The Atlantic Coast Conference will hold five consecutive men's basketball tournaments in North Carolina starting in 2025, while the women's tournament, long based in Greensboro, the city where the league was founded, will split time between there and Charlotte.
The ACC on Thursday announced future championship sites in 14 sports, ahead of next season's westward expansion that will add California and Stanford of the Pac-12, as well as SMU of the American Athletic Conference. However, in a year in which the league moved its headquarters from Greensboro to downtown Charlotte, the ACC unveiled 42 future championship events, including those marquee basketball tournaments, for its home state.
At a news conference in Charlotte, Commissioner Jim Phillips estimated the events could have an economic impact of more than $400 million.
The men's basketball tournament, soon to be held in Washington, D.C. in March, will be held in Charlotte in 2025, 2026 and 2028, while Greensboro will host it in 2027 and 2029. That five-year run in North Carolina would be The largest one. in the state since having 11 in a row in Charlotte and Greensboro from 1990-2000.
Greensboro has hosted the men's tournament a league-most 29 times, while Charlotte is tied for second with 13.
That would comply with a state budget provision tied to getting $15 million in state funds with the move of its headquarters last year. That provision required the league to hold four state men's basketball tournaments among numerous championships for the 2032-33 academic year.
The women's tournament has been held in Greensboro every year but one since 2000, and will host it again next month. The tournament will return in 2025 before heading to Charlotte in 2027, with plans for 2026 to be determined later.
The league's announcements also included that baseball will bounce between Charlotte and Durham through 2029, as will gymnastics, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's tennis , women's golf and rowing.
The football championship game is scheduled for Charlotte until 2030.
