ACC’s new men’s basketball scheduling model produces one NC State-UNC meeting, no Duke-Miami matchup
CHARLOTTE N C AP Instate foes North Carolina and N C State will meet just once next year while Duke won t play the Miami squad now coached by former Blue Devils assistant Jai Lucas in the Atlantic Coast Conference s reconfigured scheduling model The ACC broadcasted its second set of home-and-away partners Wednesday after announcing earlier this month that it would cut a -game men s basketball schedule to as part of its efforts to boost the sport amid new years of dwindling NCAA Tournament bids The league had previously declared primary partners guaranteeing annual home-and-away matchups to create specific protection for long-running series such as famed rivals Duke and UNC or instate opponents Virginia and Virginia Tech The second set of partners will change every year while teams will play one contest against of the remaining teams and miss playing one league school each year The league s secondary partners for - Boston College-Miami California-Georgia Tech Clemson-Pittsburgh Duke-Louisville Florida State-SMU UNC-Syracuse N C State-Virginia Notre Dame-Stanford and Virginia Tech-Wake Forest As for the Tar Heels and Wolfpack they re separated by about a half-hour drive within the same area code but the lone matchup this year will come on the Wolfpack s home court in Raleigh That will mark the first time UNC won t have a home encounter against N C State since after a long history of playing twice per year AP college basketball https apnews com hub ap-top- -college-basketball-poll and https apnews com hub college-basketball Source
