CURRENT ACC MEMBERS AND THE NCAA TOURNAMENT 2019-20 OUTLOOK The ACC has won seven national Five ACC teams are listed among ESPN’s championships in football, men’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2019-20: No. basketball, women’s basketball and 8 Louisville, No. 11 Florida State, No. 15 baseball since 2015. That is the most of NC State, No. 20 Notre Dame and No. 22 any conference, and the ACC is the only Miami. league to win each of those four titles over that stretch. The ACC boasts four coaches who rank in the top 20 of winningest active The ACC has had at least one Final Four coaches by percentage, the most of team in five of the past six seasons and any conference – No 5 Notre Dame’s a team has advanced to the title game Muffet McGraw (.770), No. 6 Louisville’s each time in as many years. Jeff Walz (.768), No. 10 NC State’s Wes Moore (.755) and No. 18 Duke’s Joanne ACC member institutions have won P. McCallie (.721). three NCAA Championships and made 24 trips to the Final Four. Seven different The ACC welcomes two new head institutions have represented the ACC coaches to the league in 2019-20 – in the Women’s Final Four (current Georgia Tech’s Nell Fortner and North membership). Carolina’s Courtney Banghart. Since the 2015 NCAA Tournament, the Five All-ACC performers return from ACC owns the most tournament wins a season ago – Duke’s Hailey Gorecki (69) of any conference. (first team), Florida State’s Kiah Gillespie (first team), Miami’s Beatrice Led by ACC Champion Notre Dame, a Mompremier (first team), Syracuse’s record-tying eight league teams were Tiana Mangakahia (first team) and selected to the 64-team 2019 NCAA Clemson’s Kobi Thornton (second Women’s Basketball Championship field. team). The eight teams selected to the 2019 tournament matched a league record The ACC has five of the top 20 freshman (2014, 2015 and 2018), and were the classes as ranked by ESPN Hoopgurlz most of any conference. It was also the this season – No. 8 NC State, No. 11 Notre fifth time in the last six years at least Dame, No. 13 Duke, No. 15 Louisville and seven ACC teams earned berths in the No. 16 Florida State. Big Dance, and the 12th time in the last 15 years at least six teams were selected. With Louisville and Notre Dame both ACC & THE WNBA earning No. 1 seeds in last year’s NCAA ACC member schools have produced Tournament, the ACC has had at least 146 WNBA draft picks, including an ACC one No. 1 seed in each of past six record 13 players selected in the 2019 tournaments and 20 times overall. The WNBA Draft. ACC has had multiple No. 1 seeds in six tournaments (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, The ACC has had at least one player 2018, 2019). selected in the first round in each of the last 13 drafts, and current membership The ACC ended the 2019 season with accounts for 52 first-round picks. the No. 1 RPI in the nation. Six ACC teams Four No. 1 WNBA Draft picks have come ranked among the top 25 of the RPI (the from current ACC schools - Lindsey most of any league). The six teams were Harding, Duke - 2007; Angel McCoughtry, Notre Dame (2), Louisville (5), NC State Louisville - 2009; Jewell Loyd, Notre (9), Syracuse (11), Florida State (21) and Dame – 2015 and Jackie Young, Notre Miami (25). Dame – 2019. 2019-20 ACC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TALKING POINTS TALKING BASKETBALL WOMEN’S ACC2019-20 2019-20 ACC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TALKING POINTS TALKING BASKETBALL WOMEN’S ACC2019-20 THE ACC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT ACC HEAD COACHES AND USA BASKETBALL The 2020 ACC Women’s Basketball Katie Meier (Miami) was the 2018 FIBA Tournament will mark the 43rd edition U19 World Championship head coach of the longest running conference and earned USA Basketball Coach of the women’s basketball championship in Year in 2013. the nation. The 2020 ACC Women’s Basketball Sue Semrau (Florida State) served Tournament will be held March 4-8 at as the Women’s Basketball Coaches the Greensboro Coliseum for the 20th Association from 2013-15. time in the last 21 years. The Coliseum, with assistance from the Greensboro Sports Foundation, Jeff Walz (Louisville) has been involved Greensboro Sports Commission and with USA Basketball in numerous Convention and Visitors Bureau, is set roles, including 2019 FIBA U19 World to play host to the tournament through Championship Head Coach, 2018 U.S. U18 2023. Women’s National Team Head Coach; 2018 FIBA Americas U18 Champion; 2017 U.S. U23 Women’s National Team Head ACC AND THE NAISMITH MEMORIAL AND WOMEN’S Coach; 2014 U.S. U18 Women’s National BASKETBALL HALLS OF FAME Team Assistant Coach and FIBA Americas U18 Champion; 2015 U.S. U19 Women’s Virginia head coach Tina Thompson was National Team Assistant Coach and FIBA enshrined in the Naismith Memorial U19 World Champion. Basketball Hall of Fame on Sept. 7, 2018. Overall, five members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame have ACADEMICS ACC women’s basketball ties: Kay Yow The ACC continues to lead the way (NC State; coach), Sylvia Hatchell (North academically by almost any measure Carolina; coach), Muffet McGraw (Notre among peer conferences: Dame; coach), Dawn Staley (Virginia; For the 13th consecutive year, the ACC student-athlete), Tina Thompson had the best average ranking among (Virginia; student-athlete/WNBA player). FBS conferences in the US News & World The ACC boasts two active Hall of Fame Report ‘Best Colleges.’ Coaches – Notre Dame’s Muffet McGraw ACC institutions top the rankings among (Naismith and Women’s Basketball) and their peer conferences with an average Virginia’s Tina Thompson (Naismith and graduation rate of 91 percent in last Women’s Basketball). fall’s release. ACC Women’s Basketball ranks second with 11 of its 15 teams earning a GSR above the Division I average. 2018 marked the 11th-straight year that the ACC has had at least four women’s basketball programs score 100, making it the only peer conference to do so. Five ACC teams – Florida State, Pitt, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest – hit the century mark in the latest report. #ACCTourney • @ACCMBB.