CBS Sports college basketball writer David Cobb released his first 2026 bracketology update for the NCAA Tournament, and Duke basketball is listed as the top-seeded squad out of the ACC. Duke is slotted as a 2-seed in the recent update, the highest seed of any ACC program.
Louisville is next in line, listed as a 3-seed. Only five ACC programs are among the 68 teams in this bracketology, with only the Blue Devils and Cardinals as top-three seeds or better. North Carolina is in the mix as a 7-seed, followed by NC State as a 9-seed, and rounded out by SMU as an 11-seed.