As part of its 2023–24 men’s basketball preseason coverage, Sports Illustrated is rolling out previews for each of the six high-major conferences. First up is the ACC.
The ACC stumbled to seventh in KenPom’s conference rankings last season, the lowest the league has been in the history of the site, which dates back to 1997. After substantial coaching turnover at some of the conference’s top programs in recent years, a step back may have been inevitable. Still, this feels like a critical year for the ACC as a whole to bounce back and prove that recent struggles are more of an aberration than a growing trend.
