Expanded ACC Reveals Future Virginia Tech Basketball Schedules

By: David Cunningham | Managing Editor
Mike Young and Virginia Tech will play Clemson, Miami and Virginia twice each in 2024-25, and they’ve also got a trip to California. (Jon Fleming)

The ACC revealed revamped future basketball matchups for Virginia Tech men’s and women’s basketball now that the conference is expanding to 18 teams next season with the additions of Cal, Stanford and SMU.

The 2024-25 schedule was announced on the men’s side on Thursday, while the league publicized the women’s opponents for the next two seasons.

Men’s basketball

Men’s basketball is keeping its 20-game slate. With 18 members, that equates to two games (home and away) each year for two permanent rivals — for the Hokies, that’s Miami and Virginia — along with one repeat opponent (home and away). Of the remaining 14 teams, seven will be home games and seven will be away games.

In the past, schools had two permanent rivals and played a rotating group of four teams twice while it saw the other eight squads once, either home or away.

Virginia Tech’s schedule:

  • Home/away: Clemson, Miami, Virginia
  • Home only: Louisville, North Carolina, NC State, Pitt, SMU, Syracuse, Wake Forest
  • Away only: Boston College, Cal, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, Stanford

Notable: Virginia Tech is part of the group that will swing out to California in 2024-25. The last time it played out there, it beat Saint Louis and Liberty in the 2019 NCAA Tournament and advanced to the Sweet 16.

It’ll be the program’s first time playing a conference game in that state and the fourth time visiting during the regular season, the first since the Wooden Legacy in 2016. Here’s a breakdown of Tech’s history in California:

Here’s a breakdown of what it looks like for the entirety of the ACC:

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Women’s basketball

It’s different on the women’s side. The ACC is doing away with the previous format of pods, which featured a five-team group of Duke, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia and Virginia Tech. Instead, the Hokies will play a permanent rival (Virginia) twice every season and every other school once, either home or away.

Here’s what their schedules look like:

2024-25:

  • Home/away: Virginia
  • Home only: Cal, Florida State, Louisville, Notre Dame, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Wake Forest
  • Away only: Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Pitt

2025-26:

  • Home/away: Virginia
  • Home only: Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Pitt
  • Away only: Cal, Florida State, Louisville, Notre Dame, SMU, Stanford, Syracuse, Wake Forest

Notable: Though the rivalries with NC State and North Carolina might’ve died off anyway with this wave of players graduating and moving on — Tech’s played them a combined 24 times since Elizabeth Kitley and Cayla King were freshmen in 2019-20 — it’ll be a once-a-year thing for the Hokies now. They’ll go to the Triangle three times next season and the three schools will return the favor the following year.

Unlike the men’s team, Kenny Brooks & Co. don’t travel to California in 2024-25. However, they have trips to Cal, Stanford and SMU in the same season, along with jaunts to Syracuse and Florida State. That’s a big difference compared to three bus trips to North Carolina per season like in years past.

Tech hasn’t played in California since a two-game tournament in Moraga in 2011. Here’s its all-time breakdown in that state:

Here’s what the full ACC schedule looks like for the next two seasons:

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  1. The people that run the ACC are idiots – why not break up the trips to the triangle (they did the same thing in football)? No wonder they are getting boat-raced by the $EC and B1G – UFB.

  2. I wish they had separated the triangle schools so that we at least go to one each year instead off all home or all away

  3. To put a positive spin on this. Our alumni in the Dallas and Bay areas get an opportunity to attend a game live if they choose

    1. Wonder how many VT alums live in those area and of those, how many would have any interest in going to a game? Guessing both numbers are relatively small.

        1. I believe there are 2000 VT alum in the DFW area, including me. I’m not a fan of the new schedule. VT should be playing in Dallas this year. We had a great turnout for last years Final Four

  4. I wonder if they will try and put the Cal and Stanford games back-to-back to avoid travelling cross-country twice. Might make a fan trip worthwhile as well.

      1. We tend to play Thursday/Sunday and that should work for a long weekend trip.

  5. do these opponents grids come in a placemat form like an old HOJOs placemat. I need to eat my cereal on this and chew on it for a while. Yikes

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