All 135 Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball regular season league games and each of the 14 ACC Tournament games are slated to be televised on an ESPN network, the ACC Network, CBS Sports, or on one of the league’s 10 regional cable networks in a schedule released by Commissioner John Swofford on Thursday.
Of the 149 games, 83 will be aired nationally. ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU will televise 78 contests, including all 14 ACC Tournament games while CBS Sports will televise five contests. The ACC Network will carry 52 league matchups, including the ACC Tournament in its entirety, while the Regional Sports Network will air 28 games.
The schedule also includes two Saturday Primetime Presented by DIRECTV telecasts and stops by College GameDay Covered by State Farm: Duke at Syracuse (February 1, at 6:30 p.m. ET) and North Carolina at Duke (March 8 at 9 p.m.), both on ESPN.
All conference games carried on an ESPN network will also be available on WatchESPN. Conference games carried on the ACC Network or a regional sports network will also be available on ESPN3.
The 2013-14 slate of conference games marks the inaugural ACC campaign for Notre Dame, Pittsburgh and Syracuse. The ACC’s new membership further enhances a league that has historically been college basketball’s strongest.
The 15 schools that will comprise the ACC in 2013-14 have made 51 trips to the Final Four and have captured 13 NCAA National Championships. Current league members have won 22,151 games, including 532 in NCAA Tournament play and have had 681 NBA draft picks, including 221 first-round selections.
Additionally, three of the top five, four of the top 10 and five of the top 25 winningest programs in NCAA Division I basketball history currently reside in the ACC.
Three of the five active Division I coaches that have been selected for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame – Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, North Carolina’s Roy Williams and Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim – are in the ACC. When Louisville’s Rick Pitino joins the league’s coaching ranks in 2014-15, the ACC will have four of the five active Naismith Hall of Fame coaches.
Starting with the Virginia at Duke game in Durham, N.C. on January 13, ESPN will showcase eight ACC games basketball on its weekly “Big Monday” telecast. Each “Big Monday” game is set for a 7 p.m. tip and will be televised nationally by ESPN.
The 61st annual ACC Tournament on March 12-16 will continue to be televised on a variety of ESPN platforms and the ACC Network. The Championship will begin with three first-round games on Wednesday, followed by the second round, quarterfinals, semifinals and title contest in successive days.
The ACC’s regional sports network (RSN) consists of Fox Sports South, Fox Sports Carolinas, Fox Sports Florida, Sun Sports, Fox Sports Indiana, Comcast Sports Net Mid-Atlantic, New England Sports Network (NESN), the YES Network, the Madison Square Garden Network (MSG) in New York and Root Sports in Pennsylvania.
A complete 2013-14 ACC basketball schedule, including non-conference games for all 15 league member institutions, will be released at a later date.
2013-14 ACC Basketball Conference Schedule
ESPN/2 denotes either ESPN or ESPN2
ACCN denotes ACC Network
RSN denotes Regional Sports Network
Sunday, Dec. 8
Virginia Tech at Miami
Thursday, Dec. 12
Maryland at Boston College
Saturday, Jan. 4
Pittsburgh at NC State
Georgia Tech at Maryland
Miami at Syracuse
Duke at Notre Dame
Clemson at Boston College
Virginia at Florida State
Sunday, Jan. 5
North Carolina at Wake Forest ESPNU
Monday, Jan. 6
Maryland at Pittsburgh
Tuesday, Jan. 7
Georgia Tech at Duke
NC State at Notre Dame
Syracuse at Virginia Tech
Wednesday, Jan. 8
Wake Forest at Virginia
Miami at North Carolina
Thursday, Jan. 9
Florida State at Clemson
Saturday, Jan. 11
North Carolina at Syracuse
Notre Dame at Georgia Tech
Wake Forest at Pittsburgh
Boston College at Virginia Tech RSN
Duke at Clemson
Virginia at NC State
Sunday, Jan. 12
Maryland at Florida State
Monday, Jan. 13
Virginia at Duke
Syracuse at Boston College
Tuesday, Jan. 14
Pittsburgh at Georgia Tech
Wednesday, Jan. 15
Notre Dame at Maryland
Clemson at Virginia Tech
Florida State at Miami
NC State at Wake Forest
Saturday, Jan. 18
Florida State at Virginia
Boston College at North Carolina ESPN/2
NC State at Duke
Miami at Georgia Tech
Pittsburgh at Syracuse
Wake Forest at Clemson
Sunday, Jan. 19
Virginia Tech at Notre Dame
Monday, Jan. 20
North Carolina at Virginia
Maryland at NC State
Tuesday, Jan. 21
Clemson at Pittsburgh
Notre Dame at Florida State
Georgia Tech at Boston College ESPNU
Wednesday, Jan. 22
Wake Forest at Virginia Tech RSN
Duke at Miami
Saturday, Jan. 25
Florida State at Duke
Syracuse at Miami
Notre Dame at Wake Forest ACCN
Virginia Tech at Virginia
Pittsburgh at Maryland
Sunday, Jan. 26
Georgia Tech at NC State
Clemson at North Carolina
Monday, Jan. 27
Duke at Pittsburgh
Tuesday, Jan. 28
Virginia at Notre Dame
Wednesday, Jan. 29
North Carolina at Georgia Tech ESPN2
Virginia Tech at Boston College RSN
Florida State at NC State
Miami at Maryland
Syracuse at Wake Forest
Saturday, Feb. 1
Maryland at Virginia Tech
Boston College at Notre Dame ACCN
Georgia Tech at Wake Forest RSN
NC State at North Carolina
Clemson at Florida State
Duke at Syracuse
Sunday, Feb. 2
Virginia at Pittsburgh
Monday, Feb. 3
Notre Dame at Syracuse
Tuesday, Feb. 4
Maryland at North Carolina
Georgia Tech at Clemson
Wake Forest at Duke
Wednesday, Feb. 5
Boston College at Virginia
Pittsburgh at Miami
Virginia Tech at Florida State RSN
Saturday, Feb. 8
North Carolina at Notre Dame ACCN
Virginia at Georgia Tech
Virginia Tech at Pittsburgh
NC State at Miami
Florida State at Maryland
Duke at Boston College
Sunday, Feb. 9
Clemson at Syracuse
Monday, Feb. 10
Maryland at Virginia
Miami at Florida State
Tuesday, Feb. 11
Wake Forest at NC State
Clemson at Notre Dame
Wednesday, Feb. 12
Syracuse at Pittsburgh
Boston College at Georgia Tech RSN
Duke at North Carolina
Saturday, Feb. 15
Virginia at Clemson
Pittsburgh at North Carolina
NC State at Syracuse
Maryland at Duke
Miami at Virginia Tech
Florida State at Wake Forest RSN
Sunday, Feb. 16
Notre Dame at Boston College
Monday, Feb. 17
North Carolina at Florida State ESPN
Tuesday, Feb. 18
Wake Forest at Maryland
NC State at Clemson
Duke at Georgia Tech
Virginia at Virginia Tech
Wednesday, Feb. 19
Boston College at Syracuse
Notre Dame at Miami
Saturday, Feb. 22
Boston College at Miami
Wake Forest at North Carolina
Clemson at Georgia Tech
Notre Dame at Virginia
NC State at Virginia Tech
Syracuse at Duke
Sunday, Feb. 23
Florida State at Pittsburgh
Monday, Feb. 24
Syracuse at Maryland
Tuesday, Feb. 25
Virginia Tech at Duke
Clemson at Wake Forest
Wednesday, Feb. 26
Georgia Tech at Notre Dame
Miami at Virginia
North Carolina at NC State
Pittsburgh at Boston College
Saturday, March 1
Miami at NC State
Pittsburgh at Notre Dame
North Carolina at Virginia Tech ACCN
Syracuse at Virginia
Boston College at Wake Forest RSN
Sunday, March 2
Maryland at Clemson
Georgia Tech at Florida State
Monday, March 3
Notre Dame at North Carolina
NC State at Pittsburgh
Tuesday, March 4
Georgia Tech at Syracuse
Virginia Tech at Maryland
Miami at Clemson
Florida State at Boston College ESPNU
Wednesday, March 5
Duke at Wake Forest
Saturday, March 8
Virginia Tech at Georgia Tech ESPN/2
Wake Forest at Miami
Pittsburgh at Clemson
North Carolina at Duke
Sunday, March 9
Virginia at Maryland
Syracuse at Florida State
Boston College at NC State