The release of the ACC basketball schedule in recent years has become a piecemeal process, what with the announcement of key non-conference dates before the announcement of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge before the announcement of various conference dates.
And then, finally, the release of the full ACC schedule. It came out on Wednesday. Here are the highlights for Duke, N.C. State and North Carolina:
DUKE
1. Six of Duke’s first nine ACC games are on the road, which will undoubtedly test Mike Krzyzewski’s young team. In the Blue Devils’ favor is the fact that only one of those six games is against an NCAA tournament team (at N.