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History of The ACC

On May 8, 1953, the Atlantic Coast Conference was formed at the Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, N.C. when seven schools (South Carolina, North Carolina, N.C. State, Wake Forest, Duke, Clemson and Maryland) decided to break apart from the Southern Conference. In December of that year, Virginia joined the group and the ACC became an 8-school conference.

As the late Roy Clogston, Athletic Director of N.C. State from 1948-69 noted, “Jim Tatum (Maryland), Rex Enright (South Carolina) and Eddie Cameron (Duke) were the ring leaders in forming this conference. I just went along for the ride.” On May 7, 1954 Jim Weaver, former A.D. of Wake Forest, was appointed the first Commissioner of the A.C.C.”

This secession came about largely because of the Southern Conference’s football policies. In 1951, Clemson and Maryland received bowl bids to the Gator and Sugar Bowls respectively but the college presidents of Southern vetoed any bowl participation. The two teams defied the ban and Miami beat Clemson 14-0 and Maryland beat Tennessee 28-13. While this friction factored in the decision to leave Southern, Clogston stated, “We thought we could form a conference with teams in our own class and the gates would improve. The Southern Conference was so big it was unwieldy and some of the teams wouldn’t draw.”

While football formed the impetus for forming the conference, basketball got the ACC Conference off and running. From the start, the ACC basketball tournament was a sold out spectacular that combined sports and social events. Most of the socials were segregated by sex until some of the women, led by Roy Clogston’s wife the late Ruby Clogston insisted that at least some of the socials include men and women.

Clogston recalls that in 1954, he asked the NC State athletic council to raise the price of tournament tickets from $9.50 to $14.50. He recounted at that meeting that one of those “two-by-four” guys said, ‘I don’t know why you want us to go out on a limb like that.’ Despite this professor’s gloomy prediction, the first ACC tournament was a sellout and turned over million dollars to the conference. To meet the seemingly impossible demand for tickets, the ACC pioneered televising tournament games first on a delayed basis and eventually televising the finals live.

And thus a sporting franchise was born.

Previous ACC Tournament Winners
Year	Winner	MVP
1954 ACC Tournament	NC State	Dickie Hemric (Wake Forest)
1955 ACC Tournament	NC State	Ron Shavlik (NC State)
1956 ACC Tournament	NC State	Vic Molodet (NC State)
1957 ACC Tournament	UNC	Lennie Rosenbluth (UNC)
1958 ACC Tournament	Maryland	Nick Davis (Maryland)
1959 ACC Tournament	NC State	Lou Pucillo (NC State)
1960 ACC Tournament	Duke	Doug Kistler (Duke)
1961 ACC Tournament	Wake Forest	Len Chappell (Wake Forest)
1962 ACC Tournament	Wake Forest	Len Chappell (Wake Forest)
1963 ACC Tournament	Duke	Art Heyman (Duke)
1964 ACC Tournament	Duke	Jeff Mullins (Duke)
1965 ACC Tournament	NC State	Larry Worsley (NC State)
1966 ACC Tournament	Duke	Steve Vacendak (Duke)
1967 ACC Tournament	UNC	Larry Miller (UNC)
1968 ACC Tournament	UNC	Larry Miller (UNC)
1969 ACC Tournament	UNC	Charlie Scott (UNC)
1970 ACC Tournament	NC State	Vann Williford (NC State)
1971 ACC Tournament	South Carolina	John Laroche (S. Carolina)*
1972 ACC Tournament	UNC	Bob McAdoo (UNC)
1973 ACC Tournament	NC State	Tommy Burleson (NC State)
1974 ACC Tournament	NC State	Tommy Burleson (NC State)
1975 ACC Tournament	UNC	Phil Ford (UNC)
1976 ACC Tournament	Virginia	Wally Walker (Virginia)
1977 ACC Tournament	UNC	John Kuester (UNC)
1978 ACC Tournament	Duke	Jim Spanarkel (Duke)
1979 ACC Tournament	UNC	Dudley Bradley (UNC)
1980 ACC Tournament	Duke	Albert King (Maryland)
1981 ACC Tournament	UNC	Sam Perkins (UNC)
1982 ACC Tournament	UNC	James Worthy (UNC)
1983 ACC Tournament	NC State	Sidney Lowe (NC State)
1984 ACC Tournament	Maryland	Len Bias (Maryland)
1985 ACC Tournament	Georgia Tech	Mark Price (Georgia Tech)
1986 ACC Tournament	Duke	Johnny Dawkins (Duke)
1987 ACC Tournament	NC State	Vinny Del Negro (NC State)
1988 ACC Tournament	Duke	Danny Ferry (Duke)
1989 ACC Tournament	UNC	J.R. Reid (UNC)
1990 ACC Tournament	Georgia Tech	Brian Oliver (Georgia Tech)
1991 ACC Tournament	UNC	Rick Fox (UNC)
1992 ACC Tournament	Duke	Christean Laettner (Duke)
1993 ACC Tournament	Georgia Tech	James Forrest (Georgia Tech)
1994 ACC Tournament	UNC	Jerry Stackhouse (UNC)
1995 ACC Tournament	Wake Forest	Randolph Childress (Wake Forest)
1996 ACC Tournament	Wake Forest	Tim Duncan (Wake Forest)
1997 ACC Tournament	UNC	Shammond Williams (UNC)
1998 ACC Tournament	UNC	Antawn Jamison (UNC)
1999 ACC Tournament	Duke	Elton Brand (Duke)
2000 ACC Tournament	Duke	Jason Williams (Duke)
2001 ACC Tournament	Duke	Shane Battier (Duke)
2002 ACC Tournament	Duke	Carlos Boozer (Duke)
2003 ACC Tournament	Duke	Daniel Ewing (Duke)
2004 ACC Tournament	Maryland	John Gilchrist (Maryland
2005 ACC Tournament	Duke	J.J. Redick (Duke)
2006 ACC Tournament	Duke	J.J. REdick (Duke)
2007 ACC Tournament	UNC	Brandan Wright
2008 ACC Tournament	UNC	Tyler Hansbrough (UNC)
2009 ACC Tournament	March 12-15, 2009
* Tie for MVP Honors - Lee Dedmon (UNC)

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