2010-2011 Men’s Basketball Schedule

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September 9th, 9:15 pm: This entry originally posted on September 2nd, but got buried in the UNC scandal coverage. We’re going to bring it back to the top of the blog to correspond with the good news that Coach Lowe has a big time in home visit tonight with a top high school prospect out of DeMatha. (Click here)

What more appropriate topic for the first day of College Football season than…BASKETBALL!?  (Do you wonder why the Atlantic Coast Conference struggles to build a reputation in Football?) 

We shared a pretty good preview of NC State’s projected 2010-2011 Basketball Schedule in this link last week, but today the ACC offices have released the entire schedule (accessible by clicking here).

 

Day Date Opponent Time Television
Tue Nov 9th Pfeiffer (Exhibition in Reynolds)  7:00
Fri Nov 12th Tennessee Tech 7:00
Thu Nov 18th in Charleston Classic vs ECU
Fri Nov 19th in Charleston Classic ESPNU
Sun Nov 21st in Charleston Classic ESPNU
Sat Nov 27th Farleigh Dickinson 2:00
Wed Dec 1st @ Wisconsin 7:15 ESPN2
Sat Dec 4th @ Syracuse 5:30 ESPN2
Sat Dec 11th USC Upstate (Reynolds) 2:00
Thu Dec 16th Youngstown State 7:00 FSSO
Sun Dec 19th Arizona 4:45 Fox Sports
Wed Dec 22nd Delaware State 7:00
Tue Dec 28th Alabama A&M 7:00
Sat Jan 1st San Diego Noon FSNS
Tue Jan 4th Elon (Greensboro Coliseum) 7:00
Sat Jan 8th Wake Forest 2:30 Raycom
Tue Jan 11th @ Boston College 9:00 ESPNU
Sat Jan 15th @ Florida State 4:00 Raycom
Wed Jan 19th Duke 7:00 ESPN
Sun Jan 23rd Miami 12:00 Raycom
Tue Jan 25th @ Clemson 7:00 RSN
Sat Jan 29th @ North Carolina 2:00 ESPN
Wed Feb 2nd Virginia Tech 7:00 ESPN/ESPN2
Sat Feb 5th @ Duke 6:00 ESPN/ESPN2
Sun Feb 13th @ Wake Forest 1:00 Raycom
Thur Feb  17th Clemson 7:00 ESPN/ESPN2
Sun Feb 20th @ Maryland 5:30 Fox Sports
Wed Feb 23rd North Carolina 9:00 Raycom
Sat Feb 26th Georgia Tech 2:00 Raycom
Tue Mar 1st @ Virginia 7:00 RSN
Sun Mar 6th Florida State 6:00 Fox Sports
Mar 12th – 15th ACC Tournament in Greensboro, NC

 

This link will take you to GoPack’s article.

The league’s 12 member schools are scheduled to make an ACC-record 182 national television appearances, breaking the record of 179 set a year ago. In addition, ACC teams will appear in 198 games, topping the 193-game mark first set in 2008-09 and matched last year. League schools will also make 300 overall TV appearances, tying the mark, originally set in 2008-09.

By the Numbers 182 – ACC teams are scheduled to make an all-time high 182 appearances on national television networks, including 137 appearances on ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, 36 on Fox Sports Net, seven on CBS and two on HDNet.

24 – ACC teams are scheduled to play a total of 24 games against 23 non-conference opponents that earned NCAA Tournament berths in 2009-10.

20 – Fox Sports Net and affiliates will televise 20 Sunday afternoon and evening games on a national basis, starting with College of Charleston at North Carolina (5:30) and Florida State hosting Florida (7:45) on November 28. Fourteen of the 20 FSN Sunday games are conference match-ups.

This link will take you to some breakdown from Backing the Pack:

— NC State opens the season at the RBC Center on November 12th against Tennessee Tech before hitting the road for the Charleston Classic.

— No conference game in December this year–our first ACC game isn’t until January 8th. No random OOC game in the middle of league play, either.

— We’ll be on the ESPN family of networks ten times.

— Six non-conference games will be televised (two @ Charleston, Wisconsin, Syracuse, Arizona, San Diego). My memory may be off, but that seems like more than we typically get.

— As far as marquee OOC home games go, we’re out of luck. There’s Arizona and Arizona. The good stuff happens either on the road or in Charleston.

— Breaking down conference play:

x2: Wake Forest, Duke, North Carolina, Florida State, Clemson
Home-only: Miami, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech
Road-only: Maryland, Boston College, Virginia

— Beginning conference play with Wake Forest and road trips to BC and FSU gives us a shot at a good start, which would probably be a good idea. The brutal stretch begins in late January: at UNC, vs. VT, at Duke back-to-back-to-back. And that stretch is sandwiched by a pair of road games. Four road trips in five games, with the heavy-hitters in the middle. Fun times.

— OOC foes with 2010 Pomeroy Rating in parenthesis:

Tenn Tech (251)
Fairleigh Dickinson (316)
Wisconsin (9)
Syracuse (4)
USC Upstate (280)
Youngstown State (225)
Arizona (92)
Delaware State (264)
Alabama A&M (334)
San Diego (219)
Elon (260)

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30 Responses to 2010-2011 Men’s Basketball Schedule

  1. Moox 09/10/2010 at 4:54 PM #

    That is a possibility, however, we can alleviate that issue by opting for an H/H rather than a guarantee game.

    H/H = Home and Home series

    Guarantee = Single season, compensation package to opponent.

    With H/H’s both teams expect to generate some sizable income as a result of the series being played at the venue of both schools. The downside to this format is it usually requires scheduling two years in advance, something that Lowe and company are probably a bit shaky about considering their ultimate lack of job security and the fact that they need a winning season this year and have no clue what our potential is for next year until our freshman actually take to the court and decide whether or not they are one and dones.

  2. 61Packer 09/10/2010 at 5:41 PM #

    The Wolfpack’s non-conference cupcake parade in both revenue sports began long before ACC expansion. And judging from this season’s basketball schedule and next year’s football schedule, it’s not getting any better. Neither is our program strength in these two sports, which I link directly to the lack of quality non-conference opposition. I know Tom O’Brien wants to keep his job, but when we’re bringing in Central Michigan (who we’ll have to pay back in a Mt. Pleasant road trip in 2014), South Alabama (see Central Michigan road game payback), and Liberty, is this what the fans really want? I love to tailgate, but why in the world do we keep bringing in MAC, Conference USA and SOCON teams all the time?

    I just want Duke back on our schedule each season in football, and twice a year in basketball. Let somebody else be partnered up with BC for a change. I’m sure Wake and UNC fans feel the same about their rivalry being destroyed as well. If we had administrators at NC State who gave a damn about the fans, this would have been done long ago.

  3. VaWolf82 09/10/2010 at 6:46 PM #

    Neither is our program strength in these two sports, which I link directly to the lack of quality non-conference opposition.

    The strength/weakness of the team is the responsibility of the head coach…not the OOC opponents. I find it ludicrous to suggest that better OOC competition would somehow magically improve either team.

  4. 61Packer 09/10/2010 at 9:42 PM #

    The 2 main points of my post were 1-that NC State continues to improve facilities and wants to be a nationally ranked team, yet continues to bring in OOC opponents they should not only beat but should pound every season, and 2-State fans would rather see teams from BCS conferences come here occasionally instead of the likes of MAC/SOCON teams, as well as South Alabama and Liberty.

    You do need a few of those for Ws, but they’re just about all we play. I’ve seen it for 20 years in both main sports, and we’ve been terrible during those years. I’d just like to know why we have administrators who say it’s a good thing to schedule Central Michigan 3 times in 4 seasons. And I believe we also play South Alabama 3 times too. Why?

  5. acc 10k 09/22/2010 at 9:24 AM #

    We have 14 OOC games:
    – 3 in Charleston Classic
    – 2 true road games (MSU in ACC-B10 challenge, Syracuse)
    – Elon in Greensboro
    – USC-Upstate in Reynolds
    – 7 at RBC
    I assume (not season ticket buyer) that the first 7 above are not included in the ticket package. Also assume that 6 of the 7 in RBC, plus the Reynolds game, are guarantee games with no return road visit. Arizona at RBC is completion of H-H that had us in Tucson last year. Don’t know the nature of the contract with Elon and Greensboro – maybe they get a share of the revenue from that, in lieu of guarantee for previous and/or future games in Raleigh.

    I’d make these points:
    – When I was in school (end of V era) we would’ve had at least one more H-H in the schedule. That would put us with one more road game, and one more really good home game. Result would be two less cupcakes. Would it really hurt our revenue to replace two lousy games with one good one in RBC? I would think increased attractiveness of the ticket package would offset having one less game in it; plus people would actually use the tickets for the good game, resulting in more concessions, etc.
    – Out of our control what we get from Big 10 or when it is at home.
    – Nothing at all wrong with the Charleston scheduling – should be a weak game, a solid game, and a really good game, if form holds. And all with neutral site for RPI.
    – Elon in Greensboro looks much better for RPI than the other clunkers, because it is a neutral site game.
    – We are in an almost perfect location for scheduling – Almost 40 DI teams between NC and VA. The best teams in the CAA (Richmond, GMU, JMU, W&M), SoCon (App, Davidson), a lot of others, all close enough to come by bus instead of plane, a few close enough not to even need a hotel.
    – Virtually every team in previous item closer or equidistant compared to USC-Upstate. There is absolutely no excuse for scheduling that game, unless they happened to be passing through that week and agreed to play in exchange for use of the fold-out couch for the night.
    -Can we not do 2-for-1 deals with solid mid-major teams that are too good to want to take a guarantee (or too expensive), but not marquee enough to do a straight H-H?

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