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ACC's additions of Cal, Stanford create test for coast-to-coast basketball scheduling plans
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Brooke Demetre was ready to go. The Stanford forward isn’t deterred by the idea of the cross-country travel that awaits the Cardinal and California men’s and women’s basketball teams in the newly expanded Atlantic Coast Conference. No, just like for this week’s flight to the state of North Carolina for the league’s preseason media days, she’ll have everything she’ll need to pass the time between homework and hobbies. “I love crafts, and art,” she said with a laugh Wednesday. “So I love to paint, draw, crochet. And I have a bedazzling kit. So on the way here, I have this little mini-watercolor set. So I was painting on the plane ride over.” OK, so the 6-foot-3 junior is set. But what about everybody else for the Cardinal or the Bears? Or, for that matter, the teams in the ACC’s eastern-seaboard footprint that will now have trips to the Golden State? The league’s expansion to 18 basketball programs, including the addition of SMU to plant the ACC’s flag in Texas, has turned what used to be largely regional tussles to determine a regular-season champion into a Pacific-to-Atlantic endeavor that changed the way the ACC handled scheduling.
Insider’s Preview: Stanford
A road upset win part of what is already a mixed bag resume for 2024, Stanford travels to South Bend this weekend for its biennial matchup with Notre Dame. The 2-3 Cardinal have not won since that mid-September, 26-24, Friday night victory at Syracuse, but will attempt this Saturday to return to the scene of its 2022 crime—one largely perpetrated by the Irish in defeat, but orchestrated by a Stanford squad that would not yield as underdogs of 16.5 points.
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