March 1, 2009

2009 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament Site

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Maryland clinched the No. 1 seed in the upcoming 2009 Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament, which will begin Thursday, March 5, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. The Terrapins look to end North Carolina’s four-year ACC title streak in what will be the 10th Anniversary in Greensboro.

The 32nd Annual ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament is set to tip-off at approximately 11 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 5, and will conclude with a 1 p.m. championship contest on Sunday, March 8. The title game as well as the semifinals showings will be broadcast by Fox Sports Net (FSN), while the 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. games on Thursday, March 5, and Friday, March 6, will be televised on the league’s regional package (RSN).

The Terps have played in 11 of the 32-year tournament’s title games, taking home eight ACC crowns. The last year that Maryland won the four-day event was in 1989, when the Tournament was held in Fayetteville, N.C.

Thursday:
Game No. 1 - Seed No. 5 Georgia Tech vs. Seed No. 12 Clemson 11:00 a.m. (RSN)
Game No. 2 - Seed No. 8 NC State vs. Seed No. 9 Wake Forest, 3:00 p.m. (RSN)
Game No. 3 - Seed No. 7 Boston College vs. Seed No. 10 Miami, 6:00 p.m. (ACC Select)
Game No. 4 - Seed No. 6 Virginia vs. Seed No. 11 Virginia Tech, 8:00 p.m. (ACC Select)

Friday:
Game No. 5 - Seed No. 4 North Carolina vs. winner of Game 1, 11:00 a.m. (RSN)
Game No. 6 - Seed No. 1 Maryland vs. winner of Game 2, 3:00 p.m. (RSN)
Game No. 7 - Seed No. 2 Florida State vs. winner of Game 3, 6:00 p.m. (ACC Select)
Game No. 8 - Seed No. 3 Duke vs. winner of Game 4, 8:00 p.m. (ACC Select)

Saturday:
Game No. 9 - ACC Semifinal 1, 1:00 p.m. (Fox Sports Net)
Game No. 10 - ACC Semifinal 2, 3:30 p.m. (Fox Sports Net)

Sunday:
Game No. 11 - Championship Game, 1:00 p.m. (Fox Sports Net)

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.