Every ACC league game will be televised in 2011-12

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Every ACC league game will be televised in 2011-12

Aug 24, 2011

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Greensboro, N.C. — An all-time high 189 national television appearances highlight the 2011-12 Atlantic Coast Conference basketball schedule released Wednesday by Commissioner John Swofford. In addition, each of the league’s 96 conference games will be broadcast live.

In the first year of a new 12-year agreement with ESPN, all of the league’s conference games schedule will be carried by either ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN3.com, the ACC Network or the ACC Regional Sports Networks (RSN). All conference games carried by the ACC Network, or the Regional Sports Network (RSN), will also be broadcast live nationally on ESPN3.com, as will selected games by ESPN.

The first season of the NC State Mark Gottfried era will feature 19 home games, including three to be played at historic Reynolds Coliseum. NC State will open its 2010-11 campaign against UNC Asheville on Nov. 13 at the RBC Center, in the first of four games the Wolfpack will play in the Legends Classic. After hosting Princeton on Nov. 16, the Pack will conclude action in the Legends Classic against Vanderbilt and then either Oregon State or Texas at the IZOD Center in East Rutherford, N.J., the weekend of Nov. 19-21.

“Our scheduling philosophy will also be to play opponents who we know will have strong RPIs and be high-level competition,” said Gottfried. “Obviously, some pieces of the schedule were in place when we got here, but we feel good about the upgrades we were able to make. We are playing teams like Princeton and Morehead State which both had 25 wins and went to the tournament last year, along with more traditional powers like Syracuse, Texas, Vanderbilt and Indiana. We also go on the road for tough games with Stanford in the Pac-10 and St. Bonaventure in the A-10 so I think it will be tremendously challenging.”

The University of North Carolina men's basketball team will begin its 2011-12 regular season on Friday, Nov. 11 with the first-ever college basketball game to be played on an aircraft carrier when the Tar Heels play Michigan State in the Carrier Classic. The game, featuring a rematch of the 2009 NCAA championship game won by UNC in Detroit, will be played on the deck of the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego, Calif.

"It is a really challenging schedule; it's a schedule that I think is really good for this team," said UNC head coach Roy Williams. "We like to play marquee games and we have several of them. I know my team will be fired up."

The Blue Devils open the season on Friday, Nov. 11 at 9 p.m. against Belmont in the regional site game for the EA Sports Maui Invitational. Duke turns right around for a 4:30 p.m. game on Nov. 12 versus Presbyterian. The Maui Invitational will continue Nov. 21-23 in Lahaina, Hawaii with Duke set to face Tennessee in its first game at 5:30 p.m. on Nov. 21.

Duke opens ACC conference play on Jan. 7 at Georgia Tech at 12 p.m., North Carolina will host Boston College the same day at 2:30 p.m. NC State opens conference play on Jan. 8 as they host Maryland at 6 p.m.

ACC Schedule Highlights:
• Full national telecasts on all games televised on an ESPN platform (had been local market blackouts on handful of telecasts).
• The new weekly ACC Sunday Night Basketball franchise on ESPNU;
• The continuation of ACC action on ESPN’s Super Tuesday, Wednesday Night Hoops, Thursday Night Showcase and Saturdays;
• The rights to every ACC Tournament game for distribution across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU (with no blackouts).

The ACC Network, which under the previous TV agreement, syndicated games only within the ACC footprint, will now syndicate ACC games through-out the country.

Further nonconference game selections by the conference’s Regional Sports Networks will be forthcoming and announced at a later date.

Through a new sublicense arrangement with ESPN, Raycom Sports will continue its long-standing position as the syndication home of ACC content for over-the-air and regional cable network distribution in the ACC market and beyond. As a result, every regular-season intra-conference game and the entire conference tournament will be produced and distributed via ESPN and Raycom Sports.

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RE: Every ACC league game will be televised in 2011-12

This is a good deal for the ACC but let's be honest, if Duke or UNC are not playing, who cares?
- Posted by BB5 the Boat Rocker

I know this is a basketball article, but I heard Coach Cut yesterday on the DG show. That man defininely "gets it" when it comes to what is important in life. He does a "walk of gratitude" every day, where he contemplates the things he's thankful for, (OK, insert Duke football jokes here if you have to), as well as his determinatio to give his best effort to his family and his team. Coach Cut is an example of what we should all strive to be.
- Posted by jgunn

+1.... Hope he turns things around.

RE: Every ACC league game will be televised in 2011-12

I'm excited about this deal, and I think it's great for the ACC.
- Posted by jgunn
You said that right sunshine. Swofford did the real deal in this one. Every school wins. "shamala-lama-ding-dang]." I was quoting a song and I had to change the last word. Kinda funny.
- Posted by Hokie 94

Yeah - it's funny what the censors consider "offensive", isn't it.

RE: Every ACC league game will be televised in 2011-12

This is a good deal for the ACC but let's be honest, if Duke or UNC are not playing, who cares?
- Posted by BB5 the Boat Rocker

I know this is a basketball article, but I heard Coach Cut yesterday on the DG show. That man defininely "gets it" when it comes to what is important in life. He does a "walk of gratitude" every day, where he contemplates the things he's thankful for, (OK, insert Duke football jokes here if you have to), as well as his determinatio to give his best effort to his family and his team. Coach Cut is an example of what we should all strive to be.

RE: Every ACC league game will be televised in 2011-12

This is a great win-win for all schools within the ACC. When some of you can see this without trashing a school next door...then you will see it. It's big money and loads of talent will be opt to listen to coaches that recruit them to their school. It's a great thing. Swofford did his job. I hope that all of the negative posters will read this one. This has never happened before has it? So...write another negative about this one because you hate UNC.

RE: Every ACC league game will be televised in 2011-12

Go to Hades Carolina!!!
- Posted by DurhamDevil

UNC is one of the two primary reasons this conference gets ANY recognition in basketball.You're funny. :)

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