2025 ACC Season Preview & Predictions -- Can Anyone STOP Duke?

Eye On College Basketball

CBS Sports

Sports, Basketball

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

With less than four weeks until the start of the season, it's time to start the conference previews! First up -- the ACC. And the prevailing question revolves around stopping Duke and whether there is a team that can do it. The guys break down everything you need to know about the Atlantic Coast Conference today!

01:18 - Is Duke a certainty to win the ACC?

11:03 - Five Big Storylines - Cam Boozer is the next Big Thing for Duke?

14:54 - Five Big Storylines - Louisville is Duke's Biggest Threat in the ACC

20:10 - Five Big Storylines - Hubert Davis is on the Hot Seat

27:37 - Five Big Storylines - Will Wade has the NC State fanbase amped

33:34 - Five Big Storylines - Ryan Odom takes the reins at Virginia 37:44 - How many teams will the ACC send to the NCAA Tournament?

43:00 - Predictions!!

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0:00.0	Gary Parrish, welcome back to the CBS Sports I-on college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss Campbell fighting.
0:20.1	Dodo Burns and leaky black
0:21.5	cow boo is here with me.
0:22.9	You know what to do.
0:25.1	You know what to do.
0:25.2	Don't like button shouts to Brandon Davies.
0:26.7	And if you haven't yet subscribed to the CBS Sports, college basketball YouTube channel,
0:30.7	please also do that while you're here.
0:33.4	Let's get into it.
0:34.6	Today we are starting to preview some of college basketball's very best conferences.
0:39.6	We're going to be doing these over a span of four weeks.
0:43.1	It's always a fun exercise.
0:44.4	And today, in the spirit of, I don't know, let's call it alphabetical order,
0:48.8	we're going to start with the Atlantic Coast Conference where Duke is trying to win back-to-back
0:53.2	outright league titles after going 19 and
0:56.0	one in the ACC last season. KB, let's stop right here. Good to see you on this Monday. Obviously,
1:02.3	Duke is the favorite in the ACC. Let me ask you this question this way. If I offered you $10 million,
1:08.0	if I said strong job, I got 10 million, and I'm going to give it to you,
1:16.3	all you got to do is correctly identify one future power conference champion.
1:18.0	Would Duke be your pick?
1:22.9	In other words, in your mind, is Duke more likely to win the ACC than any other Power Conference team is likely to win whatever power conference it happens to be in.
1:30.1	Yeah, good morning.
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