ACC basketball schedule for 14 teams...

by NattyBoAndOldBay on Oct 5, 2011 10:23 PM EDT

Right now with a 12-team league and 16 game conference round-robin schedule each team has 2 partners and then 3 rotating groups of 3 teams. Each year a team plays it's 2 partners home-away, and then there are the rotating groups of 3 teams home-away, 3 teams only home and 3 teams only away.

When the conference expands to 14-teams next year things may look very different. I think keeping a conference round-robin is a MUST! At the same time I don't want 20 conference games. There is a way to keep the format already in place and only increase the conference schedule to 18 games...

Each team will now have 3 partners (keep existing rivalries and now can expand to accommodate new ones)... then five groups of 2 teams that will rotate each year. One group will be played home-away, two groups (4 teams) just home and two groups just away. And these groups of 2 will rotate each year.

Here is a table of the current 2 partner system that has been used for 4 years and MY idea of the best 3rd partner for each team if the ACC adopted this system (Bolded)

Boston College	Miami	Virginia Tech	Syracuse
Clemson	Georgia Tech	Florida St	Miami
Duke	North Carolina	Maryland	NCST
Florida St	Clemson	Miami	Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech	Clemson	Wake Forest	Florida St
Maryland	Duke	Virginia	Pittsburgh
Miami	Boston College	Florida St	Clemson
North Carolina	Duke	NCST	Wake Forest
NCST	North Carolina	Wake Forest	Duke
Pittsburgh	Syracuse	Maryland	Virginia Tech
Syracuse	Pittsburgh	Boston College	Virginia
Virginia	Maryland	Virginia Tech	Syracuse
Virginia Tech	Boston College	Pittsburgh	Virginia
Wake Forest	Georgia Tech	NCST	North Carolina

For this I tried to be non-bias and think what the conference and teams would want... So I put the Carolina schools together, gave BC a northern neighbor and promoted a boarder rivalry between Maryland and Pittsburgh (even though I would rather have Maryland and Syracuse)

How do you like this schedule and my predicted 3rd annual home-away partner for each school?

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Our third partner

should be ’Cuse…in a landslide.

by wittcap79 on Oct 6, 2011 9:56 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs

looks like we'll get our wish...

after news came out that BC blocked UConn’s entrance into the ACC… Boston College’s AD went on to say that it has a history with Pitt and looks forward to regaining that.

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by NattyBoAndOldBay on Oct 9, 2011 7:20 PM EDT up reply actions

i’m for any schedule that lets us keep a home and home against duke. after all what better way to whoo a kid than to bring him in for a MD-Duke game at the rocking comcast centre.

by SteelTerp42 on Oct 8, 2011 7:46 AM EDT reply actions

I think they should have more partners

They could also form a schedule with each team having five partners instead of three.

It would still be an 18-game schedule (same as a 3 -partner system) but you’d play the non-partners once a year “permanently” as opposed to occasionally twice a year (once every 5 years).

Realistically, how much of a difference is 5 games in 5 years vs. 6 games in 5 years?

Assumption is the mother of all @#%-ups.

by mdak06 on Oct 9, 2011 9:20 PM EDT reply actions