The UNC basketball team is the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament. Their first game will be Thursday at noon in the quarterfinal round.
The Tar Heels will play the winner of the No. 9 Syracuse and No. 8 Pittsburgh. That game will be played on Wednesday at noon.
No. 13 Wake Forest and No. 12 NC State play in the first tournament game at noon on Tuesday. The winner will play No. 5 Duke at 2 PM on Wednesday.
Boston College (No. 14) and Florida State (No. 11) square off in the other Tuesday game. The tip-off is at 2 PM and the winner plays No. 6 Virginia Tech.
Also, on Wednesday, Georgia Tech (No. 10) will take on Clemson (No. 7).
The semifinal round of the ACC Tournament will take place Friday night. The championship game is Saturday night at 9 PM.
The 2016 ACC Tournament is at Washington, D.C.’s Verizon Center. This is the second time the ACC Tournament has been held in that building. In 2005, the tournament was played there when the building was known as the MCI Center. The Capital Centre in nearby Landover, Maryland hosted the tournament three times (1976, 1981, and 1987).
The UNC basketball team clinched the ACC regular season championship with a Saturday night victory over Duke.
The Tar Heels will be playing for their 18th ACC Tournament Championship. Their last conference tournament win came in 2008.
Starting with the quarterfinal round on Thursday, you can hear all of the ACC Tournament games on 97.9 FM and 1360 AM WCHL.
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