ACC Basketball: Top 5 storylines for 2016-17 season
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The official start to the 2016-17 NCAA basketball season is just around the corner and there’ll be no shortage of excitement in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Amongst all of the anticipation and expectations exist a handful of storylines that fans will undoubtedly be anxious to watch play out.
Not unlike a Hollywood movie or Broadway play, the rising action can be just as entertaining as the climax. Fans need not wait until the month of March for nail-biting drama.
And in college basketball’s premiere conference, that’s especially likely to be the case.
A Duke team that boasts as much freshman talent as we’ve seen in recent years. An experienced North Carolina squad that returns the majority of its starters from a season ago. A Virginia program that threatens the aforementioned perennial powers for conference supremacy.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the ACC’s top five storylines for the 2016-17 college basketball season.