Pitt was picked to finish fourth out of seven teams in the ACC Coastal Division and received eight first-place votes, according to a poll of 173 media members at the 2019 ACC Kickoff event in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week.
The heavy favorite to win the division is Virginia, which received 82 first-place votes. Miami and Virginia Tech round out the top three in the Coastal, with 55 first-place votes and 20 first-place votes, respectively. Behind Pitt, occupying the three lowest positions in the preseason poll are Duke, North Carolina and Georgia Tech. Duke received six first-place votes, but North Carolina and Georgia Tech, both of which are under new leadership, received one first-place vote apiece.