NC State women's basketball team announces 2016-17 schedule

In case you've forgotten, there's more than one basketball team on campus with exciting prospects for the 2016-17 season. The Wolfpack Women are coming off a good year that ended with an NCAA tournament snub and are loading up with a talented recruiting class led by Aislinn Konig, who should be an immediate impact player at guard.

The Pack's full schedule was released on Thursday, and below is the conference portion of it. (The women still play a 16-game league schedule.)

Day	Date	Time (ET)	Opponent	Location	TV
Thursday	Dec. 29	7 p.m.	No. 1 Notre Dame	Raleigh	ACCNE
Monday	Jan. 2	7 p.m.	at No. 15 FSU	Tallahassee	ACCNE
Thursday	Jan. 5	7 p.m.	No. 18 Miami	Raleigh	ACCNE
Sunday	Jan. 8	2 p.m.	at Wake Forest	Winston-Salem	RSN
Thursday	Jan. 12	7 p.m.	at No. 20 Syracuse	Syracuse
Sunday	Jan. 15	3 p.m.	Duke	Raleigh	RSN
Sunday	Jan. 22	2 p.m.	Clemson	Raleigh	ACCNE
Thursday	Jan. 26	7 p.m.	Pittsburgh	Raleigh	ACCNE
Sunday	Jan. 29	3 p.m.	at UNC-CH	Chapel Hill	RSN
Thursday	Feb. 2	7 p.m.	at No. 2 Louisville	Louisville
Thursday	Feb. 9	7 p.m.	at Georgia Tech	Atlanta
Sunday	Feb. 12	2 p.m.	Virginia Tech	Raleigh	ACCNE
Thursday	Feb. 16	7 p.m.	at Boston College	Chestnut Hill
Sunday	Feb. 19	2 p.m.	Wake Forest (H4H)	Raleigh	ESPN
Thursday	Feb. 23	7 p.m.	UNC-CH	Raleigh	RSN
Sunday	Feb. 26	2 p.m.	at Virginia	Charlottesville	ACCNE

(ACCNE = ACC Network Extra = ESPN3)

State dropped resume-defining games it probably should have won on a few occasions last season and will have an early opportunity to prove that won't be the case in 2017. Tough start to league play, and Notre Dame and Louisville are on a tier above everybody, but with Duke and Carolina fading this is not an especially deep league.

Wes Moore's crew has a pretty good shot at improving on their 10-6 ACC record last season, and if they do, there shouldn't be any doubt about their place in the NCAAs.

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