The Chronicle's annual 20-page ACC Basketball Preview hit newsstands today. Be sure to pick one up if your on either of Duke's campuses or the Duke Medical Center. Inside you'll find everything you need to know about the upcoming Duke basketball season: analysis, player breakdowns, team-by-team previews and more.
Here are all the links from the ACC basketball preview that you should make sure to read as you get ready for the season to kick off:
Men's basketball
- On the eve of Jabari Parker's first collegiate game, the expectations on the 6-foot-8 freshman are higher than ever, by Daniel Carp
- Redshirt sophomore Rodney Hood's leadership style is just like his game—quiet, yet effective. More on Hood's silent swagger, by Andrew Beaton
- Andre Dawkins spent more than a year away from the game of basketball. He hasn't lost his 3-point stroke, but he's gained quite a few other things along the way, by Andrew Beaton
- The name of the game for Duke will be speed on both ends of the floor, which required a new level of strength and conditioning work in the offseason, by Ryan Hoerger
- Jabari Parker may be getting all the hype, but freshmen Matt Jones and Semi Ojeleye are turning their fair share of heads for the Blue Devils thus far, by Bobby Colton
- Senior captains Josh Hairston and Tyler Thornton know they won't be lighting up the scoreboard this season, but they've each found their own ways to lead by example, by Danny Nolan
- Team-by-team previews of the entire ACC in their predicted order of finish: Duke, Syracuse, North Carolina, Virginia, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Boston College, Maryland, Georgia Tech, Florida State, N.C. State, Wake Forest, Miami, Clemson, Virginia Tech
- We also break down every single opponent on Duke's schedule, including marquee nonconference contests against Kansas, Michigan and UCLA
- Returning five starters and 93.7 percent of its scoring, the experienced Blue Devils are eyeing a trip to the Final Four, by Aaron Kupin
- The return of All-American Chelsea Gray gives Duke not one, but two of the nation's top point guards, by Brian Pollack
- Freshmen Oderah Chidom and Kendall McCravey-Cooper have a bond that stretches all the way back to their high school careers in California, by Brian Mazur
- It's final four or bust for Duke women's basketball this season, opines Jay Sullivan
- A difficult schedule and the new-look ACC will be too much to handle for the Blue Devils to reach the promised land, opines Amrith Ramkumar
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