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Message: [QUOTE="WickedOrange, post: 683380, member: 915"] [I][SIZE=5]ACC continues to explore tournament in New York[/SIZE][/I] [I]Nicole Auerbach, USA TODAY Sports 5:41 p.m. EDT July 1, 2013[/I] [I]NEW YORK — Atlantic Coast Conference officials were clear why they chose New York City as the location for the official kickoff event for their new-look, 15-team league.[/I] [I]"This is a very prominent city from a media standpoint, from a sports standpoint," ACC commissioner John Swofford said Monday. "It has not been in our footprint in our past, but it is now, as of today. We want to treat it with the appropriate level of importance we think it has."[/I] [I]With the ACC officially adding Syracuse and Pittsburgh in all sports and Notre Dame in all sports but football, the league is making it a priority to make its presence felt in New York City.[/I] [I]The next step? Playing in New York City. Ideally for the ACC tournament.[/I] [I]"If you're going to be the best basketball conference, you have to rotate through New York City," Notre Dame men's basketball coach Mike Brey said. "I will be confident that we'll get through here. I don't know how long. Obviously, we're in Greensboro, (N.C.) for two more years. But I think it's something that's going to have to happen given how this league has changed as of today."[/I] [I]Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim, Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer, former Pitt football All-American Larry Fitzgerald, ACC commissioner John Swofford, Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher, and Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey attend the ACC press conference at the Nasdaq Marketsite.(Photo: Debby Wong, USA TODAY Sports)[/I] [I]There are a few roadblocks to the ACC fulfilling its desire of holding its postseason tournament in NYC: the two arenas are already spoken for. The Big East will continue to host its postseason tournament at Madison Square Garden, and the Atlantic 10 will remain at the Brooklyn's Barclays Center, which opened last year, through 2017.[/I] [I]So, even if the ACC schools decide they'd like to rotate the postseason basketball tournament through New York City, it may not be for awhile.[/I] [I]"We've been having this discussion for over a year now, and it's been a very thorough one," Swofford said. "There are still what I would call venue availability questions that we don't have answers for yet. As soon as we have those answers, the sooner our schools can make a decision. (The decision) needs to be made reasonably soon because you've got to be reserving arenas, and maybe in terms of the timing, you've also got to be reserving hotel space."[/I] [I]Whenever talk of changing the tournament's site has come up during the past few months, ACC officials agreed on one point. It remain likely that the ACC will continue to adhere to the philosophy it has relied on with its tournament all these years: Greensboro will host most of the tournaments, but every few years, the event will bounce out to another area within the ACC footprint. Greensboro is where the conference was founded, and it remains home to the league office. [B]So even if New York is chosen to host the tournament, it would likely be one of the "bounce out" sites – to "rotate through," as Brey said – not a mainstay.[/B][/I] [url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/acc/2013/07/01/tournament-new-york-city/2480831/[/url] [/QUOTE]

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