Las Vegas releases odds for 2022 ACC tournament
The 2021-2022 college basketball regular season has finished and many teams across the country have already begun their conference tournaments as we get one step closer to March Madness. The 2022 ACC Tournament starts on Tuesday at the Brooklyn Nets arena in Brooklyn, New York.
Ahead of tipoff at the ACC tournament, Las Vegas has released their odds for each team to take home the title. Similar to the KenPom projections, the Duke Blue Devils are the all-out favorite to win. Duke went 26-5 this season with just four losses in conference play. They lost to Miami, Florida State, Virginia and North Carolina once each.
Check out the odds to win the ACC tournament from Vegas, courtesy of VegasInsider.
Odds to win ACC tournament
Duke +100
UNC +600
Louisville +900
Miami-Florida +1000
FSU +1100
Virginia +1800
Notre Dame +2000
Wake Forest +2200
Virginia Tech +2500
Syracuse +3000
Clemson +4000
NC State +8000
Georgia Tech +12000
Pittsburgh +15000
Boston College +20000
ACC releases all-conference honors
The ACC on Monday released its 2021-22 men’s basketball awards, headlined by Wake Forest guard Alondes Williams.
Williams, a transfer, earned the 2021-22 ACC Player of the Year, marking the 11th time a Wake Forest player has won Player of the Year, and the first time since Josh Howard in 2003. This season, Williams transferred to Wake Forest for his fifth year, and he’s shined with the Demon Deacons, averaging 19.3 points, 6.7 rebounds and a league-high 5.3 assists per game. A native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Williams is just one point behind Buddy Boeheim of Syracuse for the conference scoring lead.
Williams was not the only member of the Demon Deacons to receive such high honors, as head coach Steve Forbes won the ACC Coach of the Year award. He led Wake Forest to a 6-16 overall record in the 2020-21 season, but in 2021-22, Forbes’ Demon Deacons are 23-8 (13-7 in conference play) and have earned the No. 5 seed in the ACC Tournament. Wake Forest is currently in the “last four byes” category of ESPN’s latest bracketology update.
In Mike Krzyzewski’s final season at Duke, the Blue Devils represented well in the end-of-season awards. Freshman Paolo Banchero was named ACC Rookie of the Year after averaging 17.1 points per game, the second-most among all freshmen, and Mark Williams was named Defensive Player of the Year.
Lastly, NC State guard Dereon Seabron was named ACC Most Improved Player, and Florida State guard Matthew Cleveland was named ACC Sixth Man of the Year.
The ACC tournament begins Tuesday with Pitt versus Boston College, Clemson versus NC State and Louisville versus Georgia Tech.
On3’s Simon Gibbs contributed to this report.