{"id":5938,"date":"2013-08-07T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5938"},"modified":"2013-08-07T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T01:00:40","slug":"unc-duke-to-play-a-total-of-five-times-on-espn-big-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5938","title":{"rendered":"UNC, Duke to play a total of five times on ESPN Big Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/espnbigmonday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/espnbigmonday.jpg\" alt=\"espnbigmonday\" width=\"188\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5939\" \/><\/a>Not sure I&#8217;m ready for college basketball to join the likes of Monday Night Football. Like most people, I look forward to the weekend and like older ACC fans, look forward to Saturday afternoon games &#8211; not Monday night affairs. At least the games will start at 7 pm rather than 9 pm.<\/p>\n<p>The University of North Carolina men&#8217;s basketball team will play three times on ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;Big Monday&#8221; broadcasts, including UNC&#8217;s first-ever Atlantic Coast Conference home game against conference newcomer Notre Dame. Duke plays twice.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN will broadcast ACC games on eight consecutive Mondays beginning on January 13, 2014. Each game will tip off at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina will play on &#8220;Big Monday&#8221; on January 20th at Virginia, February 17th at Florida State and March 3rd in Chapel Hill against the Fighting Irish.<\/p>\n<p>UNC and Notre Dame are meeting for the first time since the 2008 Maui Invitational championship game.<\/p>\n<p>The complete Big Monday lineup includes:<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 13 &#8211; Virginia at Duke<br \/>\nJan. 20 &#8211; North Carolina at Virginia<br \/>\nJan. 27 \u00ad- Duke at Pittsburgh<br \/>\nFeb. 3 &#8211; Notre Dame at Syracuse<br \/>\nFeb. 10 &#8211; Maryland at Virginia<br \/>\nFeb. 17 &#8211; North Carolina at Florida State<br \/>\nFeb. 24 &#8211; Syracuse at Maryland<br \/>\nMarch 3 &#8211; Notre Dame at North Carolina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure I&#8217;m ready for college basketball to join the likes of Monday Night Football. Like most people, I look forward to the weekend and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-82-id","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5940,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/5940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}