2022-23_Atlantic_Coast_Conference_women's_basketball_season

2022–23 Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball season

2022–23 Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball season

Sports season


The 2022–23 Atlantic Coast Conference women's basketball season began with practices in October 2022, followed by the start of the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season in November. Conference play started in November 2022 and concluded on February 26, 2023. After the regular season, the 2023 ACC women's basketball tournament was held at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC for the 23rd time in 24 years.[2]

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Notre Dame was the regular season champions with a 15–3 conference record. Virginia Tech won the ACC Tournament title over Louisville 75–67. The ACC had eight teams selected for the NCAA tournament, with Virginia Tech being the best performing, reaching the Final Four. The conference's overall record was 14–8 in the tournament. Three ACC teams participated in the WNIT. Two teams reached the Super 16 and their overall record was 5–3 in the tournament.

Head coaches

Coaching changes

  • On March 21, 2022, Sue Semrau announced her retirement after 24 seasons as head coach at Florida State.[3] She was succeeded by Seminoles associate head coach Brooke Wyckoff, who served as the interim head coach for the team during the 2020–21 season during Semrau's leave of absence.[4]
  • On March 26, 2022, Felisha Legette-Jack was announced as the head coach at Syracuse.[5] She took over from interim head coach Von Read.
  • On March 3, 2022 Virginia fired head coach Tina Thompson after four years as head coach and a 30–63 overall record.[6] On March 21, 2022, Virginia announced that Amaka Agugua-Hamilton would be the new head coach of the program.[7]
  • On May 11, 2022 Wake Forest fired head coach Jen Hoover after ten seasons.[8] Megan Gebbia was announced as the new head coach on May 26, 2022.[9]

Coaches

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Notes:

  • Year at school includes 2022–23 season.
  • Overall and ACC records are from time at current school and are through the end the 2021–22 season.
  • NCAA tournament appearances are from time at current school only.
  • NCAA Final Fours and Championship include time at other schools

Preseason

Preseason watch lists

Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

Lieberman[10] Drysdale[11] Miller[12] McClain[13] Leslie[14] Naismith[15]
Chrislyn Carr – Louisville
Haley Cavinder – Miami
Deja Kelly – North Carolina
Olivia Miles – Notre Dame
Dyaisha Fair – Syracuse
Celeste Taylor – Duke
Cameron Swartz – Georgia Tech
Hailey Van Lith – Louisville
Jakia Brown-Turner – NC State
Ashley Owusu – Virginia Tech
Elizabeth Balogun – Duke
Morgan Jones – Louisville
Mimi Collins – NC State
Alyssa Ustby – North Carolina
Taylor Soule – Virginia Tech
Olivia Cochran – Louisville
Maddy Westbeld – Notre Dame
Sam Brunelle – Virginia
Kennedy Brown – Duke
Josie Williams – Louisville
Lauren Ebo – Notre Dame
Elizabeth Kitley – Virginia Tech
Morgan Jones – Louisville
Hailey Van Lith – Louisville
Deja Kelly – North Carolina
Alyssa Ustby – North Carolina
Jakia Brown-Turner – NC State
Diamond Johnson– NC State
Olivia Miles – Notre Dame
Elizabeth Kitley – Virginia Tech
Ashley Owusu – Virginia Tech

ACC Women's Basketball Tip-off

The Preseason Media Poll and Preseason All-ACC teams were released after a tipoff event held at the Westin in Charlotte, North Carolina on October 11, 2022.[16]

At the media day, both the head coaches and the Blue Ribbon Panel predicted that Louisville would be league champion. In prior seasons, the league released a poll of head coaches and a Blue Ribbon Panel poll, but this year those polls were combined. The votes from the league's head coaches counted twice in the combined poll.[17]

ACC Preseason poll

  1. Louisville – 1,068 (31)
  2. Virginia Tech – 984 (17)
  3. NC State – 963 (8)
  4. Notre Dame – 942 (4)
  5. North Carolina – 895
  6. Miami – 674
  7. Duke – 627
  8. Georgia Tech – 623
  9. Florida State – 553
  10. Syracuse – 379
  11. Virginia – 303
  12. Clemson – 275
  13. Boston College – 271
  14. Wake Forest – 256
  15. Pittsburgh – 187

First-place votes shown in parentheses.

Preseason All-ACC Team

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ACC Preseason Player of the Year shown in Bold.
First-place votes shown in parentheses.

Newcomer Watchlist

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Regular season

Records against other conferences

2022–23 records against non-conference foes as of (December 22, 2022):

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Record against ranked non-conference opponents

This is a list of games against ranked opponents only (rankings from the AP Poll):

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Team rankings are reflective of AP poll when the game was played, not current or final ranking

† denotes game was played on neutral site

Rankings

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Note: The Coaches Poll releases a final poll after the NCAA tournament, but the AP Poll does not release a poll at this time.

Conference Matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play. Each team played 18 conference games, and at least 1 against each opponent.[18]

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Player of the week

Throughout the conference regular season, the Atlantic Coast Conference offices named a Player(s) of the week and a Rookie(s) of the week.

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Postseason

ACC Tournament

NCAA tournament

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National Invitation Tournament

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Honors and awards

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ACC Awards

The ACC announced its end of season awards on February 28, 2023 ahead of the start of the ACC tournament.[35][36]

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WNBA draft

The ACC had three players selected in the 2023 WNBA draft. This was the first time since the 2005 WNBA draft than an ACC player was not selected in the first round, breaking a streak of seventeen straight years with a first round selection.[37][38]

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References

  1. "2022–23 ACC Women's Basketball Individual Statistics" (PDF). theacc.com. Atlantic Coast Conference. February 26, 2023. p. 1. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  2. "ACC Announces Championship Dates and Sites for 2022-23". theacc.com. Atlantic Coast Conference. May 19, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  3. Voepel, Mechelle (March 21, 2022). "Florida State women's basketball coach Sue Semrau retiring after 24 seasons with Seminoles". ESPN.com. Retrieved March 22, 2022.
  4. Stone, Stephen (March 28, 2022). "BROOKE WYCKOFF NAMED FLORIDA STATE WOMEN'S BASKETBALL'S NINTH HEAD COACH" (Press release). Florida State Seminoles. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  5. Jackson, Wilton (March 26, 2022). "Syracuse Hires Program Legend As New Women's Basketball Coach". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
  6. "Virginia Announces Head Women's Basketball Coaching Change". virginiasports.com. University of Virginia. March 3, 2022.
  7. "2023 Jersey Mike's Naismith Trophy Women's Watch List Released". naismithtrophy.com. Atlanta Tipoff Club. November 4, 2022. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
  8. "2022 ACC Basketball Tipoff Attendees Announced". theacc.com. Atlantic Coast Conference. October 5, 2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
  9. "ACC Unveils 2022-23 Women's Basketball Conference Schedule". theacc.com. Atlantic Coast Conference. September 14, 2022. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
  10. "22_23_WBBrelease" (PDF). theacc.com. Atlantic Coast Conference. p. 4. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
  11. "Boston College Sweeps ACC Women's Basketball Weekly Honors". theacc.com. Atlantic Coast Conference. January 9, 2023. Retrieved January 10, 2023.
  12. "ACC Women's Basketball Announces 2022-23 Award Winners". theacc.com. The Atlantic Coast Conference. February 28, 2023. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  13. "Seven ACC Student-Athletes Selected in 2022 WNBA Draft". theacc.com. Atlantic Coast Conference. April 11, 2022. Retrieved April 12, 2022.
  14. "Three ACC Student-Athletes Selected in 2023 WNBA Draft". theacc.com. Atlantic Coast Conference. April 10, 2023. Retrieved April 11, 2023.

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