2023–24 Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Basketball Season
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The 2023–24 Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball season began with practices in October 2023, followed by the start of the
2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season The 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season began on November 6, 2023. The regular season ended on March 17, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament beginning on March 20 and ending with the 2024 NCAA Division ...
in November. Conference play started in December 2023 and ended on March 3, 2024. After the regular season, the
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was held at the
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in
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for the 24th time in 25 years.
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finished as regular season champions, finishing one game ahead of
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, Notre Dame and
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. NC State and Syracuse were surprise finishers, as they were picked 8th and 9th, respectively, in the preseason poll. Virginia Tech could not convert their regular season championship into a Tournament championship, as Notre Dame won the ACC Tournament over NC State. The ACC sent eight teams to the NCAA Tournament. They finished with an overall record of 11–8 and NC State made it the furthest in the tournament. NC State reached the Final Four before losing to
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Head coaches


Coaching changes

* On March 3, 2023, just after the regular season
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fired Lance White after five years as head coach. On April 7, 2023, Pittsburgh announced that
Tory Verdi Tory Verdi is an American women's basketball coach with the UMass Minutewomen basketball team of the Atlantic 10 Conference. He was named to the position on April 9, 2016. Head coaching record Sources: * IVY League * Columbia Record Book * MA ...
had been hired from
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to become the next head coach of the team.


Coaches

''Notes:'' * Year at school includes 2023–24 season. * Overall and ACC records are from time at current school and are through the end the 2022–23 season. * NCAA tournament appearances are from time at current school only. * NCAA Final Fours and Championship include time at other schools


Preseason


Preseason watch lists

Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.


ACC Women's Basketball Tip-off

The Preseason Media Poll and Preseason All-ACC teams was released after a tipoff event held at Hilton Hotel in uptown
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on October 24, 2023. At the event, two players and each team's head coach will be available to talk to the media.
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provided coverage of the event for television. The poll was released on October 26, 2023, and the results of the poll are below.


ACC Preseason poll

# Virginia Tech – 1,116 (45) # Notre Dame – 1,052 (14) # North Carolina – 973 (1) # Louisville – 867 (1) # Florida State – 855 # Miami – 702 # Duke – 686 # NC State – 652 # Syracuse – 504 # Virginia – 438 # Clemson – 395 # Georgia Tech – 342 # Boston College – 226 # Wake Forest – 192 # Pittsburgh – 120 First-place votes shown in parentheses.


Preseason All-ACC Team

ACC Preseason Player of the Year shown in Bold.
First-place votes shown in parentheses.
Maddy Westbeld (Notre Dame) and Amari Robinson (Clemson) each received a first place vote but were not selected to the All-ACC Team.


Newcomer Watchlist


Regular season


Records against other conferences

2023–24 records against non-conference foes. Records shown for regular season only. Statistics through games played on January 27, 2024.


Record against ranked non-conference opponents

This is a list of games against ranked opponents only (rankings from the AP Poll): ''Team rankings are reflective of
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when the game was played, not current or final ranking'' ''† denotes game was played on neutral site''


Rankings


Conference Matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team played 18 conference games, and at least 1 against each opponent.


Player of the week

Throughout the conference regular season, the
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offices named a Player(s) of the week and a Rookie(s) of the week.


Postseason


ACC Tournament


NCAA tournament


WBIT tournament


Honors and awards


All-Americans


ACC Awards

The ACC announced its end of season awards on March 5, 2024 ahead of the start of the ACC tournament.


WNBA draft

The ACC had three players selected in the 2024 WNBA draft.


References

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