The Devil's Den: A Duke Athletics Podcast
Oct 16, 2026 · 51 min · 13 segments
Josh, Dustin, and Raul react to the Preseason ACC Media Poll before previewing next week’s exhibition against Tennessee. (3:30) - Duke picked by media to win ACC (16:05) - All-ACC teams (24:20)…
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I do think they're going to get pushed as close, like, closer than they have the last two years.
And then you had, I think, Virginia was kind of trailing there a little bit against them this past year.
I mean, it was pretty unanimous that Duke was going to kind of run away with this thing.
That's practically unanimous.
That's kind of what I noticed there.
Yeah, look, for me, I mean, I hope it comes true.
I think this will be the first time we've won back-to-back-to-back regular season titles and I don't know, early 90s.
I'd have to go back and look and check that, but it's been a while.
You know, we notoriously went through a stretch there in the kind of the later K years where we didn't win an ACC regular title for a long time.
was it maybe like was it
his last year i don't know man it was it was a long time yeah yeah yeah they went along a long time i'll have to fact check that somewhere on the way there but uh yeah that's kind of
yeah i guess i guess the other thing for me is like you know um I think we do have the most talented team, but as we've talked about in the past, the unbalanced scheduling can really kind of set you up for a tougher path.
I do think they're going to get pushed as close, like, closer than they have the last two years.
And then you had, I think, Virginia was kind of trailing there a little bit against them this past year.
I mean, it was pretty unanimous that Duke was going to kind of run away with this thing.
That's practically unanimous.
That's kind of what I noticed there.
Yeah, look, for me, I mean, I hope it comes true.
I think this will be the first time we've won back-to-back-to-back regular season titles and I don't know, early 90s.
I'd have to go back and look and check that, but it's been a while.
You know, we notoriously went through a stretch there in the kind of the later K years where we didn't win an ACC regular title for a long time.
was it maybe like was it
his last year i don't know man it was it was a long time yeah yeah yeah they went along a long time i'll have to fact check that somewhere on the way there but uh yeah that's kind of
yeah i guess i guess the other thing for me is like you know um I think we do have the most talented team, but as we've talked about in the past, the unbalanced scheduling can really kind of set you up for a tougher path.
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