CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The team seedings and tournament bracket have been set for the 2024 Atlantic Coast Conference Field Hockey Championship, which will be held November 5, 6 and 8 at Kentner Stadium on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
 
North Carolina (15-0, 8-0 ACC) will be the No. 1 seed in the ACC Championship after finishing the regular season with a perfect record, capped with a victory over Duke on Friday, November 1. The Tar Heels will meet No. 8-seed California (7-9, 1-7), who qualified for the ACC Championship in its first season in the league. North Carolina defeated Cal, 3-1, when the two teams met on October 6 in Berkeley, California.
 
Duke (11-5, 6-2) earned the second seed and will meet seventh-seeded Wake Forest (7-10, 2-6) in the quarterfinal round. When the in-state rivals met in the regular season, the Blue Devils were victorious in Winston-Salem by a score of 2-0.
 
Boston College (12-5, 6-2) finished the regular season as the No. 3 seed in the league after knocking off Syracuse, 1-0, in the regular-season finale. The Eagles will square off with No. 6 seed Stanford (8-8, 2-6) in the quarterfinals as the Cardinal will make their ACC Championship debut. Boston College defeated Stanford by a score of 2-0 when the two teams met during the regular season.
 
Virginia (13-3, 6-2) earned the No. 4 seed in the ACC Championship after defeating Wake Forest 2-1 in double overtime to close the regular season. The Cavaliers will prepare to face No. 5 seed Syracuse (12-5, 4-4) in the opening round of the conference tournament. The two teams are evenly matched as the Cavaliers beat the Orange by a score of 3-2 in a shootout on October 18 in Charlottesville, Virginia.  
 
The 2024 ACC Championship game will be played at noon ET on Friday, November 8. Every game throughout the 2024 ACC Field Hockey Championship will be televised on ACC Network with Leah Secondo and Suzanne Bush on the call.
 
Five ACC field hockey programs are ranked in this week’s Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I Coaches Poll, including No. 2 North Carolina, No. 3 Virginia, No. 6 Duke, No. 9 Boston College and No. 12 Syracuse. Five of the top nine teams in the October 27 RPI rankings hail from the ACC. North Carolina leads the country at No. 1, followed by No. 3 Virginia, No. 4 Duke, No. 5 Boston College and No. 9 Syracuse. No other conference has more than two teams in the top 10.
 
ACC teams have won 23 NCAA Field Hockey Championships, including 16 of the last 22. The ACC has placed at least one team in the NCAA title game in 23 of the last 25 NCAA Championships – and 31 times in the last 34 years. In the ACC’s first 43 years as an NCAA Field Hockey conference, league teams have accounted for more than half the total appearances in the national title game (44 of 86).
 
2024 ACC Field Hockey Championship
Kentner Stadium; Winston-Salem, N.C.
All games listed in Eastern Time.
 
Quarterfinals
Tuesday, November 5
10 a.m. - #1 North Carolina vs. #8 Cal
12:30 p.m. - #4 Virginia vs. #5 Syracuse
3:30 p.m. - #2 Duke vs. #7 Wake Forest
6:00 p.m. - #3 Boston College vs. #6 Stanford
 
Semifinals
Wednesday, November 6
1 p.m. – Winner of Tuesday's Game 1 vs. Winner of Tuesday's Game 2
3:30 p.m. - Winner of Tuesday's Game 3 vs. Winner of Tuesday's Game 4
 
Championship
Friday, November 8
Noon – Semifinal winners