The 2020 ACC men's basketball tournament presented by New York Life was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the

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and was held at the

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, from March 10 to 11, 2020. It was the 67th annual edition of the tournament. This was the first edition of the tournament to not be available

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at all, as the syndicated ACC package was shut down in favor of the launch of the cable-only

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, which exclusively carried the first round of the tournament, with the

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networks carrying the remainder of the tournament. Due to ongoing concerns with the

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, 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

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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, though that decision became moot with the NCAA Tournament's cancellation later the same day. Florida State was awarded the conference championship along with the trophy for the 2020 tournament.

Seeds

Fourteen of the 15 ACC teams would have participated in the tournament; the other team,

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, was banned from postseason play, including the conference tournament, due to NCAA rules violations. 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 10 received single byes. Ultimately, the tournament being canceled shortly before the quarterfinal games were to have begun resulted in the top four seeds not playing at all.

Schedule

Bracket

Game summaries

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Awards and honors

Tournament

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References

External links

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