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ACC Announces 2024–2025 Championship Sites

The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced its championship dates, sites and tournament formats for the 2024–2025 academic year, which will feature 18 schools for the first time with the addition of Cal, SMU and Stanford. The ACC now sponsors 15 women’s and 13 men’s sports. The 28 overall sports and 15 women’s sports are the […]

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Duke guard Jeremy Roach drives between Virginia forward Jayden Gardner (1) and guard Armaan Franklin (4) during the second half of the championship of the 2023 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament in Greensboro, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

ACC Sets Future Basketball Tournaments, Championships for North Carolina

The Atlantic Coast Conference will hold five straight men’s basketball tournaments in North Carolina starting in 2025, while the women’s tournament that has had a longtime home in Greensboro as the city of the league’s founding will split time between there and Charlotte. The ACC announced future sites for 42 championships in 14 sports — […]

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2024 ACC Baseball Championship Returns to Charlotte

The 2024 ACC Baseball Championship will return to Truist Field in Charlotte from May 21­–26, the third time in four years the tournament will be played at the home of the Triple-A Charlotte Knights. “We are incredibly excited that the 2024 ACC Baseball Championship will return to the city of Charlotte, the new home of […]

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ACC Officially Raises Flags in New Home of Charlotte

The Atlantic Coast Conference officially announced its new home in Charlotte, raising the conference flag and flags of all 15 member institutions at a ceremony at the new office headquarters, Legacy Union’s Bank of America Tower in Uptown Charlotte. “It is a historical day for the ACC as we are welcomed to the Queen City,” […]

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Durham Bulls Athletic Park has played host to the ACC Baseball Championship 10 times previously, most recently in 2019.

ACC Baseball Championship Returning to Durham Bulls Athletic Park

The Atlantic Coast Conference and Durham Bulls have announced the ACC Baseball Championship will return to Durham Bulls Athletic Park in 2023. The 12-team tournament will be held next May 23–28. The city of Durham has hosted the ACC Baseball Championship 12 times previously, including seven of the past 13 tournaments. “There’s terrific excitement surrounding […]

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Atlantic Coast Conference to Move Headquarters to Charlotte

The Atlantic Coast Conference Board of Directors has announced that the conference office will relocate its headquarters to Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2023. The conference had numerous criteria which Charlotte met, including location within the Eastern Time zone, population size with positive growth trends, growth and diversity of population and access to a large hub […]

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San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl Moving to Petco Park

The Holiday Bowl in San Diego, played annually since 1978 until last year’s cancellation because of the pandemic, will be played in Petco Park starting in 2021 as part of a minimum five-year agreement. The official announcement was made Wednesday by the game’s organizers and the San Diego Padres. The 20201 game will be December […]

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A limited number of fans, seated according to COVID-19 restrictions requiring social distancing and masks, watch in the first half a college football game between LSU and Mississippi State in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on September 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

How Many Fans Will Be At College Football Games This Year?

Playing sports during the COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be tough when not in a bubble environment. It may be even more so for college football given the amount of traditional game-day experiences such as tailgating and team walks into the stadium. But the coronavirus has disrupted things significantly. While some schools are planning on […]

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In college towns across the country, the potential loss of football games will have a significant economic impact. Photo: Tony Ding/AP Images

College Football Towns Prepare to Call an Audible

Before you celebrate a touchdown with your friends and go crazy high-fiving strangers who feel like friends in that moment, you start with the tailgate party hours before kickoff with snacks, all sorts of food on the grill and a football flying through the air. Postgame usually means a drink downtown at a packed sports […]

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ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament Returns to Greensboro in 2023

Greensboro, North Carolina, which had been scheduled to host the 2020 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament before the event was canceled due to COVID-19, will get to host the event in 2023. ACC Commissioner John Swofford announced that the conference will return to the Greensboro Coliseum for what will be the 28th time for […]

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