ACC’s brand-new 18-game hoops slate: No Duke-Miami

May 28, 2025, 08:23 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C.– Instate enemies North Carolina and NC State will satisfy simply as soon as next season while Duke won’t play the Miami group now coached by former Blue Devils assistant Jai Lucas in the Atlantic Coast Conference’s reconfigured scheduling model.The ACC revealed its second set of home-and-away partners Wednesday after announcing earlier this month that it would cut a 20-game males’s basketball schedule to 18 as part of its efforts to enhance the sport amid recent years of decreasing NCAA competition bids.Editor’s Picks The league had actually formerly revealed main partners guaranteeing yearly home-and-away

matches to create some protection for long-running series, such as famous rivals Duke and UNC or instate opponents Virginia and Virginia Tech. The 2nd set of partners will change every year, while groups will play one game versus 14 of the remaining 15 groups and miss playing one league school each year.The league’s secondary partners for 2025-26: Boston College-Miami, California-Georgia Tech, Clemson-Pittsburgh, Duke-Louisville, Florida State-SMU, UNC-Syracuse, NC 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 exact same area code, however the only match this season will come on the Wolfpack’s

home court in Raleigh. That will mark the very first time UNC will not have a home game versus NC State considering that 1919 after a long history of playing two times per year.