Virginia Tech Women's Basketball 2025-26 ACC Conference Schedule

On August 8. Virginia Tech announced its non-conference schedule. The ACC released its 2025-26 women’s basketball conference schedules on Tuesday, Sept. 2. Here is the complete 30-game schedule that kicks off the celebration of 50 seasons of varsity women’s basketball in Blacksburg:

True to form, Virginia Tech will play an ACC opponent in the middle of its non-conference schedule in early December. Toby Fournier and the defending ACC champions Duke visit Cassell  on Dec. 7.   The Hokies then play at Florida State on Dec. 18 just before the Radford game. Both Duke and Florida State are opponents the Virginia Tech women's team had issues with last season, so it will be interesting to see how much the Hokies have improved this year. Duke was last year’s top ranked defensive team (56.5 ppg) in the ACC. Whereas Florida State gave up the higher average points (71.7 ppg) in  2024-25, it had the third best margin of victory at 15.2 ppg (Duke was second at 16.0 ppg).

Virginia Tech hosts Miami on New Year’s Day. Last year’s come-from-behind win against Miami on the road was the springboard for 5 wins in 6 games that showed the new look Hokies were going to be very competitive. The Hokies travel to Louisville on Jan. 4. Virginia Tech’s upset of Louisville, a team that finished 5th in the standings, was perhaps its key signature win last year.

Starting January 8, the Virginia Tech women play 7 straight games against teams that the placed below Virginia Tech in the ACC standings last year: at Syracuse on Jan. 8, vs. Boston College on Jan. 11, at SMU on Jan. 15, vs. Clemson on Jan. 22, vs. Pitt on Jan 29, and vs. UVA on Feb. 1. These teams were a combined 91-127 (.417) and 35-91 (.278) in the ACC last season.  VT went 4-3 against these opponents, with the average margin in those three losses being 5.67 points, including the 3-pt OT loss to Boston College. If the Hokies are going to improve this season, they have to take advantage of this slate of games.

The Virginia Tech women will be quickly tested with two games against teams that finished 1-2 last season in the regular season standings - an away game at Notre Dame on Feb. 5 and home game against NC State on Feb. 8.  The Hokies then travel to the West Coast to take on Stanford on Feb. 12 and California on Feb. 15. The Stanford game will be interesting as the 1-pt OT loss to Stanford last year could easily have been the game that kept Virginia Tech out of the NCAA tournament.

The women have home games against UNC on Feb. 19 and Georgia Tech on Feb. 22.  The North Carolina game last year, though a loss, showed that the Hokies could compete and nearly pull out a win against a program that finished fourth in the regular season standings. While the double OT win against #13 ranked Georgia Tech in Atlanta was the coming out party for the Virginia Tech women, the loss to the Yellow Jackets in the ACC tournament left a sour taste. This could be a key game that cements a successful ACC run in 2025-26. 

Virginia Tech closes the regular season at UVA on March 1 in the second Commonwealth Clash game between the two in-state rivals. The ACC tournament, held in Gas South Arena in Duluth, Georgia, starts on March 4 and ends with the championship game on March 8. In a twist this season, the NCAA committee will reveal the top 16 seeds on Saturday, March 14 and then lay out the entire 68-team bracket on Sunday, March 15.