2021 ACC Women’s Basketball Full Schedule
The 2021-22 women’s basketball league schedule was announced by the Atlantic Coast Conference on September 15. The conference slate begins Nov. 14 and runs through Feb. 27.
“We’re thrilled to announce our ACC women’s basketball conference schedule and look forward with great anticipation to this season,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “Our student-athletes continue to work extremely hard, and there’s no question the competition will continue to be second-to-none as they compete for conference and national championships. We appreciate our television partners working to ensure a record number of ACC women’s basketball games are broadcast this year.”
ACC women’s basketball will return to an 18-game conference schedule in 2021-22, after playing a 20-game league slate last season due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
All 135 ACC regular-season conference games will be available through the ESPN family of networks, including ACC Network, the conference’s Regional Sports Networks (RSN) or ACC Network Extra.
A league-record seventy-six regular-season games, including 59 conference games, are set to be televised by ACC Network and an additional nine games will air on other ESPN networks. New for this season, ACCN’s Sunday coverage includes five quadruple headers in addition to nine Thursday night doubleheaders.
Headlined by six Sunday afternoon doubleheaders and five Thursday evening doubleheaders, 24 league games will be broadcast on the ACC’s Regional Sports Networks (RSN). Bally Sports South, Bally Sports Florida, Bally Sports Sun, Bally Sports Midwest, Bally Sports Indiana, MASN, NESN and YES Network are the regional television partners (RSN) for this season.
The 2021-22 season tips off on Tuesday, Nov. 9 with 11 of the league’s teams in action.
Conference play begins on Sunday, Nov. 14 with Syracuse hosting Notre Dame on ACC Network, while NC State travels to Pitt on Friday, Dec. 10, and the Orange welcome Clemson on Saturday, Dec. 11. The first full date of league play is Sunday, Dec. 19 with six matchups on the slate.
The 2022 ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament will be held March 2-6 at Greensboro Coliseum for the 22nd time in the last 23 years.
As previously announced, two of the nation’s premier women’s basketball conferences will again square off for hardwood bragging rights, as the matchups for the 14th Big Ten/ACC Women’s Basketball Challenge are set. The Challenge takes place December 1-2, with each ACC home game to appear on ESPN Networks or RSN.
The ACC owns a 9-1-3 all-time advantage in the Challenge, headlined by three outright titles in the last four years the event has been held. Additionally, the ACC stands a collective 94-70 against the Big Ten in the Challenge.
Six ACC teams are listed among ESPN’s 2021-22 Way-Too-Early Top 25. No. 6 Louisville leads the way, followed by No. 8 NC State, No. 17 Florida State, No. 20 Georgia Tech, No. 23 Virginia Tech and No. 24 Notre Dame.
Eight ACC women’s basketball teams were selected to compete in the 2021 NCAA Tournament, which was the most of any conference. It marked the third consecutive NCAA Tournament in which the ACC has had eight teams selected, leading all conferences each year, and matching the ACC record for teams in the field (2014-15, 2018-19).
The ACC placed three teams in the Sweet 16 and is the only conference to have at least three teams in the regional semifinals in each of the last seven NCAA Tournaments.
ACC member institutions have won three NCAA Championships and made 24 trips to the Final Four. Seven different institutions have represented the ACC in the Women’s Final Four.
2021-22 ACC Women’s Basketball Conference Schedule
Sunday, November 14
Notre Dame at Syracuse, Noon, ACCN
Friday, December 10
NC State at Pitt, 6/7 p.m., ACCN
Saturday, December 11
Clemson at Syracuse, 6 p.m., ACCN
Sunday, December 19
Duke at Miami, Noon, ACCN
Virginia Tech at Florida State, 2 p.m., ACCN
Virginia at NC State, 4 p.m., ACCN
Wake Forest at Georgia Tech, 6 p.m., ACCN
North Carolina at Boston College
Pitt at Notre Dame
Thursday, December 30
Syracuse at North Carolina, 6 p.m., ACCN
Duke at Virginia Tech, 8 p.m., ACCN
Georgia Tech at Pitt
NC State at Clemson
Boston College at Louisville
Notre Dame at Virginia
Florida State at Wake Forest
Sunday, January 2
Louisville at Georgia Tech, Noon, ACCN
Miami at Virginia, 2 p.m., ACCN
Virginia Tech at Wake Forest, 4 p.m., ACCN
Clemson at North Carolina, 6 p.m., ACCN
Pitt at Boston College
Notre Dame at Duke
Florida State at Syracuse
Thursday, January 6
Clemson at Florida State, 6 p.m., ACCN
North Carolina at NC State, 8 p.m., ACCN
Syracuse at Boston College
Georgia Tech at Duke
Pitt at Louisville
Wake Forest at Miami
Virginia at Virginia Tech
Sunday, January 9
Louisville at Miami, Noon, ACCN
NC State at Notre Dame, 2 p.m., ACCN
Virginia at Georgia Tech, 4 p.m., ACCN
Virginia Tech at North Carolina, 6 p.m., ACCN
Boston College at Clemson, Noon, RSN
Duke at Syracuse, 2 p.m., RSN
Wake Forest at Florida State
Thursday, January 13
Virginia Tech at Duke, 6 p.m., ACCN
Florida State at Georgia Tech, 8 p.m., ACCN
Boston College at Pitt
Miami at Clemson
Syracuse at Louisville
NC State at Virginia
Notre Dame at Wake Forest
Sunday, January 16
Louisville at Boston College, Noon, ACCN
Georgia Tech at Miami, 2 p.m., ACCN
Duke at NC State, 4 p.m., ACCN
Clemson at Virginia Tech, 6 p.m., ACCN
North Carolina at Notre Dame, 1 p.m., RSN
Wake Forest at Pitt
Syracuse at Virginia
Thursday, January 20
Pitt at Virginia Tech, 6 p.m., ACCN
Louisville at NC State, 7:30 p.m., ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU
Georgia Tech at Syracuse, 8 p.m., ACCN
Notre Dame at Boston College, 6 p.m., RSN
Miami at Florida State, 8 p.m., RSN
Virginia at North Carolina
Clemson at Wake Forest
Sunday, January 23
North Carolina at Georgia Tech, Noon, ACCN
Wake Forest at Louisville, 2 p.m., ACCN
Virginia Tech at NC State, 4 p.m., ACCN
Virginia at Duke, 6 p.m., ACCN
Florida State at Clemson, Noon, RSN
Miami at Boston College, 2 p.m., RSN
Notre Dame at Pitt
Thursday, January 27
Syracuse at Notre Dame, 6 p.m., ACCN
Florida State at Louisville, 8 p.m., ACCN
Pitt at Clemson
North Carolina at Duke
Boston College at Georgia Tech
NC State at Miami
Virginia Tech at Virginia
Sunday, January 30
Boston College at Notre Dame, 2 p.m., ACCN
Georgia Tech at Clemson, 6 p.m., ACCN
Duke at Louisville, 12/4 p.m., ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU/ACCN
NC State at North Carolina, 12/4 p.m., ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU/ACCN
Pitt at Syracuse, 12/4 p.m., ACCN
Virginia at Florida State, Noon, RSN
Miami at Wake Forest, 2 p.m., RSN
Thursday, February 3
Florida State at NC State, 6 p.m., ACCN
Virginia Tech at Notre Dame, 8 p.m., ACCN
Louisville at Clemson, 6 p.m., RSN
North Carolina at Wake Forest, 8 p.m., RSN
Syracuse at Miami
Duke at Pitt
Virginia at Boston College
Sunday, February 6
Miami at North Carolina, Noon, ACCN
Notre Dame at Florida State, 2 p.m., ACCN
Clemson at Virginia, 4 p.m., ACCN
Wake Forest at Duke, 6 p.m., ACCN
Louisville at Syracuse, Noon, RSN
Boston College at Virginia Tech, 2 p.m., RSN
Monday, February 7
Georgia Tech at NC State (Play4Kay), 6 p.m., ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU
Thursday, February 10
Florida State at Duke, 6 p.m., ACCN
NC State at Boston College, 8 p.m., ACCN
Miami at Notre Dame, 6 p.m., RSN
Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech, 8 p.m., RSN
Wake Forest at Clemson
Virginia at Louisville
Pitt at North Carolina
Sunday, February 13
Florida State at Miami, Noon, ACCN
Syracuse at Pitt, 2 p.m., ACCN
Notre Dame at Louisville, 2 p.m., ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU
Virginia at Wake Forest, 4 p.m., ACCN
Clemson at Georgia Tech, Noon, RSN
NC State at Duke, 2 p.m., RSN
North Carolina at Virginia Tech
Thursday, February 17
Pitt at Miami, 6 p.m., ACCN
Notre Dame at Georgia Tech, 8 p.m., ACCN
Louisville at North Carolina, 6 p.m., RSN
Wake Forest at NC State, 8 p.m., RSN
Boston College at Florida State
Virginia Tech at Syracuse
Duke at Virginia
Sunday, February 20
Wake Forest at Boston College, Noon, ACCN
Virginia Tech at Louisville, 2 p.m., ACCN
Pitt at Virginia, 4 p.m., ACCN
North Carolina at Florida State, Noon, RSN
Syracuse at NC State, 2 p.m., RSN
Duke at Clemson
Miami at Georgia Tech
Thursday, February 24
Georgia Tech at Florida State, 6 p.m., ACCN
Clemson at Notre Dame, 8 p.m., ACCN
Boston College at Duke, 6 p.m., RSN
Miami at Virginia Tech, 8 p.m., RSN
Louisville at Pitt
North Carolina at Virginia
Syracuse at Wake Forest
Sunday, February 27
Boston College at Syracuse, Noon, ACCN
Florida State at Pitt, 2 p.m., ACCN
NC State at Virginia Tech, 6 p.m., ACCN
Clemson at Miami, 4:30 p.m., RSN
Duke at North Carolina, ESPN/ACCN
Louisville at Notre Dame, ESPN/ACCN
Georgia Tech at Wake Forest