The ACC has been dragging behind in television revenue compared to its Power Five conference cohorts, but that is about to change. The conference announced a deal with ESPN starting in 2019 that will see the launch of the ACC Network. While that might football a little bit, it's likely to have a much larger impact on other sports including basketball.
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With the expansion of the conference's coverage comes an expansion in the league schedule for basketball.
While it's unlikely that we get UNC-Duke three times a year, we should see plenty of great basketball played in the country's best basketball conference. This may also mean less "buy" games where teams schedule high D-II or lower D-I teams to play at the beginning of the season as a "warm up" for the real season. Hopefully our wildest dreams come true and we get all the best basketball coverage we could ever want.
