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2000 ACC men's basketball tournament

college basketball tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4597111 ↗
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The 2000 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament took place from March 9 to 12 in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the second Charlotte Coliseum. Duke won the tournament for the second year in a row, defeating Maryland in the championship game. Jason Williams of Duke was the tournament MVP.

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Television

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References

External links

"2008–09 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Media Guide". Atlantic Coast Conference. 2008. p. 108. Archived from the original on January 1, 2011. Retrieved April 11, 2020.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2008, 2011, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with men's, basketball and tournament providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2000 ACC men's basketball tournament” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.