The Pitt Panthers will play the Notre Dame Fighting Irish to kick off the ACC tournament this coming Tuesday.
Tip-off will be at 2pm Eastern Time at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, NC. It will be televised by the ACC Network.
The Panthers enter the tournament as the 13th seed in the conference, seeded only ahead of California (14) and Syracuse (15). Miami (Fla), Boston College, and NC State did not make the tournament.
Pittsburgh finished the year with a 17-14 overall record and an 8-12 mark in the ACC. They finished with the same conference record as Virginia, Virginia Tech, Florida State, and Notre Dame.
Because of tiebreakers, the Panthers are seeded behind each other 8-12 squad. Virginia, seeded ninth, is the only one of the 8-12 teams to get a first-round bye.
Here is the full bracket for the 2025 ACC men's basketball tournament.
2025 ACC men's basketball tournament bracket. Credit: NCAA.com
Pitt's 93-67 victory against Boston College on Saturday snapped the team's four-game losing streak. The first of those defeats was a 76-72 loss at Notre Dame on February 22. Since the start of 2025, Pitt is just 6-13 and have a 3-8 record since February 1.
Notre Dame enters the ACC tournament with a 14-17 overall record and 8-12 in the conference. The Fighting Irish have won their last two, including a 112-110 overtime win over Cal on Saturday.
Other opening round ACC games are Virginia Tech vs. Cal and Florida State vs. Syracuse. The winner of Pitt-Notre Dame will face the fifth-seeded North Carolina Tar Heels on Wednesday. Winner of that game will play the fourth-seeded Wake Forest Demon Deacons on Thursday.
Last year, the Panthers won their opening round ACC game against Wake Forest before losing to North Carolina in the next round. This year, it will almost certainly take an improbable run to win the ACC championship for the Panthers to make the NCAA tournament.
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This story was originally published March 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM.