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How can you tell who is good in ACC basketball this season?
The 2025-26 conference opponents were released this week with the league looking less like we ever remember it. I loved the old eight-team ACC when everybody played home-and-home against the others.
Around here, there was the sold-out early season Big Four tournament at the Greensboro Coliseum, where the ACC tournament was usually played before expansion ruined almost all the symmetry. Yes, the ACC cut its conference schedule to 18 games, ostensibly to provide more chances to schedule important non-conference opponents early in the season along with the slate of cupcakes to build Ws.
For the last two years, there have been three home-and-homes and seven opponents at home and seven on the road to make 20 games. The 7 & 7 are still there, but now there are only 2 home-and-homes.
In the new schedule, each gets a permanent partner and one other rotating opponent they play at home and on the road. For Carolina and Duke, that is the blueblood rivalry and the Heels’ other is Syracuse. The result is that N.C. State won’t play in Chapel Hill for the first time since 1919. Their one game this season is in Raleigh.
UNC’s seven home games are versus Clemson, FSU, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pitt, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, which seems good since those opponents have been in the ACC’s upper half lately.
The Tar Heels will play games at Cal, Georgia Tech, Miami, State, SMU, Stanford and Virginia, and that doesn’t seem as daunting as the above seven would be away from home.
With the transfer portal taking over college basketball, who knows the really good, average or pretty bad teams until we see them in person or on TV?
Of the top 20 portal classes for 2025-26, only two are from the ACC – No. 3 Louisville and the No. 13 Wolfpack, each with one 5-star. The Cardinals, who finished second last year, signed only three transfers. State signed seven under new coach Will Wade, who is still trying to get Ven-Allen Lubin to defect from UNC.
Carolina has the No. 22 transfer class with seven and Miami is 23rd with four newcomers, neither with a 5-star signee. Clemson is No. 28, Syracuse No. 33 and Wake Forest No. 37, all with only 4-stars or 3-stars. The rest of the ACC is 40 and higher.
Duke is Duke with another loaded freshman class coming in and several returnees from its Final Four team. The Tar Heels should be bigger, if not better, even without Lubin, and their question mark is who will play point guard among Seth Trimble, one transfer and two true freshmen.
The top transfer class is at St. John’s, where Rick Pitino lost three of his top players and says he cannot replace them with freshmen so he didn’t recruit any. His one 5-star signee is Ian Jackson, who is going home to play.
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Art Chansky is a veteran journalist who has written ten books, including best-sellers “Game Changers,” “Blue Bloods,” and “The Dean’s List.” He has contributed to WCHL for decades, having made his first appearance as a student in 1971. His “Sports Notebook” commentary airs daily on the 97.9 The Hill WCHL and his “Art’s Angle” opinion column runs weekly on Chapelboro.Chapelboro.com does not charge subscription fees, and you can directly support our efforts in local journalism here. Want more of what you see on Chapelboro? Let us bring free local news and community information to you by signing up for our newsletter.
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