The ACC won its last college basketball national championship during Virginia’s magical March Madness run in 2019.
In 2018, UVA made history as the first No. 1 seed to ever lose to a No. 16 seed in the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. But the team persevered through a difficult offseason and came back stronger the following season, earning the six tournament wins it needed to make them champions.
ACC National Championship History
Historically, the ACC is one of the most powerful conferences in college basketball, winning more than a dozen championships over the last 50 years.
A closer examination of the record books reveals that the ACC’s power is less about the conference as a whole and more about a few square miles in North Carolina.
Of the 15 national champions that have hailed from the ACC since 1950, only two of them weren’t won by Duke, North Carolina, or NC State.
One of them was the aforementioned UVA run in 2019; the other was Gary Williams’ 2002 title at Maryland. That program has since left for the Big Ten.
ACC Men’s Basketball Championships
| Year | Men's Team |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Virginia |
| 2017 | North Carolina |
| 2015 | Duke |
| 2010 | Duke |
| 2009 | North Carolina |
| 2005 | North Carolina |
| 2002 | Maryland |
| 2001 | Duke |
| 1993 | North Carolina |
| 1992 | Duke |
| 1991 | Duke |
| 1983 | NC State |
| 1982 | North Carolina |
| 1974 | NC State |
| 1957 | North Carolina |
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