ACC WBB At A Glance
• The ACC will send five teams to the Sweet 16, the second-most among all conferences and tying the league record set in 2015.
• Duke, Louisville, North Carolina, Notre Dame and Virginia all earned berths into the Sweet 16.
• The ACC has sent at least three teams to the Sweet 16 every year since 2014.
• Per STATS Report, each ACC team will be the lower seed in their regional semifinal matchup. The conference is 11-41 (.212) all-time in regional semifinal games as the lower seed, but six of those upsets have come since 2014 (6-14).
• The most the ACC has had advance to the Elite Eight is three teams, which occurred in 1998, 2006, 2014 and 2023.
• The ACC's 13 victories in this year's tournament are the second-most among all conferences, one victory behind the SEC. The ACC holds a .765 winning percentage in this year's tournament.
• Despite the league recording just four ranked wins during the regular season, ACC teams are 4-2 against teams ranked in the latest AP Top 25 during the NCAA Tournament. The ACC is 10-5 against peer power-conference teams during the tournament.
• At least one ACC team has advanced to the Elite Eight in each of the past 23 NCAA Tournaments, with Duke earning a spot last season. It is the longest streak of any conference, and the next closest is 16.
• The ACC had a conference-record nine teams in the NCAA Tournament, breaking the conference’s previous record of eight teams set nine times since 2014.
• Clemson, Duke, Louisville, North Carolina, NC State, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Virginia and Virginia Tech earned bids.
• Since 2018, the ACC has earned 65 bids to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, the most among all conferences.
• The ACC has had at least eight teams in the NCAA Tournament in eight straight years (2018-2026; excluding 2020). That is the longest such streak among all conferences all-time – the next closest conference is the SEC with an active three-year streak (2024-2026).
• ACC teams are 67-17 (.798) in the Round of 64 over the last 11 NCAA tournaments (2015-2026; excluding 2020). That is the most wins by any conference in the round and the second-best winning percentage behind the Pac-12 (46-9, .836).
ACC Teams in the Rankings
• Four teams appear in the latest AP Poll: Duke (No. 8), Louisville (No. 13), North Carolina (No. 15) and Notre Dame (No. 22).
• The same four teams appear in the latest USA TODAY Coaches Poll: Duke (No. 10), Louisville (No. 14), North Carolina (No. 15) and Notre Dame (No. 25).
• The ACC entered the NCAA Tournament with 12 teams in the top 60 of the NET, tied for the second-most among all conferences: Duke (No. 8), Louisville (No. 11), North Carolina (No. 19), Notre Dame (No. 21), NC State (No. 26), Virginia (No. 36), Syracuse (No. 39), Virginia Tech (No. 40), Clemson (No. 41), Stanford (No. 44), California (No. 52) and Miami (No. 57).
• Four ACC teams finished in the top 25 of the WAB rankings: Duke (No. 10), Louisville (No. 11), North Carolina (No. 15) and Notre Dame (No. 22).
Ally ACC Women's Basketball Tournament
• Duke won the 2026 Ally ACC Women's Basketball Tournament on March 8, its second straight ACC title. The Blue Devils are the first team to repeat as ACC champions since NC State won three straight from 2020-22.
• After defeating Louisville in the first overtime championship game since 2009, the title was Duke's 10th all-time, tying Maryland for the most in ACC history.
• Duke became the first team to win the outright regular season and the tournament titles since NC State swept the awards in 2022.
• The ACC Tournament was held at Gas South Arena in Duluth, Georgia, marking the first time in the 49 years of the event the tournament was held at a neutral site outside the Carolinas.
• The 50th edition of the ACC Tournament will be held at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.