Men’s & Women’s Basketball Heading To Charlotte For ACC Tipoff – University of North Carolina Athletics


ACC Network will present two full days of live, on-site coverage of the ACC Women’s and Men’s Tipoff events from Charlotte on Tuesday and Wednesday Oct. 24-25. Kelsey Riggs will host daylong Nothing But Net specials from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. on both days from the ACC basketball media days at the Hilton Charlotte Uptown.  

Every ACC men’s and women’s basketball coach, as well as players from all 15 member schools, and ACC commissioner Jim Phillips will be interviewed on ACC Network throughout the two days.

Head coach Courtney Banghart and players Deja Kelly and Alyssa Ustby will represent the UNC women on Tuesday, while Hubert Davis, Armando Bacot and RJ Davis will be on hand for the Tar Heel men on Wednesday.

Men’s Notes

  • The ACC’s current 15 member schools have captured three of the last eight NCAA championships, with 99 NCAA Tournament wins in that span. 
  • Current ACC schools have won eight NCAA titles in the last 22 tournaments and own 17 national championships overall.
  • Current ACC member schools have combined for 67 men’s Final Four appearances and a national-best 664 NCAA Tournament wins.
  • The ACC owns the highest all-time NCAA Tournament winning percentage of any league (.618).
  • All 15 league members own 1,000 or more all-time wins, including eight schools with 1,500 or more victories. Four of the top eight and six of the top 30 winningest programs in NCAA Division I basketball history currently reside in the ACC.

Women’s Notes

  • A nation-best eight ACC teams were selected to compete in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. It marked the fifth consecutive NCAA Tournament in which eight ACC teams were selected, which ties the league record and is the most among all conferences in that span.
  • Five teams have represented the ACC in the last five Final Fours.
  • The ACC also owns 119 NCAA Tournament wins since 2014, the most of any conference. The next closest conference has 107.
  • The ACC is the only conference to have at least three teams in the Sweet 16 in each of the last nine NCAA Tournaments. Last season, four ACC teams advanced to the Sweet 16: Virginia Tech, Louisville, Miami and Notre Dame.
  • A nation-best seven ACC teams finished in the top 25 in the NCAA NET Rankings last season, headlined by three (Notre Dame, Virginia Tech and Duke) all finishing in the top 10.

During the ACC Women’s Tipoff on Tuesday, Oct. 24, Riggs will be joined on-set by analysts Muffet McGraw, Kelly Gramlich and Ivory Latta. On Wednesday, Oct. 25, Riggs will team with analysts Seth Greenberg, Joel Berry II and Luke Hancock. Both days of coverage will also feature ACC PM hosts Mark Packer and Taylor Tannebaum. 

The ACC enters the 2023-24 women’s basketball season with five teams ranked in the AP Preseason poll, including 2023 ACC Tournament champion and Final Four participant Virginia Tech (No. 8), last year’s ACC regular season champion Notre Dame (No. 10), North Carolina (No. 16), Louisville (No. 17) and Florida State (No. 18). On the men’s side, three ACC teams are ranked in the AP Preseason poll – No. 2 Duke, No. 13 Miami – after advancing to its first Final Four, and No. 19 North Carolina.

During the upcoming season, ACC Network will feature a record 86 women’s basketball games and more than 100 men’s basketball games.  
 

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