Schedule Building In The ACC

When team schedules are revealed prior to the season observers tend to scan them, then move on. Periodic check-ins to view the path ahead occur from time to time as league play commences and the possibility of a squad’s NCAA inclusion becomes clear.

But before we get too far down the road, it’s instructive to compare ACC schedules and how they’re constructed.

Boston College, trying to make a good impression under new coach Luke Murray, starts the season with three home games out of four, the exception a meeting with UMass at neutral TD Garden, the Boston Celtics’ arena. Two of the following three games are at Conte Forum, with a third high-level local meeting at Harvard. (Tommy Amaker’s…