The best ACC performer ever from Australia played basketball at Duke. Of course Kyrie Irving, the top pick in the 2011 draft, was listed as a product of West Orange, N.J., where he spent most of his youth, rather than Melbourne, Australia.
Similarly, Brooklyn-born Michael Jordan will forever be known as coming from Wilmington, N.C.
It’s doubtful Irving will be overshadowed by any of his countrymen currently in the ACC. Only a few of them start; they are not exactly stars. One, Jack White, plays for Duke.
The conference also has several players from New Zealand, an island nation across the Tasman Sea from the island continent of Australia.