Women's college basketball is less than six weeks from the 2024-2025 season tip-off, and the ACC released its conference schedules on Tuesday, September 24th.
The Hokies will open conference play on Sunday, December 8th, when Virginia Tech travels to Durham, NC, to take on the Duke Blue Devils at 4 p.m. EST. Below is Tech’s full conference schedule for the 2024-2025 college basketball season.
Dec. 8: at Duke
Jan. 2: vs. Florida State
Jan. 5: at Miami
Jan. 9: at Georgia Tech
Jan 12: vs. Wake Forest
Jan. 16: vs. Virginia
Jan. 19: vs. Louisville
Jan. 23: at Pittsburgh
Jan. 26: at. North Carolina State
Jan. 30: vs. Notre Dame
Feb. 2: vs. SMU
Feb. 6: vs. Syracuse
Feb. 9: at Virginia
Feb. 13: at North Carolina
Feb. 20: vs. Stanford
Feb. 22: vs. California
Feb. 27: at Boston College
March 2: at Clemson
Tech will have an entirely new look this year compared to previous seasons. The most significant absence is former head coach Kenny Brooks, who left two days after the Hokies were eliminated in the second round of 2024 NCAA Tournament to become the head coach at Kentucky. All-ACC PG Georgia Amoore and talented young center Clara Strack both followed Brooks to Kentucky along with a pair of top recruits in Portugese C Clara Silva and four-star SG Lexi Blue.
To top things off, former three-time ACC Player of the Year Liz Kitley, finished her career with the Hokies in the spring of 2024 and was drafted to the Las Vegas Aces with the 24th pick of the second round of the 2024 WNBA Draft.
There is light at the end of the tunnel for VT, which hired Megan Duffy out of Marquette as the program's new head coach just a week after the loss of Brooks. The Hokies should be in good hands as Duffy has a career record of 154-66 (.700) in two seasons at Miami (Ohio) and five seasons with the Golden Eagles, winning 19+ games in all seven seasons including three NCAA Tournament and three WNIT appearances.
Duffy has massive shoes to fill, especially in ACC play. Tech has gone 14-4 in the previous two seasons against in-conference opponents, including winning the ACC Tournament in 2023 and eventually advancing to the Final Four of the 2023 NCAA Tournament.
Notable dates for the Hokies ACC season include January 16, 2025, when the Virginia Cavaliers travel to Cassell Coliseum for the first edition of the Commonwealth Clash, January 30, 2025, when the 2024 ACC Champion Notre Dame Fighting Irish visit Blacksburg, and February 9, 2025, when Tech makes the journey to Charlottesville, VA, for a rematch against their in-state rivals.
Tech finished its previous season 16-1 at home – 9-0 in ACC play – with the only loss coming against the Baylor Lady Bears in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The powerhouse WBB program built in Blacksburg has only lost two conference games at home in the past three seasons, with a record of 25-2 against ACC opponents in Cassell.
Tech will begin its season with three of four games on the road, where it has struggled in previous seasons, going 6-5 in 2023. Duke, Miami, and Georgia Tech are the Hokies' road opponents to start conference play before flipping the script after, hosting six of the next eight games at home from January 12th to February 6th.
Luckily for the Hokies, they will host Stanford and Cal, two of the newest ACC teams from California, and avoid traveling to the West Coast, a new feat for all ACC athletics. The showdown with perennial power Stanford is a highlight of the Hokies' home schedule this fall.
Tech will remain on the East Coast for the entirety of ACC play, something they are comfortable with and where they hope to replicate their overall and conference records from the previous two seasons in search of continuing to be one of the nation's women's college basketball powerhouses even with a new coach at the helm.
