Where is the acc tournament played
ACC tournament canceled, Florida State named champions & given automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament
and unknown enemy worldwide with the
coronavirus we don't know entirely what
that means for the future we have been
in constant deliberations and
discussions within the Atlantic Coast
Conference with our presidents and our
athletics directors for weeks we've also
been in numerous conversations with
appropriate health officials through
this trying to make the right decisions
for our team's our our students you the
fans to do what's right as we move
forward after a recent discussion of
about 15 minutes ago with our presidents
and athletics directors again the league
has made a decision to end this year's
Atlantic Coast Conference men's
basketball tournament as of today it's
tough to say those words for these young
men that are on the floor that would be
continuing to play it's tough to say
those words for you fans that are in the
stands for the media covering this great
event but we believe that it's the right
decision to make at this particular
point in time you can ask why was it not
made sooner it's a fair question the
answer is that it's an extraordinarily
fluid situation with information coming
to us that changes I used to say you can
buy by the week then I said by the day
and now I say by the hour so hopefully
we're doing the right thing in the
context of this great country of ours
and in the context of intercollegiate
sports
so thank you for your understanding
therefore and I appreciate the class of
the Clemson Tigers being on the floor
right now because they
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when I spoke with Coach Brownell his
immediate reaction was we want to be on
the floor wouldn't expect anything less
because he's a class person and he's
part of the class University and the
class program so Brad and the Clemson
Tigers thank you
that we usually give two trophies during
this basketball season one goes to the
regular season champion one goes to the
tournament champion and a hue to the
NCAA Florida State University has had an
absolutely tremendous basketball season
to this point if there is an NCAA
tournament and we hope there will be I
can't assure you that there will be the
Florida State Seminoles will be the
Atlantic Coast Conference aqu and will
represent this great conference in every
conceivable positive way because of the
leadership at the end of that bench
Leonard Hamilton the ACC this year is a
ACC coach of the year for the third time
I believe Leonard if that's correct and
we appreciate you guys the year that
you've had and hopefully you'll have the
opportunity to represent the Atlantic
Coast Conference is our champion going
forward and we've got a trophy here
somewhere I'm not strong enough to hold
a microphone and a trophy so guys take
later come on up here the Florida State
Seminoles Atlantic Coast Conference
men's basketball champions 2020 for the
Atlantic Coast Conference
congratulations
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