Duke is widely picked to be the best team in the ACC this coming season. And maybe the Blue Devils will be. We hope so; most of our readers are too.
But things don’t always go as expected. Take UNC basketball last season.
Picked number one nationally in the pre-season, the Tar Heels rapidly fell apart and missed the tournament after making it to the championship game the previous season.
It was really a surprising fall.
UNC had four starters back - Armando Bacot, Leaky Black, RJ Davis and Caleb Love.
Toss in transfer Pete Nance and it seemed like easy money.