1998 ACC men's basketball tournament

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1998 ACC men's basketball tournament
Classification Division I
Season 199798
Teams9
Site Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro Coliseum
Champions North Carolina (15th title)
Winning coach Bill Guthridge (1st title)
MVP Antawn Jamison (North Carolina)
  1997
1999  
1997–98 ACC men's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 3 Duke 151 .938324  .889
No. 1 North Carolina133 .813344  .895
No. 20 Maryland 106 .6252111  .656
Wake Forest 79 .4381614  .533
Clemson 79 .4381814  .563
Georgia Tech 610 .3751914  .576
Florida State 610 .375184  .818
NC State 511 .3131715  .531
Virginia 313 .1881119  .367
1998 ACC tournament winner
Rankings from AP poll

The 1998 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament took place from March 5 to 8 in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Greensboro Coliseum. North Carolina won the tournament for the second year in a row, defeating Duke in the championship game.

Contents

From 1998 to 2000, the ACC Tournament adopted a format that in which the top-seeded team played the last-place team in the first round. The winner of this game received a bye into the semifinals. A second first-round game pitted the #7 seed versus the #8 seed. The winner of that game played the #2 seed in the quarterfinals.

Antawn Jamison of North Carolina was named tournament MVP.

Bracket

First round
March 5
Quarterfinals
March 6
Semifinals
March 7
Championship Game
March 8
            
1 #1 Duke 63
9 Virginia 41
1 #1 Duke
(bye)
1 #1 Duke66
5 Clemson 64
4 Wake Forest 56
5 Clemson 75
1 #1 Duke 68
2 #4 North Carolina83
2 #4 North Carolina 73
8 NC State 46
7 Florida State 63
8 NC State 65
2 #4 North Carolina83OT
3 #21 Maryland 73
3 #21 Maryland 83
6 Georgia Tech 65

AP rankings at time of tournament

Awards and honors

Everett Case Award

PlayerSchool
Antawn Jamison North Carolina

All Tournament Teams

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