Composite Schedule
 
GREENSBORO, N.C. (TheACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference announced today the composite league schedule for the 2018-19 ACC women’s basketball season.
Highlights of the upcoming league schedule include:
 
• All 120 conference games will be broadcast on an ESPN linear network, Regional Sports Networks or ACC Network Extra.
 
• Eight regular season conference games on ESPN networks, including Louisville at Notre Dame on ESPN’s Thursday Night Showcase and at least four games on ESPN2.
 
• ACC Network Extra will carry 87 conference games throughout the season.
 
• Twenty-five conference games on the ACC’s Regional Sports Networks (RSN) are highlighted by seven Sunday afternoon doubleheaders on Jan. 6, Jan. 13, Jan. 20, Jan. 27, Feb. 17, Feb. 24 and March 3. The ACC’s Regional Sports Networks for the 2018-19 season is comprised of FOX Sports South, FOX Sports Florida, FOX Sports Sun, FOX Sports Midwest, FOX Sports Indiana, NESN, YES Network, AT&T SPORTSNET Pittsburgh and NBC Sports Washington. All games will also be available via the FOX Sports and ESPN Apps but are subject to blackout.

• The 2018-19 women’s basketball season tips off on Tuesday, Nov. 6, with seven ACC teams in action. The ACC begins conference play on Thursday, Jan. 3, with six league games – Duke at NC State, Syracuse at Clemson, North Carolina at Louisville, Virginia Tech at Miami, Pitt at Notre Dame and Florida State at Virginia.  
 
• The 42nd annual ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament is back in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Greensboro Coliseum Wednesday, March 6 through Sunday, March 10. RSN will carry the first, second and quarterfinal rounds, while the semifinals will be broadcast on ESPNU. ESPN2 will carry Sunday’s championship game.
 
• In addition to the 120 televised league games, three non-conference games will air on either ESPN or ESPN2.  Additional non-league games are expected to be broadcast on ACC Network Extra. The ACC Network Extra coverage debuted in 2016-17 and marked the initial phase of the full ACC Network announced in July 2016 by ESPN and the ACC. Live streaming of women’s basketball continues to increase, and the events covered by ACC Network Extra are available to users who have access to the ESPN App.
 
• ACC teams will play at least 40 games against teams that are either ranked in ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2018-19 or earned a berth in the 2018 NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship.
 
• The ACC sent eight teams to the NCAA Championship in 2018, with Notre Dame and Louisville earning berths in the Final Four and the Fighting Irish wining the NCAA title.
 
What’s to come in 2018-19
 
• The ACC welcomes four new head coaches to the league – Boston College’s Joanna Bernabei-McNamee, Clemson’s Amanda Butler, Pitt’s Lance White and Virginia’s Tina Thompson, who was recently enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
 
• The ACC returns two Associated Press All-Americans from a season ago – Louisville’s Asia Durr (first team) and Notre Dame’s Arike Ogunbowale (second team). Notre Dame’s Brianna Turner, an AP All-America Second Team selection in 2017, is set to return to Irish for the 2018-19 season after sitting out in 2017-18 due to injury. 
 
• Eight All-ACC performers return from a season ago – Louisville’s Asia Durr (first team, ACC Player of the Year), North Carolina’s Paris Kea (first team), Notre Dame’s Arike Ogunbowale (first team), Jessica Shepard (first team) and Marina Mabrey (second team), Syracuse's Tiana Mangakahia (first team), Virginia Tech’s Taylor Emery (second team) and Wake Forest’s Elisa Penna (second team). All eight players who were All-Freshman Team selections also return: Boston College’s Milan Bolden-Morris, Duke’s Jade Williams, Georgia Tech’s Kierra Fletcher, Louisville’s Dana Evans, Miami’s Mykea Gray and Kelsey Marshall, North Carolina’s Janelle Bailey (the ACC Freshman of the Year) and Syracuse’s Digna Strautmane.
 
• Five ACC teams are listed among ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2018-19: No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 5 Louisville, No. 16 NC State, No. 20 Duke and No. 23 Syracuse.
 
• The ACC has five of the top 20 freshman classes as ranked by ESPN Hoopgurlz this season – No. 6 Florida State, No. 7 Notre Dame, No. 8 Syracuse, No. 9 Georgia Tech and No. 15 Louisville. The ACC’s five ranked classes are tied for the most from any conference.
 
• Seven McDonalds All-Americans join the league for the 2018-19 season: Valencia Myers (Florida State), Izabela Nicoletti (Florida State), Elizabeth Balogun (Georgia Tech), Elizabeth Dixon (Georgia Tech), Jordan Nixon (Notre Dame), Katlyn Gilbert (Notre Dame) and Emily Engstler (Syracuse).  
 
For more information on ACC women’s basketball, visit theACC.com and be sure to follow the league on Twitter: @ACCWBB.
 
 
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