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A Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is one of a oldest collegiate athletic leagues in the United States. Based around 1953, one month prior to a formation of the Ivy League, the ACC's dozen member universities compete in twenty sports in the NCAA's Division I. Spanning a Eastern Seaboard, from New England to the Everglades, its member institutions are in the Atlantic coastal states of Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Members
Boston College, located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Clemson University, located in Clemson, South Carolina
Duke University, located in Durham, North Carolina
Florida State University, located in Tallahassee, Florida
Georgia Tech, located in Atlanta, Georgia
University of Maryland, located in College Park, Maryland
University of Miami, located in Coral Gables, Florida
University of North Carolina, located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina
North Carolina State University, located in Raleigh, North Carolina
University of Virginia, located in Charlottesville, Virginia
Virginia Tech, located in Blacksburg, Virginia
Wake Forest University, located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Image:Bc-lg.png|Boston College
Image:Paw800.jpg|Clemson
Image:Duke logotype.gif|Duke
Image:Fsu-lg.png|Florida State
Image:Geot-lg.png|Georgia Tech
Image:Md-lg.png|Maryland
Image:UMiamiLogo.gif|Miami
Image:Unc-lg.png|North Carolina
Image:Ncst-lg.png|NC State
Image:V-sabres.gif|Virginia
Image:Vt-lg.png|Virginia Tech
Image:Wake-lg.png|Wake Forest
History
Charter members of the ACC were Clemson, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, and Wake Forest. Within early December, 1953, officials convened in Greensboro, North Carolina and agreed to invite Virginia. A septenary ACC charter members were originally aligned by having a Southern Conference. Fallowing drafting a placed of bye law for a creation of the recently league, it formally withdrew from either the Southern Conference at the Spring Meeting on the morning of May 8, 1953. A bye law were ratified & a ACC officially inherit being in June 14, 1953. It left a Southern Conference primarily due to the league's ban in postseason play.
Inside 1971, for the first & lone period, the ACC misused a member in the University of South Carolina, now the member of the Southeastern Conference. A ACC operated using 7 members until a addition of previous Southeastern Conference member Georgia Tech, on April 3, 1978. A addition of Florida State on July 1, 1991, brought the sum to nine. Around 2003's period of conference alignment, a ACC added triad further members: Miami and Virginia Tech joined on July 1, 2004, and Boston College joined on July 1, 2005 as the league's 12th member.
Sports
Member universities compete in the as a result sports:
Baseball
Men's Basketball
Women's Basketball
Cross Country
Field Hockey
Football
Men's Golf
Women's Golf
Men's Lacrosse
Women's Lacrosse
Rowing
Men's Soccer
Women's Soccer
Softball
Swimming & Diving
Men's Tennis
Women's Tennis
Track & Field
Volleyball
Wrestling
Basketball
A ACC is considered one of a right men's college basketball conferences in the united states. For instance, when you took February 2004, six teams were ranked in the top Twenty-five at in one case. One of a ungraded teams, Maryland, was a National Champion within 2002 (and a ACC Champion inside March 2004) and Clemson, world health organization was graded survive in the ACC, experienced the nature and severity of schedule ranked #1 in the united states. A addition of Miami & Virginia Tech was required to produce a Atlantic Coast Conference further competitory within virtually all sports, especially football. Each schools' men's basketball computer software, especially Virginia Tech's, were typically esteem weaker than a rest of a ACC; notwithstanding, the Hokies & Hurricanes finished for & sixth (severally) inside their initiatory year of ACC basketball in 2004, quieting their critics as each standard NIT bids.
For 5 weeks beginning in November 29, 2004, the ACC experienced the record-tying 7 teams ranked in the AP men's basketball poll. A effort got been accomplished antecedently per conference prior to around [http://www.sportsstats.com/AP/Ranking/19971208.html December 1997], & per Big Ten in January 1999, but never for such the duration.
Football
When of 2005, the ACC might run divisional play around football. Each section leaders might compete within the playoff game at ALLTEL Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida to determine the ACC championship. This section structure leads to every team swimming a below games:
Five games inside its section (1 against every opponent)
One game against the "permanent rival" from either a more division
Two rotating games against teams in the more division
inside a table beneath, a teams come employed in columns by section, & horizontally paired by lasting cross-divisional contention (non necessarily the school's nearest traditional challenger).
Soccer
A second sport that has seen dominance per Atlantic Coast Conference is association football. Around men's association football, a ACC has won 9 national championships it used to be that Twenty seasons, 5 of the two per University of Virginia (1989, 1991–1994). 4 others stand came from either Clemson University (1984, 1987), Duke University (1986), and a University of North Carolina (2001).
Since women's association football became the collegial sport inside 1982, the conference has produced the national powerhouse that non several sports in the NCAA use seen. A University of N Carolina, within a Xxiii years since the NCAA number 1 crowned its champion in 1982, has won 15 of the national titles (1982-1984, 1986-1994, 1996-1997 and 2003).
Lacrosse
However an additional sport that a conference is known for excelling within is men's & women's lacrosse. Since 1971, when a number one men's national champion was determined per NCAA, the ACC hwhen won 7 national championships (as of 2005). A University of North Carolina has won four national championships (1981, 1982, 1986, and 1991), the University of Virginia has won three (1972, 1999, and 2003), and a University of Maryland has won one (1973). Women's Lacrosse, a sport where the national champion has merely been determined since 1982, has seen much dominance per ACC, specifically per University of Maryland. All told, a ACC has won 12 women's national championships. A University of Maryland accounts for nine of victims championships (1986, 1992, 1995-2001), and a University of Virginia won a more ternary (1991, 1993, and 2004).
Stadia
Rivalries
When using virtually all ACC traditions, a conference's classic competition began on the (men's) basketball court. Prior to the 2003 expansion, a ACC was entity to maintain a fully home-and-home double round-robin basketball schedule, meaning two team played both more team both home & away each year. Coupled using a conference's geographic compactness (especially prior to Floridthe State joined within 1991), this enhanced conference cohesiveness & built a heavy, interlinking web of competition, when from both one school may typically locate something historical to exist as upset by owning each more school astir. Occasionally competition were, naturally, stronger than others — notably victims among a foursome "Tobacco Road" schools located in North Carolina.
By having a exception of Florida State-Miami, lesser-known come a ACC's football competition. Sustaining a recent expansion, intra-state competition within Florida and Virginia that have universally been additional important inside football than basketball come okay, under a conference banner. This gives the children added meaning, when these games have had other directly impact in postseason bowl game invitations.
A select few of the ACC's classic contention include:
Duke-Maryland: Traditionally a basketball competition; reached heightened status in the early 2000s when two computer program were often mentioned as national championship favorites
Duke-North Carolina: This basketball rivalry is considered by fans & analysts to exist as one of a biggest in the united states, these schools besides play for the "Victory Bell" around football
Florida State-Miami: Known for it's "Wide Right" outcomes
N.C. State-Clemson: football's "Textile Bowl"
North Carolina-N.C. State
Virginia-Georgia Tech: football's "41-38"
Virginia-Maryland: border rivalry;
Virginia-North Carolina: football's "Oldest Rivalry in the South"
Virginia-Virginia Tech: football's Commonwealth Cup
Additional-conference competition involving ACC members include:
Boston College and Notre Dame (Independent): football's "Holy War"
Clemson and South Carolina (of the SEC)
Georgia Tech and Georgia (SEC)
Georgia Tech and Auburn (SEC)
Florida State and Florida (SEC)
Maryland and Penn State (Big Ten)
Maryland and West Virginia (Big East): football; yearn todays continuous non-conference series for both schools, when it keep close at hand played both more each season since 1980.
Virginia Tech and West Virginia (Big East)
Additionally, Maryland has an extended-held bitingly contention around men's lacrosse using Johns Hopkins.
Since a 1999-2000 year, ACC teams stand played Large Ten teams in the annual ACC - Big Ten Challenge men's basketball tournament; the ACC has "won" this tournament each year since its origwithin (ACC teams own won the majority of the games played in each year).
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