Horatio
08-18-2004, 09:02 PM
The ACC, a stellar basketball conference, has perpetrated a travesty on basketball...for the coin of the realm...to bring in more better dollars from football. To get the felonious Miami program and a dubious Va Tech football program, it lets Carolina play N.C. State once next year?? For those that worship money, no problem...for those that know and like ACC basketball, this truly sucks...
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GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The basketball schedule for the expanded Atlantic Coast Conference lacks some of the traditional series between long-standing rivals.
The upcoming season will be the first for the ACC as an 11-team league. Miami and Virginia Tech officially joined the conference in July, but the league will keep a 16-game conference schedule. That means each team will play home-and-home series with six conference opponents, and just one game against four.
As a result, some traditional rivals will play only once this season. Duke and North Carolina State, which have played two regular-season games every season since 1911-12, meet once, on Jan. 13 in Raleigh.
Meanwhile, North Carolina will meet Wake Forest and Georgia Tech once each. Wake Forest and North Carolina will not play in Chapel Hill for the first time since the 1943-44 season, with their only meeting coming Jan. 15 in Winston-Salem.
The Tar Heels host Georgia Tech on Jan. 12, and will not play in Atlanta for the first time since 1978-79.
Last season, six ACC teams earned NCAA tournament berths. Two of those teams, Georgia Tech and Duke, reached the Final Four, with the Yellow Jackets losing to Connecticut in the national championship game.
ACC teams went 14-6 in the NCAA tournament, and the ACC became the first conference in tournament history to have five teams seeded fourth or better.
:puke: :puke: :puke:
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- The basketball schedule for the expanded Atlantic Coast Conference lacks some of the traditional series between long-standing rivals.
The upcoming season will be the first for the ACC as an 11-team league. Miami and Virginia Tech officially joined the conference in July, but the league will keep a 16-game conference schedule. That means each team will play home-and-home series with six conference opponents, and just one game against four.
As a result, some traditional rivals will play only once this season. Duke and North Carolina State, which have played two regular-season games every season since 1911-12, meet once, on Jan. 13 in Raleigh.
Meanwhile, North Carolina will meet Wake Forest and Georgia Tech once each. Wake Forest and North Carolina will not play in Chapel Hill for the first time since the 1943-44 season, with their only meeting coming Jan. 15 in Winston-Salem.
The Tar Heels host Georgia Tech on Jan. 12, and will not play in Atlanta for the first time since 1978-79.
Last season, six ACC teams earned NCAA tournament berths. Two of those teams, Georgia Tech and Duke, reached the Final Four, with the Yellow Jackets losing to Connecticut in the national championship game.
ACC teams went 14-6 in the NCAA tournament, and the ACC became the first conference in tournament history to have five teams seeded fourth or better.