2017 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament

The 2017 Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament was a postseason women's basketball tournament for the Atlantic Coast Conference was held from March 1 to 5, 2017, 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.

2017 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2016–17
Teams	15
Site	HTC Center Conway, South Carolina
Champions	Notre Dame (4th title)
Winning coach	Muffet McGraw (4th title)
MVP	Lindsay Allen (Notre Dame)
Attendance	30,117
Television	ESPN, ESPNU, ACCN, FSN
ACC Women's Basketball Tournaments

2016–17 ACC women's basketball standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 2 Notre Dame^†	15	–	1		.938			33	–	4		.892
No. 9 Duke	13	–	3		.813			28	–	6		.824
No. 10 Florida State	13	–	3		.813			28	–	7		.800
No. 13 Louisville	12	–	4		.750			29	–	8		.784
No. 17 NC State	12	–	4		.750			23	–	9		.719
No. 21 Syracuse	11	–	5		.688			22	–	11		.667
No. 16 Miami (FL)	10	–	6		.625			24	–	9		.727
Virginia	7	–	9		.438			20	–	13		.606
Wake Forest	6	–	10		.375			16	–	16		.500
Georgia Tech	5	–	11		.313			22	–	14		.611
Virginia Tech	4	–	12		.250			20	–	14		.588
Pittsburgh	4	–	12		.250			13	–	17		.433
Clemson	3	–	13		.188			15	–	16		.484
North Carolina	3	–	13		.188			15	–	16		.484
Boston College	2	–	14		.125			9	–	21		.300
† 2017 ACC Tournament winner As of March 29, 2017; Rankings from AP Poll

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
Seed	School	Conf.	Over.	Tiebreaker
1	Notre Dame	15–1	27–3
2	Florida State	13–3	25–5	1–0 vs. Duke
3	Duke	13–3	25–4	0–1 vs. Florida State
4	NC State	12–4	22–7	1–0 vs. Louisville
5	Louisville	12–4	25–6	0–1 vs. NC State
6	Syracuse	11–5	20–9
7	Miami	10–6	21–7
8	Virginia	7–9	18–11
9	Wake Forest	6–10	15–14
10	Georgia Tech	5–11	16–13
11	Pittsburgh	4–12	13–16	1–0 vs. Virginia Tech
12	Virginia Tech	4–12	17–12	0–1 vs. Pittsburgh
13	Clemson	3–13	14–15	1–0 vs. North Carolina
14	North Carolina	3–13	14–15	0–1 vs. Clemson
15	Boston College	2–14	9–20
‡ – 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

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television	Attendance
First Round – Wednesday, March 1
1	1	1:00 pm	#13 Clemson vs #12 Virginia Tech	ACC Network FSN	2,769
	2	3:30 pm	#15 Boston College vs #10 Georgia Tech
	3	6:30 pm	#14 North Carolina vs #11 Pittsburgh		2,475
Second Round – Thursday, March 2
2	4	11:00 am	#13 Clemson vs #5 Louisville	ACC Network FSN	2,613
	5	2:00 pm	#9 Wake Forest vs #8 Virginia		2,466
3	6	6:00 pm	#10 Georgia Tech vs #7 Miami		3,145
	7	8:00 pm	#14 North Carolina vs #6 Syracuse
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 3
4	8	11:00 am	#5 Louisville vs #4 NC State	ACC Network FSN	3,004
	9	2:00 pm	#8 Virginia vs #1 Notre Dame		2,845
5	10	6:00 pm	#7 Miami vs #2 Florida State		3,600
	11	8:00 pm	#6 Syracuse vs #3 Duke
Semifinals – Saturday, March 4
6	12	12:00 pm	#5 Louisville vs #1 Notre Dame	ESPN2	3,600
	13	2:30 pm	#7 Miami vs. #3 Duke	ESPNU
Championship Game – Sunday, March 5
7	14	12:30 pm	#1 Notre Dame vs #3 Duke	ESPN2	3,600
*Game Times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seed

Bracket

	First Round Wednesday, March 1 ACCN					Second Round Thursday, March 2 ACCN					Quarterfinals Friday, March 3 ACCN					Semifinals Saturday, March 4 ESPNU					Championship Game Sunday, March 5 ESPN
											1	Notre Dame	76
											8	Virginia	59
						8	Virginia	61
						9	Wake Forest	44
																1	Notre Dame	84
																5	Louisville	73
											4	NC State	58
											5	Louisville	59
						5	Louisville	68
						13	Clemson	46
	12	Virginia Tech	66
	13	Clemson	67
																					1	Notre Dame	84
																					3	Duke	61
											2	Florida State	54
											7	Miami	56
						7	Miami	87
						10	Georgia Tech	71
	10	Georgia Tech	71
	15	Boston College	67
																7	Miami	52
																3	Duke	57
											3	Duke	68
											6	Syracuse	46
						6	Syracuse	83
						14	North Carolina	64
	11	Pittsburgh	60
	14	North Carolina	72

See also

• 2017 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament

References

1. "ACC Women's Basketball Tournament Set for Conway, SC". ACC. Archived from the original on November 6, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2016.