February 21, 1999

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C - The Wake Forest women's basketball team earned the eighth seed in the 1999 Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Basketball Tournament via coin toss and will face seventh-seeded Maryland in the first round on Friday, February 26, at 6:00 pm at Independence Arena in Charlotte, N.C.

The Demon Deacons finished the regular season at 7-19 overall and 3-13 in the ACC to tie for seventh place in the standings with Maryland (6-20, 3-13). Although the two teams would face each other anyway in the 7/8 game, a tiebreaking procedure was used to determine which team would be No. 7 and which would be No. 8. The two teams split their regular-season meetings and owned identical records against the other conference teams, so a coin toss was employed, which Maryland won. The Wake Forest-Maryland winner will face No. 2 Virginia in the quarterfinals on Saturday at 3:30 pm.

The complete ACC Women's Basketball Tournament seedings and schedule:

FIRST ROUND - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Game 1  No. 7  Maryland vs. No. 8  Wake Forest        6:00 pm
Game 2  No. 1  Duke     vs. No. 9  Florida State      8:00 pm

Game 3  No. 4  Clemson        vs. No. 5  NC State     1:00 pm
Game 4  No. 2. Virginia       vs. Game 1 Winner       3:30 pm
Game 5  No. 3  North Carolina vs. No. 6  Georgia Tech 6:00 pm

Game 6  Game 2 Winner vs. Game 3 Winner               1:00 pm
Game 7  Game 4 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner               3:30 pm

Game 8  Game 6 Winner vs. Game 7 Winner               8:00 pm