GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – Four Atlantic Coast Conference men’s basketball teams are ranked in the Associated Press Preseason Top 25 Poll, released Monday. Duke leads the ACC contingent at No. 9 in the preseason poll. North Carolina (19), Florida State (20) and Virginia (25) also are ranked.

Virginia Tech, Syracuse, Louisville and Notre Dame received votes in the preseason poll.

Duke is ranked in the AP's preseason top 10 for the 14th consecutive season and  extends the nation's longest streak of being ranked in the top 10 at any point in a season to 26 consecutive years. UNC has been ranked for at least one week in the AP poll in every season since the start of 1966-67. This marks the 929th AP poll that includes UNC, more than any other school in the history of the poll.
 
The 2021-22 regular season opens Nov. 9 with 12 of the 15 ACC teams in non-conference action. League play begins Friday, Dec. 3. The 2022 New York Life ACC Men's Basketball Tournament will be contest March 8-12 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
 
The ACC’s current member schools have captured eight of the last 20 NCAA Championships and 17 overall. Current ACC member schools have combined for 62 Final Four appearances and a national-best 643 NCAA Tournament wins.

Additionally, four of the top eight and six of the top 30 winningest programs in NCAA Division I basketball history currently reside in the ACC. Two of the eight active Division I coaches currently in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame are competing in the ACC again this season – Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim. That is the most of any league nationally.