081: ACC Home & Away Splits
A quick look at the home and away splits in ACC play.
As ACC men’s basketball enters the final week of the regular season, teams have won ~62 percent of home games.
Only four teams (Miami, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Louisville) do not have a positive point differential at home.
The inverse is true for away games as only four teams (Duke, UNC, Clemson, Pittsburgh) own a positive point differential away from home.
You can find league standings and point differentials by location for any conference over at CBB Conference Index. See the ACC below:
A note about each team:
North Carolina and Duke post identical home records (8-1) with nearly identical point differentials at home (+114 for UNC and +113 for Duke).
Virginia is five games above .500 in the league with a negative point differential.
Syracuse is three games above .500 and owns a -63 differential overall.
Wake Forest’s distance between its home point differential and road point differential is 170 points. The Deacs are 2-8 on the road with a +55 differential in the 1st half of road games and a -84 point differential in the second half.
Clemson and Pittsburgh are both 10-8 with positive point differentials at home and on the road.
NC State and Florida State are both 9-9 with negative point differentials overall.
Virginia Tech owns a +3 point differential overall despite an 8-10 overall league record.
Notre Dame is 7-11 overall with a -20 point differential, but has won five of its last six league games.
Miami, Boston College, and Georgia Tech are all 6-12 overall with successively worse point differentials (-64 for Miami, -72 for Boston College, -120 for Georgia Tech).
Louisville is now 5-34 overall against ACC opponents under Kenny Payne, including a -195 point differential this season. That’s bad.
Whew.
There are too many teams in this league. It gets even more bloated next season with Cal, Stanford, and SMU.
The ACC plays more league games (20) than any other conference. Compare the number of games played in league play so far to other “power” leagues:
Conference games played through March 2, 2024
ACC.......272
Big Ten...252
Big 12....224
SEC.......224
Pac-12....218
Big East..198The league schedule is unbalanced and the tie breakers for the conference tournament make you want to take a walk.
What can’t you WAB?
In the spirit of continuing to use wins-above-bubble to do anything, stay tuned later this week because I’m working with Ryan (@5th_Factor) to point out how the in-conference schedule is unbalanced using WAB.
Anyhow, happy Sunday.
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CBB Conference Index: standings, head-to-head records, and percentage of games in each quadrant
WABStick: compare the résumés of two teams using wins-above-bubble