Another year, another round of “Will Duke’s youthful talent outlast the more experienced ACC challengers?”
The Blue Devils are the preseason pick (for the fifth time in eight years) to win the ACC and preseason No. 1 in the country (for the second year in a row). But Mike Krzyzewski’s one-and-done reliant program has not finished first in the regular season in the ACC since 2010.
Jayson Tatum, last season’s star freshman, did help deliver an ACC title for the Blue Devils, who knocked off North Carolina and Notre Dame in Brooklyn to win the first tournament in New York.