ACC Releases Women’s 2009-10 Basketball Schedule

Atlantic Coast Conference released the composite schedule for the upcoming 2009-10 ACC Women’s Basketball season.

2009 – 10 ACC WOMEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

Highlights of the upcoming basketball schedule include:

• 40 televised games, making up 78 television appearances, including a CBS telecast of North Carolina at defending national champion Connecticut on Jan. 9 to open the 2009-10 television package..
• Six ESPN2 games, highlighted by Maryland at Virginia on Jan. 11, Connecticut at Duke on Jan. 18, Miami at NC State on Feb. 14 for “Pink Frenzy” and Florida State at Maryland on Feb. 28.
• Five additional nationally televised games on Fox Sports Net and affiliates, including a rematch of the 2009 ACC overtime championship game and the 2006 NCAA national title game between Duke and Maryland on Jan. 24 and the classic in-state rivalry of Duke at North Carolina on Sunday, Feb. 28, which will conclude the 2009-10 regular season.
• 28 conference match-ups on the league’s regional sports networks, which include Comcast SportsNet, Fox Sports Net South, Fox Sports Net Florida, and New England Sports Network. The regional sports networks reach approximately 24 million households.
• Seven games of the 2010 ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament to be held March 4-7 at the Greensboro (N.C.) Coliseum – four on the league’s regional sports networks and three nationally on Fox Sports Net and affiliates. FSN will broadcast the ACC Tournament semifinal games and the 2010 ACC Championship game.
• A nationally televised hour-long preview show on Fox Sports Net and affiliates with a time and date yet to be determined.

The 2009-10 women’s basketball season tips off on Friday, Nov. 13 with season opener action including Georgia Tech hosting Winthrop in the first round of the Preseason Women’s NIT. Last year saw the Tar Heels win the school’s first-ever WNIT preseason crown with an 80-79 escape at then-ranked No. 2 Oklahoma.

This season will feature the third annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge, which matches 11 teams from each conference in head-to-head competition traditionally on the first Wednesday and Thursday after Thanksgiving, following the men’s ACC/Big Ten Challenge. The 2009 Challenge will open on Dec. 2, as Wake Forest hosts Illinois, Iowa welcomes Boston College, and Georgia Tech takes on Penn State.

The ACC’s league schedule is set to begin on Wednesday, Jan. 6, with Georgia Tech traveling to North Carolina.

ACC Releases Men’s 2009-10 Basketball Schedule

It’ HERE!    The 2009-10 Atlantic Coast Conference basketball schedule released is highlighted by 281 television appearances by the league’s 12 member schools, including 162 appearances on national television networks. This year’s schedule also includes 173 televised games involving ACC teams and marks the sixth-straight year the ACC has had more than 250 television appearances.

The Conference will provide an updated 2009-10 ACC schedule with additional television selections at a later date.

The 57th annual ACC Tournament is set for March 11-14, 2010, and marks the 22nd time that the four-day event will be held at the Greensboro Coliseum.

2009-10 ACC MEN’S BASKETBALL SCHEDULE

162 – ACC teams are scheduled to make 162 appearances on national television networks, including 118 appearances on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, 35 on Fox Sports Net, and seven on CBS.

24 – ACC teams are scheduled to play a total of 24 games against 22 non-conference opponents that earned NCAA Tournament berths in 2008-09.

19 – Fox Sports Net and affiliates will televise 19 Sunday afternoon and evening games on a national basis, starting with North Carolina hosting Nevada on November 29. 

11 – Headlining the league’s non-conference schedule is the 11th annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge pairing two of the nation’s premier conferences in a regular-season challenge series. Last year, the ACC won the Challenge for the 10th-straight time, winning six of the 11 games played. The ACC (.640) and the Big Ten (.613) are the two winningest conferences in NCAA Tournament history.