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

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and held at the

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, 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

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However, due to the ongoing

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, the tournament was moved to the

, on November 24, 2020. Capital One Arena will host 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

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, 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.

Schedule

Bracket

Game summaries

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Awards and honors

Source: Tournament

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: Michael Devoe, Georgia Tech All-Tournament Teams: :First Team :* Jose Alvarado, Georgia Tech :* Armando Bacot, North Carolina :*

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, Syracuse :* Michael Devoe, Georgia Tech :* Balsa Koprivica, Florida State :Second Team :*

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, Florida State :* Kameron McGusty, Miami (FL) :* Jordan Usher, Georgia Tech :* Mark Williams, Duke :* Isaiah Wong, Miami (FL)

Notes

References

External links

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