2026 ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament

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The All-ACC first team includes Caleb Wilson, Duke's Cameron Boozer, Stanford's Ebuka Okorie, Miami's Mailk Reneau and Virginia's Thijs De Ridder.

The second team includes Henri Veesaar, SMU's Boopie Miller, Wake Forest's Juke Harris, Miami's Tre Donaldson and Louisville's Ryan Conwell.

The third team includes Isaiah Evans, Duke, Mikel Brown Jr., Louisville, Quadir Copeland, NC State, Robert McCray V, Florida State, and Dai Dai Ames, California.

Seth Trimble was Honorable Mention

The rookie team included Wilson, Boozer, Okorie, Louisville's Mikel Brown Jr. and De Ridder.

Player of the Year – Cameron Boozer, Fr., F, Duke
Defensive Player of the Year – Maliq Brown, Sr., F, Duke
Rookie of the Year – Cameron Boozer, F, Duke
Most Improved Player – Juke Harris, So., G, Wake Forest
Sixth Man of the Year – Maliq Brown, Sr., F, Duke
Coach of the Year – Jon Scheyer, Duke

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Wilson & Veesaar Earn All-ACC Honors - University of North Carolina Athletics

Freshman forward Caleb Wilson earned first-team All-ACC honors and red-shirt junior center Henri Veesaar made the second team, the conference announced on Mo...
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Scheyer for COY is stupid. Duke was a Final 4 team last year, finished #3 in the polls, and is obviously a blue blood program that “reloads” rather than “rebuilds”.

Jai Lucas stepped in at UM with no HC experience, turned over the entire coaching staff and roster from a team that had 7 wins last season. He tied a school record for wins in a season (24) and has UM in good position in the ACC and NCAA tourneys.

Yeah, I’m a UM homer—but FFS, gimme a break with Scheyer being COY.
 
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EyeballKid said:
Scheyer for COY is stupid. Duke was a Final 4 team last year, finished #3 in the polls, and is obviously a blue blood program that “reloads” rather than “rebuilds”.

Jai Lucas stepped in at UM with no HC experience, turned over the entire coaching staff and roster from a team that had 7 wins last season. He tied a school record for wins in a season (24) and has UM in good position in the ACC and NCAA tourneys.

Yeah, I’m a UM homer—but FFS, gimme a break with Scheyer being COY.
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When you turnover almost the entire team (Duke) or the entire team (Miami) I don't think the prior year record is relevant at all. There is literally zero overlap between Miami 25 and Miami 26. Miami could have been 40-0 last year and that fact would be equally relevant to how well this particular Miami team would perform.

Lucas certainly did a great job getting an entirely new team to perform as a cohesive unit this year, and he rightfully earned kudos (although Miami's general manager, LJ Rose, deserves some of the love, too).

But Scheyer did a great job this year, too. He also overperformed his preseason projections (which is the primary factor in coach of the year awards) and is the runaway No. 1 overall seed for the NCAAT. If Scheyer didn't get the award this year basically no Duke coach will ever get the award.
 
Calheel said:
When you turnover almost the entire team (Duke) or the entire team (Miami) I don't think the prior year record is relevant at all. There is literally zero overlap between Miami 25 and Miami 26. Miami could have been 40-0 last year and that fact would be equally relevant to how well this particular Miami team would perform.

Lucas certainly did a great job getting an entirely new team to perform as a cohesive unit this year, and he rightfully earned kudos (although Miami's general manager, LJ Rose, deserves some of the love, too).

But Scheyer did a great job this year, too. He also overperformed his preseason projections (which is the primary factor in coach of the year awards) and is the runaway No. 1 overall seed for the NCAAT. If Scheyer didn't get the award this year basically no Duke coach will ever get the award.
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Nope.

I think/hope you’d agree that recruiting and working the transfer portal is far easier task as an experienced coach at a blue-blood program who took his team to the final 4 last season…rather than a coach with no HC experience stepping into a job at a decent-but-not-great program with a mediocre atmosphere (at best).

It’s not just turning over the roster, mind you. It’s putting together an entirely new coaching staff AND roster.

All while matching a school record for wins in a season.
 
EyeballKid said:
Nope.

I think/hope you’d agree that recruiting and working the transfer portal is far easier task as an experienced coach at a blue-blood program who took his team to the final 4 last season…rather than a coach with no HC experience stepping into a job at a decent-but-not-great program with a mediocre atmosphere (at best).

It’s not just turning over the roster, mind you. It’s putting together an entirely new coaching staff AND roster.

All while matching a school record for wins in a season.
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All true.

But none of that changes the fact Miami's record last year is not relevant to Jai Lucas performance this year. Certainly the lack of historical success and fan support is relevant, but not last year's record.

Also, roster construction is generally not a consideration in coach of the year voting (and is arguably more attributable to the general manager anyway).
 
Calheel said:
All true.

But none of that changes the fact Miami's record last year is not relevant to Jai Lucas performance this year. Certainly the lack of historical success and fan support is relevant, but not last year's record.

Also, roster construction is generally not a consideration in coach of the year voting (and is arguably more attributable to the general manager anyway).
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And none of what you just posted changes the fact that Boozer is the biggest reason for Duke’s success this season—which has little to do with coaching.
 
EyeballKid said:
And none of what you just posted changes the fact that Boozer is the biggest reason for Duke’s success this season—which has little to do with coaching.
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Agreed that if Scheyer had Miami's roster, he likely wouldn't have done better than Jai. But he had Duke's roster and did really well with it.

I think Jai had a good argument, as did Scheyer and Odom. Unfortunately, I think Scheyer may well be a better coach than K - at least post 2015 K. In particular, his teams seem to play very sound defensive basketball. He is not just rolling the ball out to talented players and telling them to do their thing.
 
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Agreed that if Scheyer had Miami's roster, he likely wouldn't have done better than Jai. But he had Duke's roster and did really well with it.

I think Jai had a good argument, as did Scheyer and Odom. Unfortunately, I think Scheyer may well be a better coach than K - at least post 2015 K. In particular, his teams seem to play very sound defensive basketball. He is not just rolling the ball out to talented players and telling them to do their thing.
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Again, my point is that in terms of relative difficulty/relative success given the status of the respective programs, Jai did a more impressive job.

No doubt Scheyer is a great coach. But as your post seems to acknowledge, given Miami’s roster, it’s unlikely he’d have done a better job than Jai. And given that Scheyer is in his 4th year as an HC whereas Lucas is in his first, that would seem to indicate Lucas should be lauded for his job this season over Scheyer.

To be clear, preseason conference rankings had Duke predicted as #1 in the ACC, whereas UM was predicted to finish 8th.
 
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Got plenty of work to do today but I plan on doing it in front of the TV.

Pulling for Pitt (though sinkhole would work), U of L, FSU, and WFU.


Second round -- Wednesday, March 11
Game 4: No. 7 seed NC State vs. Pitt | Noon on ESPN
Game 5: No. 6 seed Louisville vs. SMU | 2:30 p.m. on ESPN
Game 6: No. 8 seed Florida State vs. No. 9 seed California | 7 p.m. on ESPN2/ESPNU
Game 7: No. 5 seed Clemson vs. Wake Forest | 9:30 p.m. on ESPN2/ESPNU
 
EyeballKid said:
Again, my point is that in terms of relative difficulty/relative success given the status of the respective programs, Jai did a more impressive job.

No doubt Scheyer is a great coach. But as your post seems to acknowledge, given Miami’s roster, it’s unlikely he’d have done a better job than Jai. And given that Scheyer is in his 4th year as an HC whereas Lucas is in his first, that would seem to indicate Lucas should be lauded for his job this season over Scheyer.

To be clear, preseason conference rankings had Duke predicted as #1 in the ACC, whereas UM was predicted to finish 8th.
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He stole a Duke commit to do it too
 
EyeballKid said:
And none of what you just posted changes the fact that Boozer is the biggest reason for Duke’s success this season—which has little to do with coaching.
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It's a bit of a disingenuous argument. If great players made the coach, Bill Self and BYU's coach would be in the running for COY.

I will say that if Scheyer has won it last year, as could have been justified as well, that Lucas probably would have won it this year. Jai was certainly deserving, but so was Scheyer.

I realize that this is a Carolina board, but the fact that this is the first COY a Duke coach has won since 2000 despite 3 national championships, 3 other final fours and multiple ACC championships, is laughable.
 
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I realize that this is a Carolina board, but the fact that this is the first COY a Duke coach has won since 2000 despite 3 national championships, 3 other final fours and multiple ACC championships, is laughable.
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Is it really the first in 26 years? I had no idea! That is freaking wild (and I also fully acknowledge that K did not coach much after 2010...was definitely the "roll the ball out and play" sort of stuff)
 
If Scheyer isn't COY how does one land at Jai Lucas over Ryan Odom?

Miami had one of the easier conference schedules and finished 2 games back from UVA

Didn't play duke, no CA road trip, 0-2 vs Clemson and Louisville. I'm not sure they beat UNC if Caleb doesn't get hurt
 
I have no problem with Scheyer being COY, but it has been somewhat a mystery as to whether the COY is based upon overall team performance or team performance compared to pre season expectations.

today :
GO PITT !!!
SMU
Cal
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Heelsandeers said:
Didn't play duke, no CA road trip, 0-2 vs Clemson and Louisville. I'm not sure they beat UNC if Caleb doesn't get hurt
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"Didn't play duke, no CA road trip, 0-2 vs Clemson and Louisville. I'm not sure they beat UNC if Caleb doesn't get hurt."

No CA is a big one...maybe Odom ought to be considered a bit more.
 
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