North Carolina State University Athletics
Women's Basketball is No. 4 Seed in ACC Tournament
2/25/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
GREENSBORO, N.C. — NC State is the No. 4 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 Wolfpack finished in a three-way tie for third place in the league standings at 10-4 with Maryland and Florida State. The Terrapins earned the No. 3 seed by virtue of tie breaking procedures, while the Seminoles take the fifth seed because NC State defeated them back on February 5 for head coach Kay Yow’s 700th win.
NC State will take on the winner of the No. 5 Florida State vs. No. 12 Wake Forest game, which takes place Thursday at 11 am.
Duke clinched the No. 1 seed as 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.
The top seeds have won 13 of the 29 ACC titles.
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.
