2017 ACC women's basketball tournament

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2017 ACC women's basketball tournament
2017 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament logo.png
Classification Division I
Season 201617
Teams15
Site HTC Center
Conway, South Carolina
Champions Notre Dame (4th title)
Winning coach Muffet McGraw (4th title)
MVP Lindsay Allen (Notre Dame)
Attendance30,117
Television ESPN, ESPNU, ACCRSN
  2016
2018  
2016–17 ACC women's basketball standings
ConfOverall
TeamW L PCTW L PCT
No. 2 Notre Dame 151 .938334  .892
No. 9 Duke 133 .813286  .824
No. 10 Florida State 133 .813287  .800
No. 13 Louisville 124 .750298  .784
No. 17 NC State 124 .750239  .719
No. 21 Syracuse 115 .6882211  .667
No. 16 Miami (FL) 106 .625249  .727
Virginia 79 .4382013  .606
Wake Forest 610 .3751616  .500
Georgia Tech 511 .3132214  .611
Virginia Tech 412 .2502014  .588
Pittsburgh 412 .2501317  .433
Clemson 313 .1881516  .484
North Carolina 313 .1881516  .484
Boston College 214 .125921  .300
2017 ACC tournament winner
As of March 29, 2017
Rankings from AP poll

The 2017 Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for the Atlantic Coast Conference was held March 1 to 5 in Conway, South Carolina, at the HTC Center. [1] It was originally scheduled to be played in Greensboro, North Carolina, but was moved due to HB2 law. Notre Dame won their 4th straight ACC tournament title to earn an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament.

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Seeding

Tournament seeds are determined by teams' regular season conference record with tiebreakers determined by ACC tiebreaking rules.

2017 ACC women's basketball tournament seeds and results
SeedSchoolConf.Over.Tiebreaker
1Notre Dame15–127–3
2Florida State13–325–51–0 vs. Duke
3Duke13–325–40–1 vs. Florida State
4NC State12–422–71–0 vs. Louisville
5Louisville12–425–60–1 vs. NC State
6Syracuse11–520–9
7Miami10–621–7
8Virginia7–918–11
9Wake Forest6–1015–14
10Georgia Tech5–1116–13
11Pittsburgh4–1213–161–0 vs. Virginia Tech
12Virginia Tech4–1217–120–1 vs. Pittsburgh
13Clemson3–1314–151–0 vs. North Carolina
14North Carolina3–1314–150–1 vs. Clemson
15Boston College2–149–20
‡ – ACC regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed.
† – Received a double-bye in the conference tournament.
# – Received a single-bye in the conference tournament.
Overall records include all games played in the ACC Tournament.

Schedule

SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance
First round – Wednesday, March 1
111:00 pm#13 Clemson vs #12 Virginia Tech ACCRSN 2,769
23:30 pm#15 Boston College vs #10 Georgia Tech
36:30 pm#14 North Carolina vs #11 Pittsburgh2,475
Second round – Thursday, March 2
2411:00 am#13 Clemson vs #5 LouisvilleACC Network
FSN
2,613
52:00 pm#9 Wake Forest vs #8 Virginia2,466
366:00 pm#10 Georgia Tech vs #7 Miami3,145
78:00 pm#14 North Carolina vs #6 Syracuse
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 3
4811:00 am#5 Louisville vs #4 NC StateACCRSN3,004
92:00 pm#8 Virginia vs #1 Notre Dame2,845
5106:00 pm#7 Miami vs #2 Florida State3,600
118:00 pm#6 Syracuse vs #3 Duke
Semifinals – Saturday, March 4
61212:00 pm#5 Louisville vs #1 Notre Dame ESPN2 3,600
132:30 pm#7 Miami vs. #3 Duke ESPNU
Championship Game – Sunday, March 5
7141:00 pm#1 Notre Dame vs #3 Duke ESPN2 3,600
*Game Times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

First round
Wednesday, March 1
ACCRSN
Second round
Thursday, March 2
ACCRSN
Quarterfinals
Friday, March 3
ACCRSN
Semifinals
Saturday, March 4
ESPNU
Championship game
Sunday, March 5
ESPN2
1Notre Dame76
8Virginia618Virginia59
9Wake Forest441Notre Dame84
5Louisville73
4NC State58
5Louisville685Louisville59
12Virginia Tech6613Clemson461Notre Dame84
13Clemson673Duke61
2Florida State54
7Miami877Miami56
10Georgia Tech7110Georgia Tech717Miami52
15Boston College673Duke57
3Duke68
6Syracuse836Syracuse46
11Pittsburgh6014North Carolina64
14North Carolina72

Awards and honors

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