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Orange Picked 10th In ACC Preseason Media Poll
10/26/2017 1:52:00 PM | Men's Basketball
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – Syracuse was picked to finish tenth while defending Atlantic Coast Conference champion Duke leads the 2017-18 preseason media poll conducted as part of the league's annual Operation Basketball held earlier this week in Charlotte.
Syracuse was 10-8 in ACC play a year and finished the season 19-15 overall.
The Blue Devils, who finished 28-9 last season, won the New York Life ACC Tournament and earned the program's 22nd consecutive NCAA Tournament berth, received 57 of 69 first-place votes in the preseason poll released Thursday.
Duke returns senior guard Grayson Allen and welcomes a highly-rated recruiting class led by 6-11 forward Marvin Bagley III – the overwhelming choice as ACC Preseason Rookie of the Year.
Notre Dame senior forward Bonzie Colson was voted ACC Preseason Player of the Year.Colson finished strong at the end of the 2016-17 season, scoring at least 20 points in eight of his final 12 games. He finished the season averaging a double-double with 17.8 points and 10.1 rebounds per game. Colson led the conference in rebounding and ranked ninth among all scorers.
Duke's Bagley, who hails from Phoenix, Arizona, averaged 25.8 points, a league-high 14.9 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game for the Nike Phamily on the EYBL circuit in 2017. A USA Today All-USA first-team selection as a prep junior in 2017, he averaged 24.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game to lead Sierra Canyon to a 27-3 record.
Colson, Allen and North Carolina's Joel Berry II lead the balloting for the Preseason All-ACC Team. They are joined on the first team by Bagley and Georgia Tech's Ben Lammers.
The Preseason All-ACC Second Team consists of Miami's Bruce Brown Jr., Louisville teammates Quentin Snider and Deng Adel, Georgia Tech's Josh Okogie and Boston College's Jerome Robinson. -
The regular season begins for all 15 ACC teams the weekend of November 10. In addition to an 18-game regular-season conference schedule, the 65th annual New York Life ACC Tournament will be played for the second consecutive year at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, tipping off with first-round games on Tuesday, March 6, and concluding with the Saturday night championship game on March 10.
ACC Operation Basketball 2017-18 Preseason Poll
(First-place votes in parenthesis)
Syracuse was 10-8 in ACC play a year and finished the season 19-15 overall.
The Blue Devils, who finished 28-9 last season, won the New York Life ACC Tournament and earned the program's 22nd consecutive NCAA Tournament berth, received 57 of 69 first-place votes in the preseason poll released Thursday.
Duke returns senior guard Grayson Allen and welcomes a highly-rated recruiting class led by 6-11 forward Marvin Bagley III – the overwhelming choice as ACC Preseason Rookie of the Year.
Notre Dame senior forward Bonzie Colson was voted ACC Preseason Player of the Year.Colson finished strong at the end of the 2016-17 season, scoring at least 20 points in eight of his final 12 games. He finished the season averaging a double-double with 17.8 points and 10.1 rebounds per game. Colson led the conference in rebounding and ranked ninth among all scorers.
Duke's Bagley, who hails from Phoenix, Arizona, averaged 25.8 points, a league-high 14.9 rebounds and 3.1 blocks per game for the Nike Phamily on the EYBL circuit in 2017. A USA Today All-USA first-team selection as a prep junior in 2017, he averaged 24.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game to lead Sierra Canyon to a 27-3 record.
Colson, Allen and North Carolina's Joel Berry II lead the balloting for the Preseason All-ACC Team. They are joined on the first team by Bagley and Georgia Tech's Ben Lammers.
The Preseason All-ACC Second Team consists of Miami's Bruce Brown Jr., Louisville teammates Quentin Snider and Deng Adel, Georgia Tech's Josh Okogie and Boston College's Jerome Robinson. -
The regular season begins for all 15 ACC teams the weekend of November 10. In addition to an 18-game regular-season conference schedule, the 65th annual New York Life ACC Tournament will be played for the second consecutive year at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, tipping off with first-round games on Tuesday, March 6, and concluding with the Saturday night championship game on March 10.
ACC Operation Basketball 2017-18 Preseason Poll
| No. | School | Points |
| 1. | Duke (57) | 1020 |
| 2. | North Carolina (7) | 921 |
| 3. | Notre Dame (4) | 852 |
| 4. | Miami (1) | 809 |
| 5. | Louisville | 733 |
| 6. | Virginia | 690 |
| 7. | Virginia Tech | 549 |
| 8. | Florida State | 519 |
| 9. | Georgia Tech | 468 |
| 10. | SYRACUSE | 420 |
| 11. | Wake Forest | 378 |
| 12. | NC State | 310 |
| 13. | Clemson | 289 |
| 14. | Boston College | 181 |
| 15. | Pittsburgh | 141 |
(First-place votes in parenthesis)
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