University of North Carolina Athletics
ACC Baseball Television Schedule Announced
February 16, 2007 | Baseball
Feb. 16, 2007
GREENSBORO, N.C. - An unprecedented 53 Atlantic Coast Conference baseball games will be televised in 2007, as announced today by Commissioner John D. Swofford. Included are all 13 games in this year's ACC Baseball Tournament which will be televised for the first time in league history.
This year's televised schedule will feature all 12 league's teams, including all seven NCAA participants from a year ago. Georgia Tech and Florida State are each slotted for a minimum of nine television appearances, while there are six for Miami. Clemson and North Carolina have three games scheduled for the airwaves, while Maryland and Wake Forest have two apiece. Boston College, NC State and Virginia Tech will each appear in at least one game in 2007.
Sixteen games will be broadcast on Comcast Sports Southeast (CSS) and 10 others will air on the Sun Sports Network (SSN). Nine games are scheduled to be picked up by the Regional Sports Network (RSN), while five will be featured on the Sports South airwaves. Sports South and Fox Sports Network will showcase all of the ACC Baseball Championship games, including the title game.
Also another first for the league this year, the 2007 ACC Baseball Championship will be played in a round-robin format. Under the new format, each of the eight teams that qualify and compete in the five-day event is guaranteed a minimum of three games within its half of the bracket.
Seeding for the eight teams advancing to the ACC Baseball Championship will be determined after the completion of the regular season. Seeds 1, 4, 5 and 8 will compete in pool play on one side of the bracket, while seeds 2, 3, 6 and 7 will play in the other. The two teams with the best record within their bracket will advance to the Championship title game, with the winner earning the ACC's automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.
The 2006 season turned out to be record-making year for the ACC. The conference sent seven teams to the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row, with a league-record four teams advancing to the College World Series. Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami and North Carolina made the trip to Omaha with the Tar Heels finishing runner-up to eventual champion Oregon State.
In addition to this year's television package, ACC Select will carry more than 115 ACC baseball games delivering an unprecedented opportunity for fans to watch live and on-demand coverage of a college sport rarely available to watch on television. It marks the first time in ACC history that the conference will provide online video streams of the sport's regular season games to a national fan base. For complete details, go to www.accselect.com The 2007 ACC Baseball Championship, which takes place May 23-27, will return to the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville in Jacksonville, Fla., for the third straight year. In 2006, a league-record 73,251 fans witnessed the tournament which ended with top-seeded Clemson defeating seventh-seeded NC State 8-4 in the championship title game.
