ACC releases NC State men's basketball conference pairings for 2025-26 season

As the ACC has moved to an 18-game conference schedule for the 2025-26 season, teams around the league will only play two programs in home-and-home settings with single-game dates with all but one of the remaining teams in the conference.

NC State’s pairings were released on Wednesday, which features home-and-home series with Virginia and Wake Forest, for first-year coach Will Wade’s debut season in the ACC.

The Wolfpack will only host Duke, Georgia Tech, Miami, UNC, Stanford, Syracuse and Virginia Tech, while it will only hit the road to face Boston College, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pitt and SMU. The program will not square off with Cal, which swept the Pack in its two meetings this past season.

Since NC State and UNC will meet just once in the new scheduling format this season, it will mark the first time that the two teams haven’t played in Chapel Hill since 1919.

The 18-game schedule is set to begin in late December and it will end on the first Saturday of March ahead of the ACC Tournament, which will be held March 10-14 at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte.. The league will release dates, tip times and television designations in September.

In addition to the Wolfpack’s conference opponents, NC State will host Kansas (Dec. 13), Liberty and VCU during the non-conference slate. It is also set to partake in the ACC-SEC Challenge and will play in the Maui Invitational in November.