Schedule Building In The ACC

When team schedules are revealed prior to the season observers tend to scan them, then move on. Periodic check-ins to view the path ahead occur from time to time as league play commences and the possibility of a squad’s NCAA inclusion becomes clear.

But before we get too far down the road, it’s instructive to compare ACC schedules and how they’re constructed.

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Boston College, trying to make a good impression under new coach Luke Murray, starts the season with three home games out of four, the exception a meeting with UMass at neutral TD Garden, the Boston Celtics’ arena. Two of the following three games are at Conte Forum, with a third high-level local meeting at Harvard. (Tommy Amaker’s Crimson are at Duke on Dec.4.)

Then, for a month from Dec. 5 to Jan.5, the Eagles roost at home for a generous seven contests, the last of the lot North Carolina and Clemson, both tough tests. We should know a lot more about BC by the end of that run, which is exceeded in length only by those at UNC and Notre Dame, which each enjoy a league-high nine consecutive home games in the season’s early going.

Another new ACC coach, Scott Cross, loaded Georgia Tech with a handsome 19 home games, including eight in a row to start the season. The opener, a 75-55 victory over Hampton, ended the ACC’s longest ongoing losing streak – inherited from Damon Stoudamire, at 12 straight.

Only Notre Dame, Pitt, and the travel-challenged western trio of Cal, Southern Methodist and Stanford hang at home with similar avidity.

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Cal actually opens with 14 straight on friendly courts, counting a matchup with Houston just over the state line in Lake Tahoe, Nevada. Presumably fortified with success, the Golden Bears venture to Chapel Hill on Dec. 30. Three days later they head to Durham to face Duke, completing their season’s series with the bluebloods.

As usual, the Blue Devils take their high-powered show on the road more than most, with a modest 16 games at Cameron. Remarkably, the Blue Devils…

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