The 2016 Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Atlantic Coast Conference held March 2–6, 2016, in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Greensboro Coliseum. Notre Dame won their third straight ACC tournament title to earn an automatic trip to the NCAA women's tournament.
Seeding Tournament seeds are determined by teams' regular season conference record, with tiebreakers determined by ACC tiebreaking rules. 2016 ACC women's basketball tournament seeds and results Seed School Conf. Over. Tiebreaker1Notre Dame16–028–12Louisville15–124–63Syracuse13–323–61–0 vs. FSU4Florida State13–324–60–1 vs. SYR5Miami (FL)10–622–71–0 vs. NCST6NC State10–619–100–1 vs. MIA7Georgia Tech8–818–111–0 vs. DUKE8Duke8–819–110–1 vs. GT9Virginia6–1017–131–0 vs. WF10Wake Forest6–1015–140–1 vs. UVA11Virginia Tech5–1117–1212Pittsburgh4–1212–171–0 vs. UNC13North Carolina4–1214–170–1 vs. PITT14Boston College2–1414–1515Clemson0–164–25‡ – 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.
Schedule SessionGameTime*Matchup#TelevisionAttendance First round – Wednesday, March 2 1 1 1:00 pm #13 North Carolina vs #12 Pittsburgh ACCRSN 1,123 2 3:30 pm #15 Clemson vs #10 Wake Forest 3 6:30 pm #14 Boston College vs #11 Virginia Tech Second round – Thursday, March 3 2 4 11:00 am #12 Pittsburgh vs #5 Miami (FL) ACCRSN 2,114 5 2:00 pm #9 Virginia vs #8 Duke 3 6 6:00 pm #10 Wake Forest vs #7 Georgia Tech 3,374 7 8:00 pm #14 Boston College vs #6 NC State Quarterfinals – Friday, March 4 4 8 11:00 am #5 Miami (FL) vs #4 Florida State ACCRSN 3,148 9 2:00 pm #8 Duke vs #1 Notre Dame 5 10 6:00 pm #7 Georgia Tech vs #2 Louisville 5,034 11 8:00 pm #6 NC State vs #3 Syracuse Semifinals – Saturday, March 5 6 12 12:00 pm #5 Miami (FL) vs #1 Notre Dame ESPNU 5,871 13 2:30 pm #3 Syracuse vs. #2 Louisville Championship Game – Sunday, March 6 7 14 12:30 pm #1 Notre Dame vs #3 Syracuse ESPN 5,017 *Game times in ET. #-Rankings denote tournament seed.
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Awards and honors
See also 2016 ACC men's basketball tournament
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