Cal Athletes Must Travel to North Carolina for ACC Postseason Championships

Atlantic Coast Conference announces title sites for a number of sports, including basketball, over the next several years

Cal athletes will have to travel across the country to North Carolina for virtually all major Atlantic Coast Conference postseason championship events over the next several years.

Stanford and Cal agreed to 12-year memberships in the ACC starting with the 2024-25 academic year.

The ACC last week announced its postseason sites for half of its 28 sponsored sports, including basketball and baseball, for the next several years. All of those postseason events will be held in North Carolina cities, which are about 2,300 miles from Berkeley and will require a 4½-hour flight. That is more than twice the flight time for any current ACC school to North Carolina. This is in addition to coast-to-coast travel Golden Bears athletic teams will make during the regular season.

The ACC had announced previously that the conference championship football game will be played at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C., for at least the next seven years, from 2024 though 2030.

The ACC on Thursday announced that postseason championship events for men’s and women’s basketball, baseball, men’s and women’s soccer, gymnastics, swimming and diving, men’s and women’s tennis, rowing, lacrosse and women’s golf will be held at sites in North Carolina for the next several years.

Most of the postseason events will be held in Charlotte, Greensboro or Raleigh, with a few being held in Durham and Cary, both of which are just outside Raleigh, N.C.

The postseason schedules include sites for the upcoming 2024 postseason events, which will not include Cal or Stanford.

Future ACC Championships with Locations

ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament:
2025: Charlotte, Spectrum Center
2026: Charlotte, Spectrum Center
2027: Greensboro, Greensboro Coliseum
2028: Charlotte, Spectrum Center
2029: Greensboro, Greensboro Coliseum

ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament:
2024: Greensboro, Greensboro Coliseum 
2025: Greensboro, Greensboro Coliseum
2027: Charlotte, Spectrum Center

ACC Baseball Championship:
2024: Charlotte, Truist Field 
2025: Durham, Durham Bulls Athletic Park
2026: Charlotte, Truist Field
2027: Durham, Durham Bulls Athletic Park
2028: Charlotte, Truist Field
2029: Durham, Durham Bulls Athletic Park

ACC Gymnastics Championship:
2024: Greensboro, Greensboro Coliseum
2025: Greensboro, Greensboro Coliseum
2026: Greensboro, Greensboro Coliseum

ACC Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships:
2024: Greensboro, Greensboro Aquatic Center 
2025: Greensboro, Greensboro Aquatic Center
2027: Greensboro, Greensboro Aquatic Center
2028: Greensboro, Greensboro Aquatic Center
2029: Greensboro, Greensboro Aquatic Center

ACC Men’s Soccer and ACC Women’s Soccer Championships:
2024: Cary, WakeMed Soccer Park
2025: Cary, WakeMed Soccer Park
2026: Cary, WakeMed Soccer Park
2027: Cary, WakeMed Soccer Park
2028: Cary, WakeMed Soccer Park
2029: Cary, WakeMed Soccer Park

ACC Men’s & Women’s Lacrosse Championship:
2024: Charlotte, American Legion Memorial Stadium 
2025: Charlotte, American Legion Memorial Stadium
2026: Charlotte, American Legion Memorial Stadium
2027: Charlotte, American Legion Memorial Stadium
2028: Charlotte, American Legion Memorial Stadium

ACC Rowing Championship:
2024: Raleigh, Lake Wheeler Park 
2026: Raleigh, Lake Wheeler Park
2027: Raleigh, Lake Wheeler Park
2029: Raleigh, Lake Wheeler Park
2030: Raleigh, Lake Wheeler Park

ACC Men’s & Women’s Tennis Championships:
2024: Cary, Cary Tennis Park 
2025: Cary, Cary Tennis Park
2026: Cary, Cary Tennis Park
2027: Cary, Cary Tennis Park
2028: Cary, Cary Tennis Park
2029: Cary, Cary Tennis Park

ACC Women’s Golf Championship:
2024: Wilmington, Porters Neck Country Club 
2025: Greensboro, Sedgefield Country Club
2026: McConnell Golf Properties
2027: Greensboro, Sedgefield Country Club
2028: McConnell Golf Properties
2029: Greensboro, Sedgefield Country Club

(There are number of McConnell Golf Properties sites within North Carolina that could host the 2026 and 2028 women’s golf championships.)

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