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The ACC Men's Tourney Will Return To NC...Eventually

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Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner John Swofford announced on Thursday that the league's men's basketball tournament will come back to North Carolina after a few years away:

  • Charlotte will host the tournament in 2019. 
  • Greensboro will see the event return in 2020. 

(Earlier, the ACC announced it will take the men's tournament to Brooklyn's Barclays Center for two years.)  
Swofford says new membership has mandated a broader reach.

"We have different opportunities in front of us than we've ever had before because of the expanded league and the expanded footprint," Swofford says.   "What our athletic directors have really worked toward doing is to connect the traditional and the past and the great history that this great tournament has with the present make-up of the league."

After another tournament in Greensboro next season, the 2016 men's tournament will be played in Washington, D.C followed by two years in New York.  The three years away will mark the longest stretch ever for the event outside of North Carolina.   

The announcement will not affect the ladies' post-season NCAA Tournament qualifier.  Greensboro will continue to host the ACC women's basketball tournament as it has for the last 15 years.

Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.
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