I think the football scheduling for next year was relatively easy compared to what will have to be done for basketball. Has anyone heard anything about what the schedule will look like or will come out? Will we play every ACC team? Will the ACC do it in phases like they did for football?

I was at the game last night. It was a great win and great turnout.

Go Bears!

SonomanA1 said:

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I think the football scheduling for next year was relatively easy compared to what will have to be done for basketball. Has anyone heard anything about what the schedule will look like or will come out? Will we play every ACC team? Will the ACC do it in phases like they did for football?

I was at the game last night. It was a great win and great turnout.

Go Bears!

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It's a big question. I don't think the ACC wants to split into divisions or add more conference games. ACC currently plays 20 conference games, assuming Stanford and SMU are "permanent rivals" with home and home leaves 16 conference games, 8 on the East Coast.

I think the best way to handle it will be two seperate East Coast trips where we play 4 games each trip, with midweek games possibly only missing a week of school each trip.

Then of course it will be another trip back east for the ACC Tournament which will determine the ACC title. Hopefully the team is there for more than a game.

That is only three trips over three months. SMU is a single game with an easy flight to Dallas.

If more "permanent rivals" are needed for our pod, maybe Notre Dame and Louisville? It does seem like the ACC needs to add a "rival" for SMU. It would be great to poach someone from the B-12. Maybe Kansas or Arizona for the basketball?

There will be 18 ACC basketball teams. AFAIK the ACC will continue to play 20 conference games. Playing 3 ACC opponents twice and the other 14 once adds up to 20 conference games.

Assume that Cal plays Stanford and SMU twice every year and the third home/away opponent rotates every year. (I doubt the conference would include Notre Dame as a permanent home/away opponent for our Bears, because most of the conference wants home games vs. Notre Dame.) That means 8 of the 15 "eastern" teams play in Berkeley each year.

Cal and Stanford will each have 9 conference road games outside the Bay Area, so 3 trips of 3 games each would take care of the ACC road games. Ideally, Cal would have one such road trip between the end of fall semester and the start of spring semester.

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BearSD said:

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There will be 18 ACC basketball teams. AFAIK the ACC will continue to play 20 conference games. Playing 3 ACC opponents twice and the other 14 once adds up to 20 conference games.

Assume that Cal plays Stanford and SMU twice every year and the third home/away opponent rotates every year. (I doubt the conference would include Notre Dame as a permanent home/away opponent for our Bears, because most of the conference wants home games vs. Notre Dame.) That means 8 of the 15 "eastern" teams play in Berkeley each year.

Cal and Stanford will each have 9 conference road games outside the Bay Area, so 3 trips of 3 games each would take care of the ACC road games. Ideally, Cal would have one such road trip between the end of fall semester and the start of spring semester.

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Interesting.

Do you think the other ACC teams care that much about Notre Dame basketball? I'd think Duke and Carolina, even Louisville and Syracuse, would be bigger draws?

Three road games would include a midweek game?

calumnus said:

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Three road games would include a midweek game?

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Probably Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 9 AM Eastern.

calumnus said:

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BearSD said:

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There will be 18 ACC basketball teams. AFAIK the ACC will continue to play 20 conference games. Playing 3 ACC opponents twice and the other 14 once adds up to 20 conference games.

Assume that Cal plays Stanford and SMU twice every year and the third home/away opponent rotates every year. (I doubt the conference would include Notre Dame as a permanent home/away opponent for our Bears, because most of the conference wants home games vs. Notre Dame.) That means 8 of the 15 "eastern" teams play in Berkeley each year.

Cal and Stanford will each have 9 conference road games outside the Bay Area, so 3 trips of 3 games each would take care of the ACC road games. Ideally, Cal would have one such road trip between the end of fall semester and the start of spring semester.

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Interesting.

Do you think the other ACC teams care that much about Notre Dame basketball? I'd think Duke and Carolina, even Louisville and Syracuse, would be bigger draws?

Three road games would include a midweek game?

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Duke and UNC are the biggest draws for the southern teams, for sure. ND might be as big a draw at Pitt, BC, and Syracuse. But only three teams can get home-and-away with Duke and UNC every year, and it might be that the four North Carolina teams are assigned as permanent home-and-away rivals, meaning that everyone else gets home games with Duke and UNC only once every two years.

So if you are Pitt, BC, or Cuse, and also maybe GT, Louisville, and Miami, and you can only get Duke and UNC once every two years, you might not want to see the three new ACC members be guaranteed annual visits from Notre Dame. They might feel kind of like the PNW teams did when Tennis Larry gave the newest members of the Pac-12 annual football games with USC and UCLA.

Probably just as well for us that we play Duke and UNC on a limited basis.

Whatever it will be, I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be fun

It's what we have, and basketball is fun, so it will be fun.

stu said:

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It's what we have, and basketball is fun, so it will be fun.

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For me, it's more than that. The ACC is a great basketball conference. The schools are iconic. The PAC-12 is now boring to me. I'm ready to move on.

Good point. I've heard WSU and OSU and ASU called a number of things but not "iconic".

stu said:

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Good point. I've heard WSU and OSU and ASU called a number of things but not "iconic".

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Compare the top half of the standings:

1. Arizona
2. Oregon
3. Colorado
4. WSU
5. ASU
6 Stanford

1. Carolina
2. Duke
3. Virginia
4. Florida State
5. Wake
6. NC State
7. Miami
8. Syracuse

Will we play any former Pac 12 teams?

SonomanA1 said:

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Will we play any former Pac 12 teams?

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There are a few of them I would never like to play again.

Never see again:
The Arizonas (esp Zona fans)

Would like a regular "nonconference rivalry" series every year:
The SoCal schools.

Problem is that you usually want a cushy nonconference sched to build cobfidence and roll over a few patsies. But USC-UCLA wouldn't be that.

barsad said:

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Never see again:
The Arizonas (esp Zona fans)

Would like a regular "nonconference rivalry" series every year:
The SoCal schools.

Problem is that you usually want a cushy nonconference sched to build cobfidence and roll over a few patsies. But USC-UCLA wouldn't be that.

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I'll hard pass on USC for the next few decades.

And Oregon too while we're at it.