Friday, Feb. 7
Gardner-Webb at #21/20 Duke | 4 p.m. | ACCNX
Canisius at #4/4 Syracuse | 7:30 p.m. | ACCNX
Saturday, Feb. 8
#5/5 Boston College at UMass | Noon
#8/9 Virginia at #15/17 Navy | 1 p.m.
#1/2 North Carolina at #17/16 JMU | 1 p.m.
Davidson at #23/RV Virginia Tech | 2 p.m. | ACCNX
Sunday, Feb. 9
Marquette at #7/7 Notre Dame | Noon | ACCNX
#3/3 Northwestern at #21/20 Duke | Noon | ACCNX
Louisville at Cincinnati | 1 p.m.
All times Eastern
Rankings: IWLCA/Inside Lacrosse
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The 2020 ACC women's lacrosse season begins this weekend with all eight teams in action. Duke kicks things off for the league as it plays host to Gardner-Webb at 4 p.m. Friday.
Noting ACC Women's Lacrosse
• Seven ACC teams are ranked in at least one of of the preseason polls. The ACC has the most teams of any conference in both the IWLCA and Inside Lacrosse preseason polls.
• North Carolina is ranked No. 1 by Inside Lacrosse and No. 2 by the IWLCA.
• Five of the eight ACC programs are among the preseason IL Top 10 (No. 1 North Carolina, No. 4 Syracuse, No. 5 Boston College, No. 7 Notre Dame, No. 9 Virginia).
• The ACC has 21 players on the Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America Team, with nine of the 13 first-team honorees coming from ACC programs. The 21 Preseason All-Americans is by far the most of any conference.
• Eight of the 16 members of the 2019 All-ACC Team are back this season.
• Two of the ACC’s major award winners from the 2019 season return this year: North Carolina junior Emma Trenchard (ACC Defender of the Year) and Syracuse sophomore Sarah Cooper (ACC Freshman of the Year).
• The Preseason All-ACC Team includes seven players who earned All-America honors from the IWLCA following the 2019 season. Fourteen of the 17 players on the Preseason All-ACC Team also are represented on Inside Lacrosse Face-Off Yearbook’s 2020 Preseason All-America Team.
• The 2020 ACC Women's Lacrosse Championship will be hosted by North Carolina April 22, 24 and 26 at the new Dorrance Field.
ACC Tradition of Excellence
• Entering the season, the ACC's veteran group of eight head coaches has combined to win 1,699 games. Each has at least eight years of head coaching experience and at least 100 career wins.
• Five ACC head coaches rank among the winningest active Division I head coaches: UNC's Jenny Levy (3rd, 346), Virginia's Julie Myers (T4th, 324), Duke's Kerstin Kimel (7th, 299), Syracuse's Gary Gait (19th, 190) and Louisville's Scott Teeter (T25th, 156).
• The ACC has been represented by at least one team in the national semifinals in each of the last 30 years and 34 times overall.
• The ACC owns 15 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse titles. North Carolina was the last ACC team to win the NCAA Championship in 2016.
• The ACC has had a team in the national title game 10 times in the last 11 years.
Record Coverage for ACC Women's Lacrosse
• ACC Network (ACCN), the 24/7 national platform dedicated to ACC sports, begins its women's lacrosse coverage March 5 with Louisville at North Carolina.
• ACCN will showcase the ACC’s women’s lacrosse programs with unprecedented national television coverage this spring.
• ACCN will exclusively televise 15 women's lacrosse games, marking the most national television coverage ever for ACC women’s lacrosse.
• ACCN will debut a new dedicated night of live lacrosse programming – Thursdays – starting March 5. Overall, three women's and four men’s games will be featured on Thursday nights throughout the spring.