University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Opens ACC Tournament Thursday Against Clemson
February 27, 2011 | Women's Basketball
Feb. 27, 2011
GREENSBORO, N.C. --- The 34th Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament begins Thursday, March 3, at the Greensboro Coliseum and North Carolina has earned the No. 6 seed. The Tar Heels will open their pursuit of a record 10th ACC title at 8 p.m. Thursday against 11th-seeded Clemson. UNC won the lone regular season meeting, 60-47, in Clemson, S.C., on Feb. 10. Thursday's game will be available on the ACC Network on TheACC.com.
Thursday
Game No. 1 - No. 5 Ga. Tech vs. No. 12 Va. Tech, 11 a.m. (RSN, Fox HD)
Game No. 2 - No. 8 Virginia vs. No. 9 Wake Forest, 3 p.m. (RSN, Fox HD)
Game No. 3 - No. 7 Boston College vs. No. 10 NC State, 6 p.m. (ACC Network on theACC.com)
Game No. 4 - No. 6 North Carolina vs. No. 11 Clemson, 8 p.m. (ACC Network on theACC.com)
RSN - Fox Sports Net South (FSNS), ComCast Sports Net (CSN), Fox Sports Net Florida (FSNFL), New England Sports Network (NESN)
The 2011 ACC Women's Tournament will mark the 12th consecutive year the Coliseum has played host to the event. Last year, the Tournament set a new single-game attendance record in the opening round's School Day game with a crowd of 11,445 that featured approximately 7,800 elementary students, nearly 2,000 more than the year before.
Tickets are available and may be obtained by calling tickets.com at (336) 852-1100, by visiting tickets.com on the web at www.tickets.com, or by calling an ACC school's ticket office for tickets in that team's section.
