DURHAM, N.C.—A couple days after being tabbed as the No. 2 team in the preseason USILA coaches’ poll, the Duke men’s lacrosse team has been voted as the preseason favorite to win the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2019. The Blue Devils topped the poll of the five head coaches with 21 points.
In addition to being picked as the preseason favorite, Duke landed four players – Joe Robertson, Brad Smith, JT Giles-Harris, Cade Van Raaphorst – on the preseason All-ACC squad. The four selections matched Virginia’s total, while Syracuse had three, Notre Dame two and North Carolina one.