1979 ACC men's basketball tournament

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{{Infobox NCAA Basketball Conference tournament

| Year = 1979

| Conference = ACC

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| Gender = Men's

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| Teams = 7

| Arena = Greensboro Coliseum

| City = Greensboro, North Carolina

| Champions = North Carolina

| TitleCount = 8th

| Coach = Dean Smith

| CoachCount = 7th

| MVP = Dudley Bradley

| MVPTeam = North Carolina

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| Television = The C.D. Chesley Company

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{{1978–79 ACC men's basketball standings}}

The 1979 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament was held in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Greensboro Coliseum from March 1–3. North Carolina defeated Duke, 71–63, to win the championship.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/winston-salem-journal-carolina-tops-duke/158348793/|title=Carolina Tops Duke 71-63 To Win ACC Tournament|first=Lenox|last=Rawlings|work=Winston-Salem Journal|date=March 4, 1979|access-date=November 3, 2024|page=45|via=Newspapers.com}} Dudley Bradley of North Carolina was named the tournament MVP.

With the exception of the 1991 tournament, when {{cbb link|year=1990|team=Maryland Terrapins|title=Maryland}} was ineligible to participate due to NCAA sanctions, the 1979 event was the final ACC Tournament scheduled as a seven-team event and the final time the top seed received an automatic bye into the semifinals.