2013–14 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season explained

2013–14 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season
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League:	NCAA Division I
Sport:	Basketball
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No Of Teams:	15
Tv:	ACCN, ESPN, Raycom Sports, Learfield Sports, CBS
Season:	Regular season
Season Champs:	Virginia
Season Champ Name:	First place
Mvp:	T. J. Warren, NC State
Mvp Link:	Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
Finals:	ACC tournament
Finals Link:	2014 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
Finals Champ:	Virginia
Finals Runner-Up:	Duke
Finals Mvp:	Joe Harris, Virginia
Finals Mvp Link:	ACC Men's Basketball Tournament#Tournament Champions
Seasonslistnames:	Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball
Prevseason Link:	2012–13 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season
Prevseason Year:	2012–13
Nextseason Link:	2014–15 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season
Nextseason Year:	2014–15

The 2013–14 ACC men's basketball season began with practices in October 2013, followed by the start of the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. Conference play started in early January 2014 and concluded in March with the 2014 ACC men's basketball tournament at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro. The 2013–14 season marked the first season for three new additions to the conference from the Big East: Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse. It was also the final ACC season for conference charter member Maryland, which left after the season for the Big Ten Conference.

Pre-season

	Media^[1]
1.	Duke (50)
2.	Syracuse (3)
3.	North Carolina (1)
4.	Virginia
5.	Notre Dame
6.	Pittsburgh
7.	Maryland
8.	Boston College
9.	Florida State
10.	NC State
11.	Georgia Tech
12.	Miami
13.	Wake Forest
14.	Clemson
15.	Virginia Tech

first place votes

Pre-season All-ACC teams

• Coaches select 8 players
• Players in bold are choices for ACC Player of the Year

Rankings

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

See main article: 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings.

	Pre	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Wk 17	Wk 18	Wk 19	Post
Boston College	AP	RV
C
Clemson	AP
C
Duke	AP	4	4	6	6	10	8	8	9	7	16	23	18	17	11	8	5	6	4	7	8
C	4	4	6	5	8	7	8	9	8	13	20	18	16	11	9	6	7	4	6	6
Florida State	AP			RV	RV	RV			RV	RV
C				RV	RV			RV	RV
Georgia Tech	AP
C
Maryland	AP
C
Miami	AP
C
North Carolina	AP	12	12	24	16	RV	18	14	19	RV	RV					RV	RV	19	14	15	19
C	11	11	19	16	RV	21	18	19	RV	RV						RV	21	14	15	18
NC State	AP
C
Notre Dame	AP	21	21	RV							RV
C	22	22	RV	RV	RV
Pittsburgh	AP	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	22	20	18	25	25	RV		RV
C	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	21	19	17	22	23	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV
Syracuse	AP	8	9	9	8	4	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	4	7	11	14
C	7	7	7	7	5	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	5	7	11	12
Virginia	AP	24	25	RV	RV	RV	RV					RV	RV	RV	20	17	14	12	5	6	3
C	25	25	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV					RV	RV	21	16	13	11	5	8	4
Virginia Tech	AP
C
Wake Forest	AP
C

Conference schedules

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play during the regular season. Records in parentheses are head-to-head results between teams in conference play during the regular season and in the post-season conference tournament.

	Boston College	Clemson	Duke	Florida State	Georgia Tech	Maryland	Miami	North Carolina	NC State	Notre Dame	Pittsburgh	Syracuse	Virginia	Virginia Tech	Wake Forest
CLEM	DUKE	FSU	GT	MARY	MIAMI	UNC	NCSU	ND	PITT	CUSE	UVA	VT	WAKE -->	vs. Boston College	–	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0 (3-0)	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–2	0–1
vs. Clemson	0–1	–	0–1 (1-1)	1–1	0–2 (0-3)	0–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1
vs. Duke	0–1	1–0 (1-1)	–	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1 (0-2)	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–1 (1-1)	0–1	1–1
vs. Florida State	0–1	1–1	1–0	–	0–1	1–1 (1-2)	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–0 (3-0)	0–1	0–1
vs. Georgia Tech	0–2 (0-3)	2–0 (3-0)	2–0	1–0	–	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–1
vs. Maryland	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1 (2-1)	0–1	–	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	0–2	0–1
vs. Miami	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	0–1	1–0	–	0–1	1–1 (2-1)	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	2–0 (2-1)	0–1
vs. North Carolina	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–0	–	0–2	0–2	0–1 (1-1)	1–0	1–0	0–1	1–1
vs. N.C. State	0–1	1–0	1–0 (2-0)	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–1 (1-2)	2–0	–	0–1	1–1	1–0 (1-1)	1–0	0–1	1–1
vs. Notre Dame	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	1–0	–	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–0 (2-0)
vs. Pittsburgh	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	1–0 (1-1)	1–1	0–1	–	2–0	1–0 (2-0)	0–1	0–1 (0-2)
vs. Syracuse	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	0–1	0–1 (1-1)	0–1	0–2	–	1–0	0–1	0–1
vs. Virginia	0–1	0–1	1–0 (1-1)	0–2 (0-3)	0–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–1 (0-2)	0–1	–	0–2	0–1
vs. Virginia Tech	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–2 (1-2)	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	–	1–0
vs. Wake Forest	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1 (0-2)	1–0 (2-0)	1–0	1–0	0–1	–	CLEM	DUKE	FSU	GT	MARY	MIAMI	UNC	NCSU	ND	PITT	CUSE	UVA	VT	WAKE -->
Total	4–14 (4-15)	10–8 (11-9)	13–5 (15-6)	9–9 (10-10)	6–12 (7-13)	9–9 (9-10)	7–11 (8-12)	13–5 (13-6)	9–9 (11-10)	6–12 (6-13)	11–7 (13-8)	14–4 (14-5)	16–2 (19-2)	2–16 (2-17)	6–12 (7-13)

Boston College

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Clemson

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Duke

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Florida State

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Georgia Tech

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Maryland

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Miami

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North Carolina

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N.C. State

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Notre Dame

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Pittsburgh

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Syracuse

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Virginia

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Virginia Tech

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Wake Forest

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Player of the week

Players of the weekThroughout the conference regular season, the Atlantic Coast Conference offices named one or two players of the week and one or two freshmen of the week each Monday.

Week	Player of the week	Freshman of the week
November 11, 2013^[2]	Trevor Cooney, Syracuse	Jabari Parker, Duke
November 18, 2013^[3]	Olivier Hanlan, Boston College	Jabari Parker (2), Duke
Jabari Parker, Duke
November 25, 2013^[4]	Marcus Paige, UNC	Jabari Parker (3), Duke
December 2, 2013^[5]	Lamar Patterson, Pitt	Tyler Ennis, Syracuse
December 9, 2013^[6]	Jarell Eddie, Va. Tech	Kennedy Meeks, UNC
December 16, 2013^[7]	Marcus Paige (2), UNC	Roddy Peters, Maryland
December 23, 2013^[8]	Aaron Thomas, Florida St	Jabari Parker (4), Duke
December 30, 2013^[9]	Eric Atkins, ND	Tyler Ennis (2), Syracuse
January 6, 2014^[10]	Eric Atkins (2), ND	Steve Vasturia, ND
January 13, 2014^[11]	Lamar Patterson (2), Pitt	Jaron Blossomgame, Clemson
January 20, 2014^[12]	Rasheed Sulaimon, Duke	Tyler Ennis (3), Syracuse
January 27, 2014^[13]	Lamar Patterson (3), Pitt	Jabari Parker (5), Duke
Travis McKie, Wake
February 3, 2014^[14]	C. J. Fair, Syracuse	Jabari Parker (6), Duke
Tyler Ennis (4), Syracuse
February 10, 2014^[15]	Jabari Parker (2), Duke	Jabari Parker (7), Duke
February 17, 2014^[16]	James Michael McAdoo, UNC	Jabari Parker (8), Duke
February 24, 2014^[17]	Marcus Paige (3), UNC	Jabari Parker (9), Duke
March 3, 2014^[18]	Malcolm Brogdon, UVA	Tyler Ennis (5), Syracuse
Marcus Paige (4), UNC
March 10, 2014^[19]	T. J. Warren, NC State	Jabari Parker (10), Duke

Honors and awards

All-Americans

See main article: 2014 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans.

All-ACC awards and teams

Coaches

2014 ACC Men's Basketball Individual Awards^[20]
Award	Recipient(s)
Player of the Year	T. J. Warren, F., NC STATE
Coach of the Year	Tony Bennett, VIRGINIA
Defensive Player of the Year	K. J. McDaniels, F., CLEMSON
Rookie of the Year	Jabari Parker, F., DUKE

2014 ACC Men's Basketball All-Conference Teams^[21]
First Team	Second Team	Third Team	Honorable Mention
C. J. Fair, Sr., F., SYRACUSE K. J. McDaniels, Jr., F., CLEMSON Marcus Paige, So., G., NORTH CAROLINA Jabari Parker, Fr., F., DUKE T. J. Warren, So., F., NC STATE	Malcolm Brogdon, So., G., VIRGINIA Tyler Ennis, Fr., G., SYRACUSE Rodney Hood, So., F., DUKE James Michael McAdoo, Jr., F., NORTH CAROLINA Lamar Patterson, Sr., F., PITTSBURGH	Rion Brown, Sr., G., MIAMI Olivier Hanlan, So., F., BOSTON COLLEGE Joe Harris, Sr., G., VIRGINIA Daniel Miller, Sr., C., GEORGIA TECH Dez Wells, Jr., G., MARYLAND	Ryan Anderson, Jr., F., BOSTON COLLEGE Eric Atkins, Sr., G., NOTRE DAME Jerami Grant, So., F., SYRACUSE Akil Mitchell, Sr., F., VIRGINIA Aaron Thomas, So., F., FLORIDA STATE Talib Zanna, Sr., F., PITTSBURGH
† - denotes unanimous selection

Postseason

ACC tournament

See main article: 2014 ACC men's basketball tournament.

• March 12–16, 2014 Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament, Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro.

2014 ACC men's basketball tournament seeds and results
Seed	School	Conf.	Over.	Tiebreaker	Tiebreaker 2	First Round March 12	Second Round March 13	Quarterfinals March 14	Semifinals March 15	Championship March 16
1.	Virginia^†‡	16-2	25-6			BYE	BYE	vs. #9 Florida State – W, 64–51	vs. #5 Pittsburgh – W, 51–48	vs. #3 Duke - W, 72–63
2.	Syracuse^†	14-4	27-4			BYE	BYE	vs. #7 NC State – L, 63–66
3.	Duke^†	13-5	24-7	1-1 vs. UNC	1-0 vs. UVA	BYE	BYE	vs. #6 Clemson – W, 63–62	vs. #7 NC State – W, 75–67	vs. #1 Virginia - L, 63–72
4.	North Carolina^†	13-5	23-8	1-1 vs. DUKE	0-1 vs. UVA	BYE	BYE	vs. #5 Pittsburgh – L, 75–80
5.	Pittsburgh^#	11-7	23-8			BYE	vs. #12 Wake Forest – W, 84–55	vs. #4 North Carolina – W, 80–75	vs. #1 Virginia – L, 48–51
6.	Clemson^#	10-8	19-11			BYE	vs. #11 Georgia Tech – W, 69–65^OT	vs. #3 Duke – L, 62–63
7.	N.C. State^#	9-9	19-12	2-0 vs. MD, FSU		BYE	vs. #10 Miami - W, 67–58	vs. #2 Syracuse - W, 66–63	vs. #3 Duke - l, 67–75
8.	Maryland^#	9-9	17-14	1-1 vs. FSU (0-1 vs. NCST)	1-1 vs. UVA	BYE	vs. #9 Florida State - L, 65–67
9.	Florida State^#	9-9	18-12	1-1 vs. MD (0-1 vs. NCST)	0-2 vs. UVA	BYE	vs. #8 Maryland - W, 67–65	vs. #1 Virginia – L, 51–64
10.	Miami (FL)	7-11	16-15			vs. #15 Virginia Tech - W, 57–53	vs. #7 NC State - L, 57–68
11.	Georgia Tech	6-12	15-16	2-1 vs. WF, ND		vs. #14 Boston College - W, 73-70^OT	vs. #6 Clemson – L, 65–69^OT
12.	Wake Forest	6-12	16-15	1-1 vs. GT, ND		vs. #13 Notre Dame - W, 81–69	vs. #5 Pittsburgh - L, 55–84
13.	Notre Dame	6-12	15-16	1-2 vs. GT, WF		vs. #12 Wake Forest - L, 69–81
14.	Boston College	4-14	8-23			vs. #11 Georgia Tech - L, 70-73^OT
15.	Virginia Tech	2-16	9-21			vs. #10 Miami - L, 53–57
‡ – ACC regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed. † – Received a double-bye in the conference tournament. # – Received a single-bye in the conference tournament. Overall records include all games played in the ACC tournament.

NCAA tournament

See main article: 2014 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

Seed	Region	School	First Four	Second Round	Third Round	Sweet 16	Elite Eight	Final Four	Championship
1	East	Virginia		16 Coastal Carolina W, 70–59	8 Memphis W, 78–60	4 Michigan State L, 59-61
3	Midwest	Duke		14 Mercer L, 71–78
3	South	Syracuse		14 Western Michigan W, 77–53	11 Dayton L, 53–55
6	East	North Carolina		11 Providence W, 79–77	3 Iowa State L, 83-85
9	South	Pittsburgh		8 Colorado W, 77–48	1 Florida L, 45-61
12	Midwest	NC State	12 Xavier W, 74–59	5 St. Louis L, 83-85^OT

Notes and References

1. Duke Picked As ACC Basketball Preseason Favorite . Atlantic Coast Conference . October 16, 2013 . October 16, 2013.
2. Web site: Syracuse's Cooney, Duke's Parker honored after opening games. November 18, 2013. November 11, 2013. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
3. Web site: BC's Hanlan, Duke's Parker Earn @ACCMBB Weekly Honors. November 18, 2013. November 18, 2013. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
4. Web site: Blue Devils' Parker picks up third ACC Rookie of the Week honor. November 25, 2013. November 25, 2013. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
5. Web site: Pitt's Patterson named Player of the Week; Syracuse's Ennis earn Rookie honor. December 2, 2013. December 2, 2013. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
6. Web site: Virginia Tech's Eddie named POTW; UNC's Meeks top rookie. December 10, 2013. December 9, 2013. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
7. Web site: North Carolina's Paige, Maryland's Peters Honored as @ACCMBB Players of the Week. December 16, 2013. December 16, 2013. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
8. Web site: Florida State's Thomas, Duke's Parker earn weekly honors. December 23, 2013. December 23, 2013. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
9. Web site: Notre Dame's Atkins honored, Syracuse's Ennis named top rookie. December 30, 2013. December 30, 2013. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
10. Web site: Notre Dame sweeps honors following homecourt win over Duke. January 6, 2014. January 6, 2014. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
11. Web site: Pitt's Patterson, Clemson's Blossomgame receive honors. January 13, 2014. January 13, 2014. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
12. Web site: Duke's Sulaimon, Syracuse's Ennis earn weekly honors. January 20, 2014. January 20, 2014. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
13. Web site: Pitt's Patterson, Wake Forest's McKie and Duke's Parker pick up weekly honors. January 27, 2014. January 27, 2014. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
14. Web site: Syracuse's Fair and Ennis, Duke's Parker recognized. February 3, 2014. February 3, 2014. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
15. Web site: Duke's Jabari Parker sweeps Player and Rookie honors. February 10, 2014. February 10, 2014. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
16. Web site: UNC's McAdoo named Player of the Week; Duke's Parker repeats as top Rookie. February 17, 2014. February 17, 2014. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
17. Web site: UNC's Paige voted Player of the Week; Duke's Parker again top Rookie. February 25, 2014. February 24, 2014. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
18. Web site: Virginia's Brogdon, North Carolina's Paige, Syracuse's Ennis receive honors. March 3, 2014. March 3, 2014. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
19. Web site: NC State's Warren, Duke's Parker receive season's final honor. March 10, 2014. March 10, 2014. Atlantic Coast Conference. TheACC.com.
20. http://www.theacc.com/#!/news-detail/NC-State-Warren-Voted-ACC-Player-Of-The-Year_03-11-14_neqit7 2014 ACC Men's Basketball Awards Announced
21. http://www.theacc.com/#!/news-detail/ACSMA-2013-14-All-ACC-Basketball-Team-Announced_03-10-14_lzzl91 2014 ACC Men's Basketball Awards Announced