The ACC Championship Game will take place on Saturday night and will feature two in-state rivals when the 10^th-seed NC State Wolfpack face off against the 1^st-seed North Carolina Tar Heels in Washington, District of Columbia at the Capital One Arena with the game scheduled to start at 8:30 PM ET and will air on ESPN.

There will be a lot of teams on the bubble for the NCAA Tournament tuning in for this game as the ACC Conference Tournament Championship game will feature a team that finished in 10^th place in the conference with a conference record of 9-11. The Wolfpack needed a miracle on Friday night to force overtime in their ACC Semifinal against the Virginia Cavaliers nailing a 3-point shot at the buzzer to tie the game against Virginia before winning the game in overtime by a score of 73-65. 

The Wolfpack started their tournament in the 1^st round on Tuesday and have won four games in a row to advance to the ACC Conference Tournament Championship with wins over the Louisville Cardinals by a score of 94-85 in the 1^st round, the Syracuse Orange in the 2^nd round by a score of 83-65, the Duke Blue Devils in the Quarterfinals by a score of 74-69, and the Virginia Cavaliers in the Semifinals. Not many expected the Wolfpack to reach the ACC Championship game after finishing the regular season on a four-game losing streak and NC State entered the ACC tournament at +6000 to win the championship. However, NC State lost both games against North Carolina this season with a loss in game one at home by a score of 54-67 and a loss in game two on the road by a score of 70-79. 

The Wolfpack will look to avenge those two losses and earn the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament when they face the North Carolina Tar Heels in the ACC Championship game.

The North Carolina Tar Heels have played their way into being one of the 1 seeds in the NCAA Tournament after finishing the regular season as the ACC champion and advancing to the ACC Championship game on Saturday night even with a loss the Tar Heels may already have a 1 seed locked up with Tennessee and Arizona losing in their conference tournaments in blowouts. 

The Tar Heels trailed by 2 points at halftime of their ACC Semifinal game against the Pittsburgh Panthers, however, North Carolina led the majority of the 2^nd half after going on an 8-0 run with 15:06 left in the game to take a 48-42 lead and never trailed the game following the run. North Carolina advanced to the ACC Championship game with wins against the Florida State Seminoles in the ACC Quarterfinals by a score of 92-67 and the Pittsburgh Panthers in the ACC Semifinals by a score of 72-65 while having been one of the hottest teams in college basketball as they are on an eight-game winning streak entering the ACC Championship game against the NC State Wolfpack. The Tar Heels swept the Wolfpack in the regular season winning both games by an average margin of 11 points per game. 

The North Carolina Tar Heels have not won the ACC Tournament since the 2015-16 college basketball season but will look to win the ACC Conference Tournament on Saturday night when they square off against the NC State Wolfpack in the championship game.

WagerWeb has the North Carolina Tar Heels listed as 6-point favorites against the NC State Wolfpack in the ACC Championship game on Saturday night. North Carolina swept the regular season meetings against the NC State Wolfpack while both teams covered the spread on the road.

North Carolina will be looking to win its first ACC Tournament since the 2015-16 college basketball season and swept the NC State Wolfpack during the regular season. The Wolfpack covered the spread in the most recent game in the series as a 10.5-point road underdog and has covered the spread in three of their four games in the ACC tournament while the Tar Heels are 1-1 ATS in the conference tournament. Take the points with the NC State Wolfpack when they face the North Carolina Tar Heels in the ACC Championship game on Saturday night.