The ACC's 1st Run with Atlantic-to-Pacific League Travel Offers Tweaks, Lessons for Year 2

Cal, Stanford among ACC teams hoping Atlantic-to-Pacific league travel is smoother in Year 2

By AARON BEARD, Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ask Cal women’s coach Charmin Smith about her team’s first run of cross-country travel for Atlantic Coast Conference games last year, and she’ll shrug off the question about the challenges of doing it. “We’re in the ACC, we’re happy to be in the ACC,” she said Tuesday during the league’s preseason media days. “And we get on a plane and we go.” Still, the league’s expansion to stretch from the Pa…

The ACC’s 1st run with Atlantic-to-Pacific league travel offers tweaks, lessons for Year 2

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Ask California women's coach Charmin Smith about her team's first run of cross-country travel for Atlantic Coast Conference games last year, and she'll shrug off the question about the challenges of doing it.

The ACC's 1st run with Atlantic-to-Pacific league travel offers tweaks, lessons for Year 2

Atlantic Coast Conference men's and women's basketball teams will have a second year of cross-country travel since expansion to add Stanford, California and SMU.