DURHAM, N.C. – Duke will be featured 10 times on the ACC Network this fall across the four Olympic Sports in the fall sports broadcast schedule announced Tuesday by ESPN. Overall, ACC Network will televise 72 regular season contests in the sports of field hockey, men's soccer, women's soccer and volleyball.
ACC Network Extra (ACCNX), the network's digital arm available on the ESPN app, will carry more than 200 ACC events. Duke's regular season home contests not selected for ACC Network will be broadcast on ACCNX, which is accessible via the ESPN app or ESPN.com/watch.
The Blue Devils make their 2021 TV debut Sunday, Sept. 5 when field hockey welcomes Maryland at 2 p.m. Head coach
Pam Bustin's squad will also be nationally televised Friday, Oct. 22 at Boston College.
Robbie Church and the women's soccer team will first appear on the network Sunday, Sept. 26 at Virginia Tech before three more showings while you can catch men's soccer and
John Kerr at North Carolina on Sunday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. Duke volleyball head coach
Jolene Nagel and her squad will be televised three times starting with Sunday, Oct. 3 at Virginia.
Owned and operated by ESPN in partnership with the Atlantic Coast Conference
, ACC Network (ACCN) and its digital platform ACCNX is a 24/7 national network dedicated to ACC sports that launched on August 22, 2019. ACCN televises more than 500 regular-season and tournament games from across the conference's 27 sponsored sports plus a complement of news and information shows and original programming. Together, ACCN and its digital platform, ACCNX, combine to feature more than 1,500 ACC events each year. ESPN has been televising ACC content since 1979 and has exclusive rights to every conference-controlled game across all sports and championships.
Carriage agreements are in place with the following video providers: AT&T TV, Cox, DIRECTV, DISH Network, fuboTV, Google Fiber, Hulu+ Live TV, Mediacom, Optimum, Sling TV, Spectrum TV, Suddenlink, Verizon Fios, YouTube TV, members of the NCTC, NRTC and Vivicast, among others. All ACCN games will also be available on the ESPN app to authenticated subscribers. Fans interested in learning more about ACCN can visit
www.GetACCN.com.
The full schedule is below.
| Sport |
Date |
Away |
Home |
Time |
Network |
| FH |
Sunday, September 5 |
Maryland |
Duke |
2 p.m. |
ACCN |
| FH |
Friday, October 22 |
Duke |
Boston College |
5 p.m. |
ACCN |
| MSOC |
Sunday, September 19 |
Duke |
North Carolina |
7 p.m. |
ACCN |
| WSOC |
Sunday, September 26 |
Duke |
Virginia Tech |
5 p.m. |
ACCN |
| WSOC |
Thursday, October 7 |
NC State |
Duke |
6 p.m. |
ACCN |
| WSOC |
Sunday, October 24 |
Florida State |
Duke |
2 p.m. |
ACCN |
| WSOC |
Thursday, October 28 |
Duke |
Louisville |
5 p.m. |
ACCN |
| VB |
Sunday, October 3 |
Duke |
Virginia |
3 p.m. |
ACCN |
| VB |
Sunday, October 24 |
Duke |
NC State |
4 p.m. |
ACCN |
| VB |
Friday, October 29 |
Notre Dame |
Duke |
5 p.m. |
ACCN |
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