ACC releases matchups for 2016-17 and 2017-18

[Chris Peak]

From Pitt:

The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced the 18-game conference matchups for each of its 15 men’s basketball teams for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons. Pitt retains its permanent partners Louisville and Syracuse while adding home and home tilts with North Carolina and Virginia next season and Duke and Miami in 2017-18.

“Even while we are in the exciting stretch run of our current season, it’s intriguing to look ahead to the next two-years which will again feature highly anticipated matchups and rivalries,” said ACC Commissioner John Swofford.

The matchups released today designate the 18-game home and away opponents for each of the next two seasons. Specific game dates, times and networks have not yet been determined.

Along with the home and home matchups, Pitt will host Florida State, Miami, Clemson, Virginia Tech and Notre Dame next season, while traveling to Georgia Tech, Duke, Wake Forest, NC State and Boston College.

In 2017-18, the Panthers welcome Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, NC State, Virginia and Boston College to the Petersen Events Center with road contests at Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, Virginia Tech and Notre Dame.

This year’s New York Life ACC Tournament is scheduled for March 8-12 at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. Both the 2017 and 2018 tournaments will be played at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Pitt’s regular-season ACC matchups for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons are listed below.

Pitt 2016-17
Home/Road: Louisville, Syracuse, North Carolina, Virginia
Home: Florida State, Miami, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Notre Dame
Road: Georgia Tech, Duke, Wake Forest, NC State, Boston College

Pitt 2017-18
Home/Road: Louisville, Syracuse, Miami, Duke
Home: Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, NC State, Virginia, Boston College
Road: Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Notre Dame

 

[maxxwell]

Two games each with Syr, Louis, UNC and UVA. Ouch!!!

 

[noelr]

Dixon better make the tourney this yr...next yr looks awful.

 

[recruitsreadtheseboards]

Wow. I guess we better load up our RPI in December!

 

[California Panther]

Wow. I guess we better load up our RPI in December!

That means next November/December won't have any cupcakes, we're going to play cream-puffs instead.

 

[FieldHouse12]

Yeah that seems fair.
LOL.

 

[TD_istheman]

I bet he won't dare take on one top 20 team OOC. Gallagher will force the issue I believe

 

[KiwiJeff]

I bet he won't dare take on one top 20 team OOC. Gallagher will force the issue I believe

It would be silly considering the ACC schedule to have an overly difficult OOC, unless you like going to the Nit.

 

[California Panther]

I bet he won't dare take on one top 20 team OOC. Gallagher will force the issue I believe

Depends on who we get matched up with in the ACC/B1G challenge, we're due for a road game there. Maybe they'll send us to the BJC again?

 

[MajorMajors]

From Pitt:

The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced the 18-game conference matchups for each of its 15 men’s basketball teams for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons. Pitt retains its permanent partners Louisville and Syracuse while adding home and home tilts with North Carolina and Virginia next season and Duke and Miami in 2017-18.

“Even while we are in the exciting stretch run of our current season, it’s intriguing to look ahead to the next two-years which will again feature highly anticipated matchups and rivalries,” said ACC Commissioner John Swofford.

The matchups released today designate the 18-game home and away opponents for each of the next two seasons. Specific game dates, times and networks have not yet been determined.

Along with the home and home matchups, Pitt will host Florida State, Miami, Clemson, Virginia Tech and Notre Dame next season, while traveling to Georgia Tech, Duke, Wake Forest, NC State and Boston College.

In 2017-18, the Panthers welcome Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, NC State, Virginia and Boston College to the Petersen Events Center with road contests at Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, Virginia Tech and Notre Dame.

This year’s New York Life ACC Tournament is scheduled for March 8-12 at Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. Both the 2017 and 2018 tournaments will be played at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Pitt’s regular-season ACC matchups for the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons are listed below.

Pitt 2016-17
Home/Road: Louisville, Syracuse, North Carolina, Virginia
Home: Florida State, Miami, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Notre Dame
Road: Georgia Tech, Duke, Wake Forest, NC State, Boston College

Pitt 2017-18
Home/Road: Louisville, Syracuse, Miami, Duke
Home: Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, NC State, Virginia, Boston College
Road: Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Notre Dame

Yikes -- is there a tougher 4 to have to play twice than what we get in 16-17? And is 17-18 any better? Double yikes.

Mr. Nix better be able to play some.

Go Pitt.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

What the EFFFF!!!!!! 8 of our 18 games are against UNC, UVa, Syr, and Lou? Throw in a road game at Duke. How do we navigate that?

 

[KiwiJeff]

What the EFFFF!!!!!! 8 of our 18 games are against UNC, UVa, Syr, and Lou? Throw in a road game at Duke. How do we navigate that?

You should be last to complain. You cried for years about not having enough good games, now we got them. There you go. Thank you ACC.

 

[noelr]

You should be last to complain. You cried for years about not having enough good games, now we got them. There you go. Thank you ACC.

I think we cried about playing sisters of the poor in the ooc; going 13-1 and getting our doors blown off when playing teams with a pulse.

 

[whirlybird optio]

I think we cried about playing sisters of the poor in the ooc; going 13-1 and getting our doors blown off when playing teams with a pulse.

Here's what I don't get. If all Pitt did in this OOC was beat the "sisters of the poor", why is our RPI so good? Why are we in relatively good position given our pretty mediocre ACC record? Could it be that 1) our OOC wasn't as bad as the pitt haters make it out to be, or 2) that most teams lose a few to the "little sisters of the poor"?

 

[whirlybird optio]

What the EFFFF!!!!!! 8 of our 18 games are against UNC, UVa, Syr, and Lou? Throw in a road game at Duke. How do we navigate that?

You just hope you can go 4-5 against those 9 games, and go 5-4 in the other 9. Hopefully the ACC is good enough that a .500 record gets us in easy. Probably little to no margin for error in the OOC though.

 

[KiwiJeff]

I think we cried about playing sisters of the poor in the ooc; going 13-1 and getting our doors blown off when playing teams with a pulse.

Ummm, no.

 

[Fredact]

Pitt will have one of the toughest schedules in the country in those 2 years, yet there will be the typical yinzer unknowledgeable fans complaining when Pitt plays winnable non-conference games.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

You should be last to complain. You cried for years about not having enough good games, now we got them. There you go. Thank you ACC.

I care about the fairness of ACC scheduling though.

I would still play someone like WVU home and home.

UVa loses Brogdon and Gill and Bennett hasnt recruited that well. UNC loses some guys. Eventually, we have to beat UVa.

 

[NCanton Panther]

Here's what I don't get. If all Pitt did in this OOC was beat the "sisters of the poor", why is our RPI so good? Why are we in relatively good position given our pretty mediocre ACC record? Could it be that 1) our OOC wasn't as bad as the pitt haters make it out to be, or 2) that most teams lose a few to the "little sisters of the poor"?

C'mon Whirly, a little over the top to characterize anyone who complains about our typical OOC schedule as being a Pitt hater. How bout maybe just someone who is a fan of good 'competitive' basketball, which unfortunately a large % of our OOC games each and every year are not. No one says you have to load up the OOC schedule with a bunch of top 20 teams but, for a pure fan of BB, a few more competitive matchups isn't much to ask for.

 

[NCanton Panther]

Ummm, no.

Don't understand your reply Kiwi?? Enlighten me then as to what the typical complaint against our OOC schedule is if not the general concept of noelr's reply??

 

[KiwiJeff]

Don't understand your reply Kiwi?? Enlighten me then as to what the typical complaint against our OOC schedule is if not the general concept of noelr's reply??

I am not going to rehash years of SMF diatribes to enlighten you. Feel free to read through whatever history Rivals keeps.

 

[NCanton Panther]

I am not going to rehash years of SMF diatribes to enlighten you. Feel free to read through whatever history Rivals keeps.

classic Kiwi reply, no answer at all

 

[KiwiJeff]

classic Kiwi reply, no answer at all

There has been a multi year multi page discussion between SMF and the rest of the board, which while related to scheduling, had nothing to do with what Noel answered. That's why I said no. Noel is correct in that people hold the opinion he posted about, but had absolutely nothing to do with what I was saying to SMF. SMF, knowing the discussion, responded correctly to me, as expected. But jumping in and presuming you understand a back story when you don't is what is causing you to misunderstand the statements made, and it is nearly impossible to consolidate the discussion of lo so many years into a couple bullets, sorry.

 

[Piranha]

It is all about the name to the yinzers. A team like Davidson or Kent St is viewed as a soft game by a yinzer who does not follow bball closely, but in reality are decent teams with a fairly good RPI.

I would simply replace a couple teams with an RPI of 250 and lower with a bottom feeder Big 10 team, and then add 1 of G'Town, UConn or Nova to the non-conference schedule, and then schedule the Hoopies. 3 game difference, but perception would change quite a bit.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

Here's what I don't get. If all Pitt did in this OOC was beat the "sisters of the poor", why is our RPI so good? Why are we in relatively good position given our pretty mediocre ACC record? Could it be that 1) our OOC wasn't as bad as the pitt haters make it out to be, or 2) that most teams lose a few to the "little sisters of the poor"?

The reason is exactly what I have said before, and in fact our AD said the same thing a few weeks ago when talking about scheduling. There are a lot of Pitt fans (and I am sure that Pitt is not unique in this regard) who think that playing and beating someone like Missouri is much more impressive than playing and beating someone like Davidson (to pick a team that we have played). Of course that isn't actually the case. Davidson is a much better basketball team than Missouri is. But these fans have heard of Missouri. They are in the SEC. They are pretty good in football. They MUST BE better in basketball than a no name school from a lesser league like Davidson. And so these fans get pissed off when we play someone like Davidson rather than someone like Missouri.