As soon as ACC expansion eliminated the round robin basketball schedule, it was always obvious that the strength of the conference schedule would vary from one team to the next. The open questions were always:
- How much would SOS vary from one year to the next?
- Would certain teams tend to get easier/harder schedules year after year?
- How much did the variations in schedule strength impact the current season?
For those that haven’t followed the details of building an ACC schedule, for 18 games against 14 opponents each team’s schedule consists of:
- Two designated rivals that they play twice every year (State’s rivals are UNC and WF.