he Duke men’s basketball team was selected as the favorite to win the 2021-22 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship, as chosen by media members at the ACC Tipoff.
Picked as the preseason ACC favorite for the seventh time in the last nine years, the Blue Devils received 47 first-place votes and 1,132 points overall in the media poll. Duke leads Florida State, North Carolina, Virginia and Virginia Tech atop the preseason poll.
Paolo Banchero swept the individual preseason awards, as the newcomer from Seattle, Wash., was tapped both the Preseason Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year while landing on the Preseason All-ACC First Team.