The ACC tournament will be two games, and one day, longer
when Syracuse and Pittsburgh finally arrive from the Big East.
The conference athletic directors and basketball coaches
settled on a format for the expanded, 14-team tournament as their spring
meetings at Amelia Island, Fla. concluded on Wednesday.
The conference's leadership also sorted out the format for
its nine-game ACC football schedule.
Syracuse and Pittsburgh are expected to join the ACC for the
2013 football season and 2013-14 basketball season. The ACC tournament, for
both men's and women's basketball, will include all 14 teams, commissioner John
Swofford told the media on Wednesday.
The format for the tournament will expand to include two
games on Wednesday, between the bottom four teams from the regular-season
standings, in what amounts to two play-in games to the current, 12-team
bracket.
The No. 12 and 13 seeds will play on Wednesday, with the
winner moving into the first round against the No. 5 seed. The winner between
the No. 11 and 14 seeds will play the No. 6 seed on Thursday. The four bottom
teams will have to win five games in five days to win the tournament.
Just as in the current, 12-team format, there will still be
four games on Thursday and the top four seeds will receive a bye into Friday's
quarterfinals.
The football schedule will expand to nine conference games,
one more than the current format, when Syracuse and Pittsburgh join the league.
Syracuse will play in the Atlantic Division and Pitt will be in the Coastal
Division.
In odd-numbered years, each of the seven teams in the
Atlantic Division will play five ACC home games. In even-numbered years, each
of the Coastal Division teams will play five ACC home games.
The expanded conference schedule eliminates one of the four
nonconference games on the schedule.
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