Originally Posted by
Kedsy
OK, first of all, I misspoke. The "no plane trip" record is 3-3, not 3-4, which of course is still worse than the plane trip record (8-5). I suspect it's just random variation due to low sample, but the three losses in the "no plane trip" list were to NC State (KenPom #109) in 2017, to Syracuse (KP #27) in 2016, and to Miami (KP #41) in 2015. So, not particularly difficult as ACC opponents go.
For travel purposes in the home/road splits, I'm lumping bus trips to Raleigh or Chapel Hill into home games:
Road game two days after home game (incl one bus trip): 4 wins, 3 losses
Home game (incl one bus trip) two days after road game: 3 wins, 2 loss
Road game two days after road game: 1 win, 0 losses
Home game two days after home game (incl two bus trips): 3 wins, 3 losses
I don't really see a pattern here, other than the two-day turnaround. As far as how many of these opponents also had a two-day turnaround, I know that Miami in 2015 (referenced above) had a three-day turnaround but a long plane trip (and Duke's Sun/Tues two-day turnaround came after a bus trip to Raleigh), and that in 2014 Duke lost @UNC two days after a road game (Tu/Th) but the Heels had a three-day turnaround (but also a long plane trip after their previous game @FSU). Beyond that, I'm too lazy to look it up but the way the ACC schedules I suspect almost all the opponents had Saturday games before the Monday matchups. Whether they had afternoon vs. evening games on Saturday is even further beyond my desire to look up.
Kedsy, I for one never thought we'd reach your limit to find information, but the fact that we've reached this point for you to finally give up and self-identify as "lazy" is unfathomable. The stats work you put in on this Board is beyond belief.
Rich
"Failure is Not a Destination"
Coach K on the Dan Patrick Show, December 22, 2016