This is the time of year for preseason basketball polls.
Everybody is trying to look into the future. The Blue Ribbon Yearbook (I had some small input in this one) picked Virginia to win the ACC this season. Athlon magazine picked Duke as the favorite. The ACC Sports Journal picked UNC as the top team going into the season.
I don’t have a problem with any of those predictions (well, maybe I would like to debate Dave Glenn’s choice of Florida State to finish ninth – Dave, I think you have seriously underestimated the Seminoles). And I am as baffled by the national picture as most of the predictors seem to be – Maryland?