Though North Carolina and Virginia are both legitimate candidates to win the men's college basketball national championship in 2017, the Duke Blue Devils are the clear favorites to win the ACC regular-season title.
First things first—this conference is absurdly loaded. Not since the 2010-11 Big East that sent 11 teams to the NCAA tournament has a conference been this deep with talented teams. There are a couple of duds at the bottom of the projected standings, but 12 of the 15 teams in the ACC have sensible hopes of making the Big Dance, and at least half of those teams have realistic aspirations of reaching the Final Four.