ACC Basketball Power Rankings: Who finished the 2023-24 season No. 1?

The 2023-24 men's college basketball season is over and what a season it was in the ACC. In the final season before SMU, Stanford and California join the conference, North Carolina captured the regular season title and they were the clear-cut favorite and top team all season long, beating rival Duke twice who finished in second.

Things changed, however, once the ACC Tournament began where North Carolina State won five games in five days to win the tourney in Washington, D.C., and claim the automatic NCAA Tournament berth. It didn't stop there for the Wolfpack. They carried that momentum into the NCAA Tournament, and reached the Final Four, before falling to Purdue Saturday night. What a ride they took their fans on for a month, beating nearly everyone who got in their way.

They beat Louisville, Syracuse, Virginia, Duke, and North Carolina in five days in the ACC Tournament, which was an amazing feat in itself. Then in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, they once again took down Duke in the West Regional Final.

Now that the dust has settled on the season, here are th e final ACC Men's Basketball Power Rankings for the 2023-24 season.

These three teams have nowhere to go but up. Louisville ended the Kenny Payne era and Miami finished the season losing their last 10 games and starting a roster overhaul with the transfer portal, adding Lynn Kidd from Virginia Tech. Damon Stoudamire now has an opportunity to build his roster at Georgia Tech. We'll see.

Notre Dame made strides under Micah Shrewsberry toward the end of the season and will only get better moving forward. Boston College had an impressive win over Providence in the NIT and Virginia Tech has had several players enter the transfer portal since losing in the NIT to Ohio State. Mike Young has a lot of transfer portal work to do. Florida State beat the Hokies in the first round of the ACC Tournament but was bounced by UNC in the quarterfinals and they too have portal work to do this offseason.

Syracuse was a disappointing one and done in the ACC Tournament, while Wake Forest and Pittsburgh were left on the outside looking in for the 68-team NCAA Tournament field, instead, the committee decided to take Virginia. What a mistake that turned out to be.

All four of these teams reached the Sweet 16, which was impressive for a conference that was thought of as just a two-bid league. Go figure. NC State lasted the longest of these four getting to Phoenix but falling short. It's hard to argue that despite beating North Carolina in the ACC Tournament Championship game, NC State had a better season than the Tar Heels, who finished the season where they spent most of it, at the top.