The first season with Cal, Stanford and SMU in the Atlantic Coast Conference coincided with one of the ACC’s worst seasons for its basketball image, so the ACC

The Atlantic Coast Conference is reducing its 20-game men’s basketball schedule to 18. That will give teams two more spots for marquee nonconference games in a bid to boost a league getting a dwindling haul of NCAA Tournament bids.

Boston College-Notre Dame will remain a primary pairing in a scheduling shake-up in which ACC teams won't face one league member each year