Pairings Announced for the 30th Annual ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament

Feb. 25, 2007

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Duke clinched the No. 1 seed in the upcoming 2007 Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament, which will begin Thursday, March 1, at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, N.C. The Blue Devils finished the regular season undefeated for the first time in ACC and Duke history.

The 30th Annual ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament is set to tip-off at approximately 11 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 1 and will conclude with a 1 p.m. championship contest on Sunday, March 4. The title game as well as the semifinals showings will be broadcast by Fox Sports Net (FSN), while an ACC-record seven of the 11 games will be televised either regionally or nationally.

Clemson is seeded ninth in the tournament and will face eighth-seeded Virginia at 3:00 pm on Thursday afternoon. The game will be televised on the ACC’s Regional Network. The Cavaliers edged the Lady Tigers on Sunday, 86-85, at Littlejohn Coliseum in the teams’ only meeting of the 2006-07 season. The winner will face #1-seeded Duke on Friday at 3:00 pm, a game that will also be televised.

Thursday: Game No. 1 – Seed No. 5 Florida State vs. Seed No. 12 Wake Forest, 11:00 a.m. (RSN) Game No. 2 – Seed No. 8 Virginia vs. Seed No. 9 Clemson, 3:00 p.m. (RSN) Game No. 3 – Seed No. 7 Virginia Tech vs. Seed No. 10 Boston College, 6:00 p.m. Game No. 4 – Seed No. 6 Georgia Tech vs. Seed No. 11 Miami, 8:00 p.m.Friday: Game No. 5 – Seed No. 4 NC State vs. winner of Game 1, 11:00 a.m. (RSN) Game No. 6 – Seed No. 1 Duke vs. winner of Game 2, 3:00 p.m. (RSN) Game No. 7 – Seed No. 2 North Carolina vs. winner of Game 3, 6:00 p.m. Game No. 8 – Seed No. 3 Maryland vs. winner of Game 4, 8:00 p.m. Saturday: Game No. 9 – ACC Semifinal 1, 2:00 p.m. (FSN) Game No. 10 – ACC Semifinal 2, 4:30 p.m. (FSN)Sunday: Game No. 11 – Championship Game, 1:00 p.m. (FSN)

FSN – Fox Sports Net and affiliates

RSN – Fox Sports Net South (FSNS), ComCast Sports Net (CSN), Fox Sports Net Florida (FSNFL), New England Sports Network (NESN)

Tickets are available and may be obtained by calling tickets.com at (888) 397-3100, 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.