2025 NCAA Tournament Bracket
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – Four Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball teams earned bids to the 2025 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, as Clemson, Duke, Louisville and North Carolina were selected to the 68-team event, which opens Tuesday, March 18, with First Four games in Dayton, Ohio. The first round will be contested Thursday and Friday, March 20-21, with second-round games on Saturday and Sunday, March 22-23.
After winning both the ACC regular-season championship and T. Rowe Price ACC Tournament, Duke (31-3, 19-1 ACC) earned the second overall seed and the No. 1 seed in the East Region. The Blue Devils earned their 15th No. 1 seed in program history and play the winner of Wednesday’s American-Mount St. Mary’s First Four matchup on Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Blue Devils are making their 47th NCAA appearance and the third straight under Jon Scheyer. The Blue Devils are 122-41 all-time in NCAA Tournament action, with national championships in 1991, 1992, 2001, 2010 and 2015.
Clemson (27-7, 18-2) claimed the No. 5 seed in the Midwest Region and faces No. 12 seed McNeese on Thursday in Providence, Rhode Island. The Tigers will be making their 14th tournament appearance, including their second straight and fifth under head coach Brad Brownell. The Tigers are 12-13 all-time in NCAA Tournament play, including an Elite Eight appearance last season.
Louisville (27-6, 18-2) notched a No. 8 seed in the South Region and plays No. 9 seed Creighton on Thursday in Lexington, Kentucky. The Cardinals are making their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2019. Louisville will make its 40th appearance in the NCAA Tournament, winning the championship in 1980 and 1986.
North Carolina (22-13, 13-7) claimed a bid as a No. 11 seed in the South Region and takes on San Diego State in the First Four on Tuesday in Dayton, Ohio, with the winner advancing to face No. 6 seed Ole Miss on Friday in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. UNC is making its 54th appearance in the NCAA Tournament – most of any ACC program – and third under head coach Hubert Davis, who guided UNC to the national championship game in his first season in 2022. UNC owns a 133-50 record in the tournament with NCAA titles in 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009 and 2017.
The ACC has captured three of the last nine NCAA Championships (Duke 2015, North Carolina 2017 and Virginia 2019). Since 2015, the ACC leads all conferences in Men’s Final Four appearances (9) and NCAA Tournament wins (111), with three national championships. Six different ACC programs have reached the Final Four since 2015 (Duke, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia, Syracuse) – the most schools of any league in that span.
The ACC is 33-15 in the NCAA Tournament in the last three seasons, best of any major conference.
ACC Men's Basketball has won 15 NCAA national championships overall. Teams currently in the ACC have combined to win eight of the last 23 NCAA crowns and 19 overall. Since the tournament expanded in 1985, nearly half of the ACC teams that earned NCAA Tournament bids have reached the Sweet 16 (105 of 214).