With the conference games coming up, we have an 18 game schedule (9 home, 9 away.)
In the 18 team ACC we play our natural rival (furd) twice. That leaves the other 16 teams. Logic says we would play every other team once. But we play Georgia Tech twice, and miss NC State. I might have missed it, but what is the ACC reasoning on this one?

I believe it is to minimize travel for the og acc teams in some way.

Didn't notice that.

GTech being the weakest ACC team on the NET rankings, at #190, vs #31 for NCSt, this might help us a bit, provided of course we manage to sweep Tech. If we do this and also sweep Furd, we would only need to go 6-8 with the rest of the field to end up with a 10-8 winning ACC record, and an impressive 22-9 overall. This being said Frud looks decent this year at 10-2 and #74 NET so it won't be a cakewalk.

The ACC does do a good job of minimizing travel, bundling road trips into geographically close pairs the same way the P10 did, for example we play at UVA and at VTech 3 days apart. FSU/Miami, BC/Cuse and GTech/WF are the other bundled road trips.

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Didn't notice that.

GTech being the weakest ACC team on the NET rankings, at #190, vs #31 for NCSt, this might help us a bit, provided of course we manage to sweep Tech. If we do this and also sweep Furd, we would only need to go 6-8 with the rest of the field to end up with a 10-8 winning ACC record, and an impressive 22-9 overall. This being said Frud looks decent this year at 10-2 and #74 NET so it won't be a cakewalk.

The ACC does do a good job of minimizing travel, bundling road trips into geographically close pairs the same way the P10 did, for example we play at UVA and at VTech 3 days apart. FSU/Miami, BC/Cuse and GTech/WF are the other bundled road trips.

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IIRC, for March Madness consideration, it's more about how a team played against "A" teams (with more points for winning on the road than at home) and how it played against "B" and "C" teams* than it is about overall record.

*Losing to the latter two level of teams at home will pretty much sink a team on the bubble.

This very much feels like one game at a time season. Lets see hkw they look agains louiseville and nd. What is the statusbif the cardinals good guard?