Local basketball fans who like electronic calendars rejoice! I’ve uploaded the 2008-2009 UNC, NCSU, and complete ACC basketball schedules in .CSV, .ICS, and Google Calendar formats.

Outlook/Palm Users

• Create a new folder in your in Outlook calendar (Bball08, for example). Use the File | Import and Export… to import from “another program or file”, then “Comma Separated File (Windows)”. This will set up the schedule in your new sub-calendar where you can make whatever changes you want.
• iPhone Users – You are done. Now you can view the basketball schedules as their own sub-calender or as a part of all calendars.
• When you are happy with the way the subcalendar looks, change the calendar view to “Events” (instead of 7-day or 31-Day or whatever view you’re using). “Select All” from the list, and drag them over to your main “Calendar” (The Treo and other Palm Handhelds only sync to the main calendar – time for Palm to get with the program on that one!). If you want to keep your sub-calendar intact, use Ctrl-drag instead of plain drag. That will create a copy of each event to the main Calendar and keep the Bball08 calendar in place. Sync your handheld to copy the events to the handheld.
• CSV Files. (right click on the link and “Save As…”)
  • UNC – Download uncbball09_20080826.csv (version: 8/26/08)
  • NCSU – Download ncsubball09_20080826.csv (version: 8/26/08)
  • ACC COMPLETE – Download accbball09_20080827.csv (version: 8/27/08)

iCal Users

There are two options:

• Use iCalTextImport to import the .CSV version (linked above) of the schedule.
• Download the .ics files and import them into iCal.
  • UNC – .ics file (version: 8/26/08)
  • NCSU – .ics file (version: 8/26/08)
  • ACC COMPLETE – .ics file (version: 8/26/08)

Google Calendar Users

Consult the public calendars at the following locations:

• UNC Google Calendar
• NCSU Google Calendar
• ACC COMPLETE Google Calendar

Notes

Calendars are apt to change, so check back occasionally for updates. To determine the version of your schedule, open the note associated with any event, and look for the version number. If your calendar is older than those listed above, simply delete the events in Outlook in your old one and import the events of the newer file. Google Calendar is dynamically up-to-date.

Use at your own risk. I do not accept responsibility for any consequences resulting from errors in the schedule.