The 2019–20 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2019, followed by the start of the
2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 5, 2019. The first tournament was the 2K Sports Classic and the season concluded prematurely on March 12, 2020. The 2020 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was sch ...
in November. Conference play started in late December 2019 and concluded in March with the
2020 ACC men's basketball tournament
The 2020 ACC men's basketball tournament presented by New York Life was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Atlantic Coast Conference and was held at the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Caroli ...
at the
Greensboro Coliseum
The Greensboro Coliseum Complex, commonly referred to as Greensboro Coliseum (the first and biggest building on the site), is an entertainment and sports complex located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Opened in 1959, the complex holds eight venu ...
in
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte and Raleigh, the 69th-most populous city in the Un ...
. The season marks 66th season of
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ...
basketball.
The post season was cut short due to the
COVID-19 outbreak
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified ...
. On March 12, the NCAA announced the tournament would be cancelled, along with all remaining winter and spring championships. The
ACC tournament was cancelled after the second round and the
NCAA tournament and
NIT were both cancelled before they began.
Head coaches
Coaching change
*In April, 2019,
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ...
head coach
Buzz Williams
Brent Langdon "Buzz" Williams (born September 1, 1972) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach at Texas A&M University. He previously served as head coach at Virginia Tech from 2014 to 2019, Marquette from 2008 to 2014, and New Orl ...
accepted the head coaching job with
Texas A&M
Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...
. On April 7, 2019, the school hired
Wofford head coach
Mike Young as the new Virginia Tech head coach.
Coaches
''Notes:''
* Year at school includes 2019–20 season.
* Overall and ACC records are from time at current school and are through the end the 2018–19 season.
* NCAA tournament appearances are from time at current school only.
* NCAA Final Fours and Championship include time at other schools
Preseason
Preseason watchlists
Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.
Preseason polls
ACC Preseason Media Poll
The ACC Men's Basketball media preseason poll was released at Operation Basketball, hosted at the Charlotte Marriott City Center in
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...
on October 8, 2019. Two members of each team, in addition to the team's head coaches were in attendance. The preseason poll and preseason All-ACC Teams were voted on at Operation Basketball. The results of the voting is shown below.
Preseason poll
First place votes shown in parenthesis.
# Duke (51)– 1,564
# North Carolina (19) – 1,493
# Louisville (29) – 1,448
# Virginia (12) – 1,405
# Florida State – 1,157
# NC State – 1,038
# Notre Dame – 915
# Syracuse – 910
# Miami – 768
# Pittsburgh – 577
# Clemson – 564
# Georgia Tech – 437
# Boston College – 382
# Virginia Tech – 334
# Wake Forest – 328
Preseason All-ACC teams
ACC preseason player of the year
*
Jordan Nwora
Jordan Ifeanyi Nwora (born September 9, 1998) is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Louisville Cardinals. He plays interna ...
– Louisville (55)
*
Cole Anthony
Cole Hinton Anthony (born May 15, 2000) is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels. Listed at and , he plays t ...
– North Carolina (31)
*
Tre Jones
Tre Isiah Jones (born January 8, 2000) is an American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils.
High school career
Jones played h ...
– Duke (19)
*
John Mooney – Notre Dame (3)
*
Mamadi Diakite
Mamadi Diakite (born January 21, 1997) is a Guinean professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Cleveland Charge of the NBA G League. He played college ba ...
– Virginia (2)
*
Markell Johnson
Markell Davon Johnson (born August 25, 1998) is an American professional basketball player for BC Astana of the Kazakhstan Basketball Championship and the VTB United League. He played college basketball for the NC State Wolfpack.
High school care ...
– NC State (1)
ACC preseason rookie of the year
*
Cole Anthony
Cole Hinton Anthony (born May 15, 2000) is an American professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels. Listed at and , he plays t ...
– North Carolina (89)
*
Vernon Carey Jr.
Vernon A. Carey Jr. (born February 25, 2001) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils men's basket ...
– Duke (8)
*
Wendell Moore Jr.
Wendell Horace Moore Jr. (born September 18, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils.
High school caree ...
– Duke (5)
*Casey Morsell – Virginia (3)
*
Cassius Stanley
Cassius Jerome Stanley (born August 18, 1999) is an American professional basketball player for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils.
High school career
Stanley first attended Ha ...
– Duke (3)
*
Matthew Hurt
Matthew Christopher Hurt (born April 20, 2000) is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Hustle of the NBA G League. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils.
High school career
Hurt attended John Marshall High S ...
– Duke (3)
Regular season
Rankings
Notes:
The week 2 Coaches Poll was released on the same date as the week 3 AP poll. No Coaches poll was released on the date when the week 2 AP Poll was released.
The AP poll does not release a final poll after the NCAA tournament, where as the Coaches Poll does.
Due to the cancellation of the NCAA and NIT Tournaments, the Coaches Poll did not release a final poll.
Conference matrix
This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team will play 20 conference games, and at least 1 against each opponent. The 2019–2020 season marked the first year that the ACC played a 20-game conference slate.
Player of the week
Throughout the conference regular season, the
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ...
offices named one or two Players of the week and one or two Rookies of the week.
Records against other conferences
2019–20 records against non-conference foes through games played on December 30, 2019. Records shown for regular season only.
Postseason
ACC tournament
Due to ongoing concerns with the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...
, officials announced that, initially, the tournament would only be played in front of essential tournament personnel, limited school administrators and student-athlete guests, broadcast television, and credentialed media members present, starting with the quarterfinals; however, shortly before the tipoff of the quarterfinal matchup between
Florida State
Florida State University (FSU) is a public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1851, it is located on the oldest continuous site of higher e ...
and
Clemson, the ACC announced the tournament was canceled and Florida State, the regular season champions, would receive the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
NCAA tournament
National Invitation tournament
Honors and awards
All-Americans
To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.
ACC Awards
Source:
NBA draft
The ACC had a total of eight players selected in the 2020 NBA Draft.
Attendance
References
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