All-Access basketball special takes viewers behind the scenes at 2018 New York Life ACC Tournament
 
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center teamed up for the second time in early March for the New York Life ACC Tournament. Basketball fans now have a chance to re-live some of the most memorable moments and get a first-hand look at what went on behind the scenes.
 
“Big City, Bright Lights: The 2018 New York Life ACC Tournament” documents this year’s Big Apple experience. The hour-long special takes viewers behind the scenes of a tournament that radiated with its usual high intensity and broke two of its own venue attendance records for college basketball before Virginia outlasted North Carolina in the Saturday night championship game.
 
The program debuts on ESPNU on Tuesday, June 5 at 5 p.m.
 
DDC International, in collaboration with ACC Advanced Media, takes the viewer ”backstage” into the locker room, outside into the team hallways and into postgame press conferences. The “ACC Confessional” provides immediate reaction from coaches and players at the games’ conclusions. One feels the intensity of competition on the court and the flavor of the New York backdrop in this visually stunning production.
 
With the help of narration by former Virginia standout and current television commentator Cory Alexander, “Big City, Bright Lights” goes beyond the on-court action for the human-interest stories, such as star center Ben Lammers balancing ACC basketball and Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech, and Florida State’s Terance Mann’s community outreach efforts in Tallahassee. Highlights also include father/son connections at Syracuse between assistant coach Adrian Autry Sr. and walk-on Adrian Autry Jr. and Wake Forest with Associate Head Coach Randolph Childress and Brandon Childress, a look at the journey of 7’ center Anas Mahmoud from Egypt to Louisville and how Clemson’s Gabe DeVoe went from man on the bench to team scoring leader.
 
It all makes for a well-told story of the event has set the gold standard for college basketball tournaments for more than six decades.
 
ESPNU has scheduled airings of “Big City, Bright Lights” at the following times:
 
Tuesday, June 5 at  5 p.m. | WATCH
Wednesday, June 6 at 4 p.m. | WATCH
Wednesday, June 6 at 10 p.m. | WATCH
Saturday, June 9 at 2 p.m. | WATCH
 
This marks the 21st consecutive year that an ACC Tournament documentary has been produced.
 
About the ACC
The Atlantic Coast Conference, now in its 65th year of competition and 15 members strong, has long enjoyed the reputation as one of the strongest and most competitive intercollegiate conferences in the nation. ACC members Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Notre Dame, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest continue to build upon the cornerstones on which the league was founded in 1953 with a consistent balance of academics, athletics and integrity. The ACC currently sponsors 27 NCAA sports – 14 for women and 13 for men – with member institutions located in 10 states. For more information, visit theACC.com and follow @theACC on Twitter and on Facebook (facebook.com/theACC).
 
About DDC-International
DDC-International is a video production company that tells stories about people, places, and ideas. over the past decade we have produced award-winning feature documentary content for the Atlantic Coast Conference, Fox Sports, ESPN, Fusion TV and many other broadcasters.  In 2018, DDC worked with All Rise Films and Priority Pictures to produce the feature documentary Momentum Generation, which won an Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. IN addition we collaborated with All Rise Films and the Diptongo Group to produce the feature-documentary Nossa Chape, which premiered at SXSW and will broadcast as part of the Fox Sports Films Magnify Series.  DDC's films explore the intersections of sports and society as well as international development activities that span the globe.  With experience working in over seventy-five countries around the world and producing content that ranges from 30 second social media blurbs to feature-length documentaries, DDC has the expertise and experience to take any project from drawing board to awards ceremony.