Wake Forest Athletics
Deacons to Face Miami in ACC Tournament Opener
2/28/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Feb. 28, 2010
GREENSBORO, N.C. - Wake Forest is seeded fifth in the upcoming Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament and will face 12-seed Miami on Thursday, March 4 at 11 a.m.
The 33rd Annual ACC Women's Basketball Tournament is set to tip-off at approximately 11 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 4, and will conclude with a 1 p.m. championship contest on Sunday, March 7. The title game as well as the semifinals showings will be broadcast by Fox Sports Net (FSN) in high definition, while the 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. games on Thursday, March 4, and Friday, March 5, will be televised on the league's regional package (RSN).
The Blue Devils last won the league's tournament trophy in 2004, ending a five-year stretch that Duke held the tournament crown, the longest streak in ACC Tournament history. Those five years also marked the first five years of Greensboro hosting the tournament. The Blue Devils will find out their quarterfinals opponent after No. 5 seeded Wake Forest takes on No. 12 seeded Miami in the first game of the four-day event.
Thursday:
Game No. 1 - Seed No. 5 Wake Forest vs. Seed No. 12 Miami 11:00 a.m. (RSN, Fox HD)
Game No. 2 - Seed No. 8 North Carolina vs. Seed No. 9 Maryland, 3:00 p.m. (RSN, Fox HD)
Game No. 3 - Seed No. 7 Boston College vs. Seed No. 10 Virginia Tech, 6:00 p.m. (ACC Select, theACC.com)
Game No. 4 - Seed No. 6 NC State vs. Seed No. 11 Clemson, 8:00 p.m. (ACC Select, theACC.com)
Friday:
Game No. 5 - Seed No. 4 Georgia Tech vs. winner of Game 1, 11:00 a.m. (RSN, Fox HD)
Game No. 6 - Seed No. 1 Duke vs. winner of Game 2, 3:00 p.m. (RSN, Fox HD)
Game No. 7 - Seed No. 2 Florida State vs. winner of Game 3, 6:00 p.m. (ACC Select, theACC.com)
Game No. 8 - Seed No. 3 Virginia vs. winner of Game 4, 8:00 p.m. (ACC Select, theACC.com)
Saturday:
Game No. 9 - ACC Semifinal 1, 1:00 p.m. (Fox Sports Net - HD)
Game No. 10 - ACC Semifinal 2, 3:30 p.m. (Fox Sports Net - HD)
Sunday:
Game No. 11 - Championship Game, 1:00 p.m. (Fox Sports Net - HD)
RSN - Fox Sports Net South (FSNS), ComCast Sports Net (CSN), Fox Sports Net Florida (FSNFL), New England Sports Network (NESN)
Tickets are available and may be obtained by calling tickets.com at (336) 852-1100, by visiting tickets.com on the web at www.tickets.com, or by calling an ACC school's ticket office for tickets in that team's section.
For more information on ACC women's basketball, log onto theACC.com. Also, be sure to check out the new version of the league's "She Can Play" theme song - The Remix - on theACC.com/SheCanPlay.
