The 2022–23 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2022, followed by the start of the 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. Conference play began in December 2022 and concluded March 7–11, 2023, with the 2023 ACC men's basketball tournament at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina. This was the 69th season of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball.
Head coaches
Coaching changes
Mike Krzyzewski announced his retirement prior to the 2021–22 season, which he stated would be his final season. Kryzewski was head coach of Duke for forty-two years. After the season concluded, Jon Scheyer became the new head coach at Duke. Chris Mack was fired as head coach of Louisville on January 26, 2022. In March of 2022 it was announced that Kenny Payne had been hired as the new head coach.
Coaches
Notes: Year at school includes 2022–23 season. Overall and ACC records are from the time at current school and are through the end of the 2021–22 season. NCAA tournament appearances are from the time at current school only. NCAA Final Fours and championship include time at other schools
Preseason
Recruiting classes
Notes: Rankings are up to date as of October 18, 2022. NR stands for not ranked.
Preseason watchlists
Preseason polls
ACC Preseason Media poll
The preseason poll and Preseason All-ACC Teams were released on October 18, 2022.
Preseason poll
North Carolina – 1,504 (90) Duke – 1,339 (2) Virginia – 1,310 (6) Miami – 1,138 (2) Florida State – 1,064 Notre Dame – 971 Virginia Tech – 921 (1) Syracuse – 800 Wake Forest – 672 NC State – 548 Clemson – 528 Louisville – 477 Boston College – 368 Pittsburgh – 320 Georgia Tech – 260
First-place votes shown in parentheses.
Preseason All-ACC teams
ACC preseason player of the year
Armando Bacot – North Carolina (82) Isaiah Wong – Miami (5) Caleb Love – North Carolina (4) Jeremy Roach – Duke (3) PJ Hall – Clemson (2) R. J. Davis – North Carolina (2) Terquavion Smith – NC State (1) Hunter Cattoor – Virginia Tech (1) Dariq Whitehead – Duke (1)
ACC Preseason Freshman of the year
Dereck Lively II – Duke (57) Dariq Whitehead – Duke (25) Tyrese Proctor – Duke (5) Mark Mitchell – Duke (3) Tyler Nickel – North Carolina (2) Jalen Washington – North Carolina (2) JJ Starling – Notre Dame (2) Kyle Filipowski – Duke (2) Prince Aligbe – Boston College (1) Isaac McKneely – Virginia (1) Seth Trimble – North Carolina (1)
Early season tournaments
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Regular season
Rankings
Conference matrix
This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team played 20 conference games, including at least 1 against each opponent.
Player of the week
Throughout the conference regular season, the Atlantic Coast Conference offices named one or two Players of the week and one or two Rookies of the week.
Records against other conferences
2022–23 records against non-conference foes. Records shown for regular season only. Statistics through games played on February 17, 2023.
Postseason
ACC tournament
The 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference Basketball Tournament was held at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, from March 7 to 11, 2023.
* – Denotes overtime period
NCAA tournament
National Invitation tournament
Honors and awards
All-Americans
To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.
ACC Awards
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NBA draft
The ACC had five players selected in the 2023 NBA Draft.