2 PM Saturday. ESPN. Pace yourself.
1. There’s an annual tradition where the ACC media pegs Duke to win the conference regular season and then the Blue Devils fail (they’ve won once in the past 13 seasons) and their fans do backflips proving how little it matters because the nets they want to cut down come later in the season. This year, due to UNC bringing back a super-team of guys who would be pros already in the world before NIL, the Dukies weren’t picked to win (just kidding!), and now there’s a logjam at the top with UNC (11-3), Duke (10-3), and Virginia (10-4).