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2008 ACC Baseball Television Schedule Announced Feb. 20, 2008 GREENSBORO, N.C. - Exposure of Atlantic Coast Conference baseball success continues in 2008, as this year's television package features 51 games on six different networks, announced today by Commissioner John D. Swofford. The airtime bundle will showcase all 12 league teams and include 38 games from the regular season and all 13 contests in the ACC Baseball Championship for the second time in league history. In addition to this year's television package, ACC Select will continue carrying numerous conference baseball games. Last year, ACC Select delivered an unprecedented opportunity for fans to watch live and on-demand coverage as more than 115 games were streamed online. It also marked the first time in ACC history that the conference provided online video streams of the sport's regular season games to a national fan base. As additional games continue to be added to the 2008 schedule, visit ACCSelect.com/baseball for the most up-to-date listing of ACC baseball action on ACC Select. Fifteen regular-season games will be broadcast on Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS) and eight others will air on the Regional Sports Networks (RSN). Sun Sports Network (SSN) will pick up six contests from the regular season, while five will be featured on the Sports South (SS) airwaves. Assignment of television networks for each game in the ACC Championship will be determined at a later date. For the second year in a row, the 2008 ACC Baseball Championship will be played in a round-robin format. Last year, North Carolina captured its first championship crown in 18 years and fifth all-time after defeating Wake Forest, only the second No. 8 seeded team to advance to the title game, by a 3-2 score.
The tournament format remains the same, as each of the eight teams that qualify and compete in the five-day event is guaranteed a minimum of three games within its half of the bracket. Seeding for the eight teams advancing to the ACC Baseball Championship will be determined after the completion of the regular season. Seeds 1, 4, 5 and 8 will compete in pool play on one side of the bracket, while seeds 2, 3, 6 and 7 will play in the other. The two teams with the best record within their bracket will advance to the Championship title game, with the winner earning the ACC's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament. The 2008 ACC Baseball Championship, which takes place May 21-25, will return to the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Fla., for the fourth straight year. In 2007, under the new tournament format, the session attendance record was shattered three different times and a new league tournament session attendance record was established as 14,970 fans watched Clemson knock off No. 1 seed Florida State, 5-1, and eighth-seeded Wake Forest upend No. 5 seed Miami on Saturday. In addition, the 2007 Championship produced the third-best showing in 34 years of the tournament's history as 59,325 fans attended the five-day affair. All 12 ACC teams will open the 2008 season this Friday, Feb. 22, along with the rest of the Division I college baseball programs. -ACC- |
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