16 points a piece, Tyler Hansbrough scored 15 and was perfect from the charity stripe, while Reyshawn Terry and Ty Lawson both put 13 in the hole.
We always point out in these 12 teams fields that winning four games in four days is an improbable feat and the Wolfpack couldn't overcome those long odds. On the way to the title game Sidney Lowes team knocked off the 2 seed Virginia, 3 seed Virginia Tech and defending champion Duke in the first round, which had won seven of the previous eight ACC titles. The score was closer than the 89-80 final score indicated, but down the stretch North Carolina's superior talent out-weighed the heart of the Wolf Pack.
North Carolina would go on to win 3 straight games by double digits
in the first 3 rounds of the 2007 Mens basketball tournament before
losing to Georgetown in the elite 8. It was a coaching mismatch
and the clever, well-coached Hoyas played a team game beating the
Tar Heels 96-84.
Previous Years ACC Basketball Tournament
Brackets
2007 Champion: North Carolina
2006
Champion: Duke
2005
Champion: Duke
2004
Champion: Maryland
Off Site Links
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Charlotte Bobcats Arena Venue
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