By Marty Gordon
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) will maintain a 20-game conference schedule beginning next year.
The announcement came late last week and had been a head scratcher as the conference adds Cal, SMU and Stanford to the overall membership.
“As the 2023-24 ACC women’s and men’s basketball regular-season competition continues and our teams look ahead to the postseason, we are thrilled to announce each school’s opponents for our first year as an 18-member league,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “We look forward to having Cal, SMU and Stanford join the ACC this summer and we know there’s already great excitement and anticipation for our teams, alumni and fans for what’s ahead surrounding this incredible conference.”
Now, each school will play two games home and away versus its two current partners. In the case of Virginia Tech, those two partners would be Miami and Virginia.
The men’s schedule will then include one repeat opponent, home and away. Tech will then play one of the remaining 15 teams in a year. For the next two years for Tech, Clemson would be the opponent. The remaining 14 league opponents will be seven home only and seven away only.
Below is a breakdown of Tech’s scheduling matrix for the 2024-25 season. The full conference schedule with specific game dates, times and networks will be announced early this fall.
For 2024-25, Virginia Tech’s opponent line up this way:
Home/Away: Clemson, Miami, Virginia
Home only: Louisville, North Carolina, NC State, Pitt, SMU, Syracuse, Wake Forest
Away only: Boston College, Cal, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Stanford
On the women’s side, under the new format, each school will play 18 league games, but only have one partners they play twice with one time apiece at each school. For Tech, the partner is the University of Virginia.
For the next two years, Virginia Tech’s women’s opponents line up this way:
2024-25
Home – Cal, Stanford, SMU, Florida State, Wake, Louisville, Notre Dame, Syracuse
Away – Pitt, Miami, Clemson, Georgia Tech, NC State, North Carolina, Duke, Boston College
Partner – Virginia
2025-26
Home – Pitt, Miami, Clemson, Georgia Tech, NC State, North Carolina, Duke, Boston College
Away – Cal, Stanford, SMU, Florida State, Wake, Louisville, Notre Dame, Syracuse
Partner – Virginia
As previously announced by the league, the ACC men’s and women’s basketball tournaments will include only the top 15 teams at the end of the 2024-25 regular season. The 2025 ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament will be contested March 11-15 at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.
