2014-15 ANNUAL REPORT

ACC MEN’s BASKETBALL
2015 Champion / Notre Dame
2013 Champions / Virginia
- NOTRE DAME claimed its first conference men’s basketball championship,
defeating North Carolina, 90-82, in the New York Life ACC Tournament
finals in Greensboro.
- Virginia repeated as ACC regular-season champion to mark the first
time in league history that the ACC has boasted a different regularseason,
conference tournament and NCAA Championship team in the
same year.
- Duke defeated Wisconsin, 68-63, in the NCAA championship game at
Indianapolis for the program’s fifth national title. It is the nation-leading
sixth national championship by an ACC school in the last 15 years and
the 13th overall.
- Six ACC teams earned NCAA Tournament bids, and a league-record five
teams earned Sweet 16 berths. Three – Duke, Louisville and Notre Dame
– reached the Elite Eight.
- With a 17-5 record in NCAA Tournament play, ACC teams have won half
or more of their tournament games in 28 consecutive years. That’s the
longest run of its kind.
- The ACC’s 17 wins in the NCAA Tournament set a new league record and
tied for the second-most by any conference all-time.
- Duke’s Jahlil Okafor and Notre Dame’s Jerian Grant (New York Life ACC
Tournament MVP) earned consensus All-America honors. Duke’s Tyus
Jones was named the Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Final Four.
- Led by No. 1 Duke, the ACC had six teams ranked in the final Coaches’
Poll, including four among the top 10 and five among the top 12.
- With Duke ranked No. 4, Virginia No. 6 and Notre Dame No. 8 by the
Associated Press, the ACC extended its streak of having at least one
team ranked in the top 10 of the final AP poll to 55 consecutive seasons.
- The ACC was the only conference with two teams among the final NCAA
RPI top seven (Duke at No. 5 and Virginia at No. 7).
- For the first time in league history, three teams finished with 30 or
more wins and six with at least 25 wins.
- ACC posted a 167-51 (.766) record against non-conference teams during
the 2014-15 season, including a nation’s best 21-11 record against
nationally ranked teams.
- With a Jan. 25 win over St. John’s at Madison Square Garden, Duke’s
Mike Krzyzewski became the first NCAA Division I head coach to win
1,000 games. He finished the season with 1,018 career wins following
the Blue Devils’ run to the national title.
- The 2014-15 season ended with past or present ACC coaches holding
the top five places on the NCAA Tournament’s all-time win list. Duke’s
Mike Krzyzewski leads with 88, followed by the late Dean Smith (North
Carolina) and current UNC coach Roy Williams with 65 apiece. Syracuse’s
Jim Boheim and Louisville’s Rick Pitino follow with 53 each. Krzyzewski,
Williams and Pitino combined for 11 wins in the 2015 NCAAs.
- With his fifth NCAA Championship, Duke’s Krzyzewski ranks second alltime
only to the legendary John Wooden of UCLA, who won 10.
- Miami advanced to the finals of the 2015 NIT at New York’s Madison
Square Garden before losing to Stanford, 66-64, in overtime.
- For a second straight year the ACC set a single-season attendance
record, eclipsing the 3 million mark for the first time in league history.
With three teams among the top four in average attendance (and four
of the top seven in total attendance), the league’s 15 schools totaled
3,069,296 over 263 regular-season games and seven New York Life ACC
Tournament sessions.
40 2014-15 ACC ANNUAL REPORT / ACC CHAMPIONSHIPS / WINTER SPORTS