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ACC basketball rankings week four: Louisville, Virginia and Florida State rise, Duke and Syracuse fall

Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, we welcome you back to another week of the proud, preeminent, ACC basketball rankings. Backed by no formula or methodology, these rankings are entirely objective, accurate and have immeasurable influence over the AP Top 25. And by that, we mean that we don’t even have an AP vote, nor do we have one iota of influence over anything.

It was another wild week in the sport of college basketball and the ACC played a big part in that. Duke lost to Stephen F. Austin and Virginia Tech, picked to finish 14th in the ACC in the preseason, took down the preseason No.