ACC 2025-26

[triaddukefan]

I feel similarly about the Duke State game, not as strongly, but still I miss playing losing to them twice a year. I'd gladly give up playing BC or SMU or whoever for a return to an emphasis on regional rivalries. That's what makes college sports fun.

Fixed it for you 🙃

 

[FanInNC]

It's the idea about it being at a neutral site that I'm not big on. It's the "old lady yelling at the cloud" in me, but it doesn't seem right if they can't play both games on their respective campuses during the season.

I'm with you. Hypothetically if this were to happen they should play the other game at whoever doesn't get the home game in the conference schedule. Neutral site games in general don't do well for attendance.

In football this past year State and UVA played a non conference game, so it's not totally foreign. Way back in the day they used to have the Dixie Classic where State, UNC, Duke and WF would play a 4 team tourney that didn't count towards the conference in MBB.

 

[FanInNC]

Fixed it for you 🙃

State is 51-41 all time vs Duke. It's 5-5 over the last 10. 11-6 over the last 10 years against Duke. Have to go back to the days of Kellie Harper to have those memories of being swept by Duke on a regular basis.

 

[triaddukefan]

State is 51-41 all time vs Duke. It's 5-5 over the last 10. 11-6 over the last 10 years against Duke. Have to go back to the days of Kellie Harper to have those memories of being swept by Duke on a regular basis.

 

[triaddukefan]

Land Grants and Flagships in the same conference should play twice a year. Whether it is State vs Chapel Hill, Michigan State vs Michigan, or Montana vs Montana State. I wish State and Duke would play twice a year, but I kinda rather have Wake and Duke play twice a year instead.

 

[triaddukefan]

I guess I haven't been paying attention but VPI is 18-5. 😦😦😦😦.

 

[Dillon77]

I guess I haven't been paying attention but VPI is 18-5. 😦😦😦😦.

They're on a 7-game winning streak since losing at Louisville way back on January 4th. Now, granted, they've often been at home against some of the ACC's less competitive teams, but they did beat Clemson and Virginia in Blacksburg and Syracuse at the Dome.

Things get a bit more challenging when they head to South Bend this Thursday in a battle of Muffet McGraw's former-point guards turned head coaches (Megan Duffy vs Niele Ivey), then NC State comes to Blacksburg. The Hokies then do the dreaded left coast swing to Cal and Stanford.

That said, Coach Duffy is getting a lot out of this team, which is led by Carys Baker and Carleigh Wenzel, both of whom are averaging 14+

Stay tuned.