Wolfpack 2019-20 basketball schedule released
The ACC released its 2019-20 basketball schedule Thursday night, unveiling the new 20-game conference slate for the first time.
It begins for NC State with a league game at home against Georgia Tech on Tuesday, Nov. 5 and includes a pair of "Heritage Games" at Reynolds Coliseum as part of the Barclay's Center Classic.
All three of the Wolfpack's Big Four rivals will also make trips to Raleigh, with North Carolina coming on Monday, Jan. 27, Duke on Wednesday, Feb. 19 and Wake Forest closing out the regular season schedule at PNC Arena on Saturday, March 6.
Here is the entire 2019-20 schedule:
| Day | Date | Opponent | Location | Time | TV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sunday | Oct. 27 | Mount Olive (ex) | PNC Arena | TBD | TBD |
Tuesday | Nov. 5 | Georgia Tech | PNC Arena | TBD | ACC Network |
Sunday | Nov. 10 | Detroit Mercy | PNC Arena | TBD | TBD |
Wedneday | Nov. 13 | Florida International | PNC Arena | TBD | TBD |
Saturday | Nov. 16 | St. Francis Brooklyn | Reynolds Coliseum | TBD | TBD |
Tuesday | Nov. 19 | Alcorn State | Reynolds Coliseum | TBD | TBD |
Saturday | Nov. 23 | Little Rock | PNC Arena | TBD | TBD |
Thursday | Nov. 28 | Memphis | Brooklyn, NY | 4 p.m. | ESPN2 |
Wednesday | Dec. 4 | Wisconsin | PNC Arena | 9:15 p.m. | ESPN2 |
Saturday | Dec. 7 | Wake Forest | Winston-Salem | TBD | ACC Network |
Sunday | Dec. 15 | UNC Greensboro | Greensboro Coliseum | TBD | TBD |
Thursday | Dec. 19 | Auburn | Auburn, Ala. | TBD | TBD |
Sunday | Dec. 22 | The Citadel | PNC Arena | TBD | TBD |
Sunday | Dec. 29 | Appalachian State | PNC Arena | TBD | TBD |
Sunday | Jan. 4 | Clemson | Clemson, SC | TBD | ACC Network |
Wednesday | Jan. 8 | Notre Dame | PNC Arena | TBD | ESPNU/2 |
Saturday | Jan. 11 | Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, Va. | TBD | RSN |
Wednesday | Jan. 15 | Miami | PNC Arena | TBD | RSN |
Saturday | Jan. 18 | Clemson | PNC Arena | TBD | RSN |
Monday | Jan. 20 | Virginia | Charlottesville, Va | TBD | ESPN |
Saturday | Jan. 25 | Georgia Tech | Atlanta, Ga. | TBD | RSN |
Monday | Jan. 27 | UNC | PNC Arena | TBD | ESPN |
Saturday | Feb. 1 | Louisville | PNC Arena | TBD | ESPN2/U |
Wednesday | Feb. 5 | Miami | Coral Gables, Fla. | TBD | ACC Network |
Tuesday | Feb. 11 | Syracuse | Syracuse, NY | TBD | ESPN2/U |
Sunday | Feb. 16 | Boston College | Chestnut Hill, Mass. | TBD | ACC Network |
Wednesday | Feb. 19 | Duke | PNC Arena | TBD | ESPN2/U |
Sunday | Feb. 22 | Florida State | PNC Arena | TBD | ESPN2/U/ACC Network |
Tuesday | Feb. 25 | UNC | Chapel Hill | TBD | ESPN2/U/ACC Network |
Saturday | Feb. 29 | Pitt | PNC Arena | TBD | ACC Network |
Monday | March 2 | Duke | Durham | TBD | ESPN |
Saturday | March 6 | Wake Forest | PNC Arena | TBD | ACC Network |
Tuesday-Saturday | March 10-14 | ACC Tournament | Greensboro | TBD | ACC Network |
Thursday-Sunday | March 19-22 | NCAA 1st-2nd rounds | |||
Thursday-Sunday | March 26-29 | NCAA regionals |
NOTES
The Wolfpack opens its season against Georgia Tech on Nov. 5, then a plays a second ACC game before New Years when it travels to its personal house of horrors (WakeForest), appropriately on Pearl Harbor Day, Dec. 7. State has a chance to get off to a fast start in the ACC with seven conference games on the schedule before the first meeting with one of the teams expected to be ranked in the preseason polls -- defending national champion Virginia, Duke, Louisville and UNC. ...
It's an opportunity for which coach Kevin Keatts' team would be well-advised to take advantage, since the Wolfpack will have to play those teams five times in a 10-game stretch -- with a trip to Syracuse thrown in -- between Jan. 20 and Feb. 25 ...
State's nonconference schedule includes eight November and December home dates, including back-to-back games at Reynolds Coliseum -- Nov. 16 against St. Francis Brooklyn and Nov. 19 against Alcorn State as part of the Barclay's Center Classic.
The Wolfpack will also play up-and-coming Memphis in the aforementioned Barclay's Classic in Brooklyn on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, Wisconsin as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Dec. 4, at Auburn on Dec. 19 ...
State will play all three of its Big Four rivals twice this season. The Wolfpack will play at home against UNC on Jan. 27 and travel to Chapel Hill on Feb. 25. Duke will come to Raleigh on Feb. 19 with the rematch at Cameron scheduled for March 2. The return game with the Deacons won't come until three months after the first meeting, in the regular season finale on March 6 ...
Finally, State will have three Saturday-Monday turnarounds, each with the more difficult test in the second game -- Jan. 18 at home vs Clemson & Jan. 20 at UVA a week later on Jan. 25 at Georgia Tech & Jan. 27 vs. UNC; then Feb. 29 at Pitt & March 2 vs Duke.
