2019-20 ACC WBB Composite Schedule
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference announced its 2019-20 women’s basketball composite league schedule on Tuesday. New for this season, the ACC will play an 18-game conference slate, which includes a pair of matchups in early December to tip off the league schedule.
All 135 ACC regular-season conference games will be available through the ESPN family of networks, including the new ACC Network, the conference’s Regional Sports Networks (RSN) or ACC Network Extra.
Sixty regular-season games, including 42 conference games, are set to be televised by ACC Network and an additional 12 games will air on other ESPN networks. A league-record 121 games will air on ACC Network Extra, spanning non-conference and conference action.
Headlined by six Sunday afternoon doubleheaders and two Thursday evening doubleheaders, 25 league games will be broadcast on the ACC’s Regional Sports Networks (RSN). FOX Sports South, FOX Sports Florida, FOX Sports Sun, FOX Sports Midwest and FOX Sports Indiana are the regional television partners (RSN) for the 2019-20 ACC basketball season.
The 2019-20 season tips off on Tuesday, Nov. 5, with 10 of the league’s teams in action. North Carolina hosts Navy on Nov. 11 in the first women’s basketball game on ACC Network. The network airs its first women’s basketball doubleheader on Thursday, Nov. 14, with Louisville hosting Central Michigan and Michigan State at Notre Dame.
For the 13th consecutive season, two of the nation’s premier women’s basketball conferences will square off for hardwood bragging rights in the Big Ten/ACC Women's Basketball Challenge. The annual challenge, which is scheduled to continue through the 2026-27 season, offers 14 high-quality matchups for the sixth consecutive season.
The ACC owns nine titles (9-0-3), including three consecutive outright titles.
The Challenge takes place over two days in early December, beginning Wednesday, Dec. 4, with five matchups as ACC schools Miami and Notre Dame play host to Big Ten programs, while Boston College, Clemson and Duke will travel to Big Ten sites. The following night (Thursday, Dec. 5), features the remaining nine games of the Challenge as Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, NC State and Virginia Tech will serve as the ACC host schools, while Louisville, Pittsburgh, Syracuse and Virginia will play at Big Ten sites.
The conference schedule opens on Sunday, Dec. 8, with Florida State visiting Clemson and Duke hosting Boston College. League play begins in full swing on Sunday, Dec. 29, with six league games on the slate.
Five ACC teams are listed among ESPN’s Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2019-20: No. 8 Louisville, No. 11 Florida State, No. 15 NC State, No. 20 Notre Dame and No. 22 Miami.
Led by ACC Champion Notre Dame, a record-tying eight league teams were selected to the 64-team 2019 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship field. The eight teams selected to the tournament matched a league record (2014, 2015 and 2018) and were the most of any conference.
The ACC has had at least one Final Four team in five of the past six seasons and a team has advanced to the title game each time in as many years. Since 2006, current ACC membership combines for 10 title game appearances, the most of any conference.
ACC member institutions have won three NCAA Championships and made 24 trips to the Final Four.
The 2020 ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament will be held March 4-8 at the Greensboro Coliseum for the 20th time in the last 21 years.