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Syracuse basketball expected to finish 5th in ACC; no players receive preseason ACC honors

Syracuse placed fifth in the preseason Atlantic Coast Conference poll and no players received preseason All-ACC honors at the conference’s media day in Charlotte, North Carolina on Wednesday.

Duke took first in the poll with 935 points and 41 first-place votes, followed by North Carolina (870 points and 12 first-place votes), Louisville (847 points and three first-place votes) and Virginia (824 points and seven first-place votes).

The Orange received 706 points and two first-place votes. SU finished second in the ACC preseason poll a year ago and came in second at the end of the regular season.

A year after forward C.J. Fair earned the ACC’s preseason player of the year award and preseason first-team honors, Syracuse went without an All-ACC honoree.

North Carolina’s Marcus Paige was named the conference’s preseason player of the year and headed a first team that included Notre Dame guard Jerian Grant, Virginia guard Malcolm Brogdon, Louisville forward Montrezl Harrell and Duke center Jahlil Okafor, who garnered the ACC’s preseason freshman of the year honor.



Following Syracuse to round out the poll were:

6. Pittsburgh
7. Notre Dame
8. Florida State
9. North Carolina State
10. Miami
11. Clemson
12. Wake Forest
13. Georgia Tech
14. Boston College
15. Virginia Tech





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