The ACC now stretches from sea to shining sea, with 18 women’s basketball programs set to belong to the conference beginning in the 2024-25 season. In February, the conference released the conference matchups for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons, determining all teams’ home and away opponents for the next two seasons.
Additional changes, however, could be on the horizon, as both Florida State and Clemson are suing to leave the conference. Both schools are challenging the conference’s right to charge an exit fee of more than $100 million. Earlier this week, a judge in Tallahassee ordered that FSU and the ACC to enter mediation.
For now, let’s turn our attention to the drama that could unfold on the basketball court, rather in the court of law.
Stanford, Cal and SMU join the ACC
Two teams from northern California and one from Texas are now in the Atlantic Coast Conference? Sure. Thanks college football.
The Stanford team that will cross the country to compete in the ACC will look much different from the Cardinal teams we’ve come to know. First, for the first season since 1985, Tara VanDerveer will not be perched on the Stanford sideline, professorially assessing the action. The retirement of VanDerveer opened the way for longtime assistant Kate Paye to take…
