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in November. Conference play started in December 2024 and concluded in March 2025. The

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was held at the

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, in March 2025. This was the 71st season of

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basketball and the first season in which 18 teams competed in the conference, after the additions of

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, SMU, and

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on July 1, 2024. The top 15 teams from regular season play earned postseason bids to the 2025 ACC men's basketball tournament. The

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finished as regular season champions with a 19–1 conference record. They finished one game ahead of Clemson and

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who were both 18–2. They title was Duke's twenty-first overall. Duke also went on to win the ACC tournament over Louisville. It was their twenty-third tournament title, which is the most in conference history. Four ACC teams qualified for the NCAA tournament and they finished with a 5–4 overall record. Duke made it the furthest out of any of the teams, reaching the Final Four.

Head coaches

Coaching changes

*On March 13, 2024, the Louisville Cardinals fired head coach

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. The Cardinals hired

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as his replacement on March 28, 2024. *On March 21, 2024, the SMU Mustangs fired head coach Rob Lanier after two seasons. On April 1, the school named

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head coach

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the team's new head coach. *On March 14, 2024, the Stanford Cardinal fired head coach

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after eight seasons. Kyle Smith was hired as his replacement from

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on March 25, 2024. *On October 17, 2024, former

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coach

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announced his retirement effective immediately after 15 seasons. Assistant coach

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was named as the replacement. *On December 26, 2024,

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announced his retirement after starting the season 4–8. Larrañaga was in his fourteenth season as head coach. Bill Courtney was named interim head coach for the remainder of the season on the same day.

Coaches

''Notes:'' * Year at school includes 2024–25 season. * Overall and ACC records are from the time at current school and are through the end of the 2023–24 season. * NCAA tournament appearances are from the time at current school only. * NCAA Final Fours and championship include time at other schools

Preseason

Recruiting classes

''Notes:'' * Rankings are up to date as of August 14, 2024.

Preseason watchlists

Preseason polls

ACC Preseason Media poll

The preseason poll and Preseason All-ACC Teams were released in October 15, 2024, prior to the season beginning and after ACC Media Day. The results of the poll are below.

=Preseason poll

=Preseason All-ACC teams

=ACC preseason player of the year

= * R.J. Davis – North Carolina (40) * Cooper Flagg – Duke (10) * Hunter Sallis – Wake Forest (3) *

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– Stanford (1)

=ACC preseason freshman of the year

= * Cooper Flagg – Duke (53) * Jeremiah Wilkinson – California (1)

Early season tournaments

Source:

Regular season

Rankings

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

Player of the week

Throughout the conference regular season, the

offices named Player(s) of the week and Rookie(s) of the week.

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was named Rookie of the Week a total of twelve times throughout the season, which was the most ever in the ACC. The previous record of ten times was held by three players.

Records against other conferences

2024–25 records against non-conference foes. Records shown for regular season only.

Postseason

ACC tournament

*The 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament was held at the

, from March 11–15, 2025.

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.