Duke picked as preseason favorite in ACC
For the 10th time in the last 13 seasons, Duke is the preseason favorite to win the ACC.
The Blue Devils received 34 of 49 first-place votes in the preseason poll for ACC men’s basketball. Results of the poll were announced by the league on Tuesday afternoon.
The only other team to receive first-place votes was Louisville, with 15 of them. Louisville, along with UNC, will play Duke twice this season after the programs played for the ACC tournament championship last season.
Duke was picked to win the league’s regular-season crown last season and followed suit. The Blue Devils, by going 19-1, won the most ACC games in league history. As a reminder: The ACC is dropping back to 18 league games this season.
For player accolades, Duke freshman Cameron Boozer is a first-team All-ACC pick and received 43 of a possible 49 votes as the league’s freshman of the year. He finished runner-up to N.C. State’s Darrion Williams as the league’s preseason pick for player of the year.
Sophomore Isaiah Evans was named to the second-team.
Here are the full results of ACC preseason voting:
2025 ACC Preseason Poll
School, Voting points
1. Duke (34), 866
2. Louisville (15), 842
3. North Carolina, 741
4. N.C. State, 710
5. Virginia, 623
6. SMU, 616
7. Clemson, 510
8. Miami, 500
9. Syracuse, 489
10. Notre Dame, 477
11. Wake Forest, 412
12. Virginia Tech, 355
13. Georgia Tech, 315
14. Pitt, 301
15. Florida State, 221
16. California, 156
17. Stanford, 138
18. Boston College, 107
All-ACC teams and preseason awards
First-Team
Name, School, Votes
Cameron Boozer, Duke, 46
Markus Burton, Notre Dame, 46
Darrion Williams, NC State, 45
Mikel Brown Jr., Louisville, 36
Ryan Conwell, Louisville, 36
Second Team
Isaiah Evans, Duke, 24
Boopie Miller, SMU, 27
J.J. Starling, Syracuse, 27
Baye Ndongo, Georgia Tech, 24
Caleb Wilson, North Carolina, 24
ACC Preseason Player of the Year
Darrion Williams, NC State, 23 votes
Cameron Boozer, Duke, 19
Markus Burton, Notre Dame, 2
J.J. Starling, Syracuse, 2
Donald Hand Jr., Boston College, 1
Baye Ndongo, Georgia Tech, 1
Caleb Wilson, North Carolina, 1
ACC Preseason Rookie of the Year
Cameron Boozer, Duke, 43 votes
Mikel Brown Jr., Louisville, 3
Caleb Wilson, North Carolina, 2
Neoklis Avdalas, Virginia Tech, 1
