** 2019-20 ACC Basketball**

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NC State women's basketball adds Mountain West Player of the Year Raina Perez
A 5-foot-4 guard, Perez led the Big West in scoring last season and ranked 14th nationally at 19.8 points per game. She was an efficient scorer at the mid-major level, shooting 46% from the floor, 36% from the 3-point line and 82% from the free throw line.
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Elijah Olaniyi decides to transfer from Stony Brook to Miami

Ex-UNLV guard Jonah Antonio to join Wake Forest as graduate transfer

 

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Gonzaga the new No. 1 in college basketball's Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2020-21
We also have a new No. 1, with Gonzaga overtaking Villanova after the Wildcats sat atop the rankings in the first two versions.

ACC
No.4: Virginia
No.8: Duke
No.14: North Carolina
No.24: Florida State

 

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Louisville 1st in ACC to allow workouts, starting June 8

 

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Maryland 3-point specialist Taylor Mikesell will transfer to Oregon

Amid pandemic, Louisville and UConn cancel neutral-site game

 

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Kentucky, Notre Dame to begin 3-year basketball series this fall
Kentucky is 43-19 against Notre Dame all time, including 8-0 at home, and won the previous meeting 68-66 in a tense 2015 NCAA tournament regional final in Cleveland.

 

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Wisconsin, Michigan State make moves in college basketball's Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2020-21
Wisconsin: No.6, Previous: 7. Michigan State: No.8, Previous: 10

ACC
No.4: Virginia
No.9: Duke
No.14: North Carolina
No.21: Florida State

 

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Joanne McCallie won't return as Duke's women's basketball coach
Duke had an 18-12 record this past season, including a 12-6 mark in the ACC. McCallie leaves Duke with an overall record of 646-255, including her other coaching stints at Maine and Michigan State, where she reached the national championship game and was named AP National Coach of the Year in the 2004-05 season.

 

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Duke tells former coach Gail Goestenkors she is not candidate to replace McCallie
In Goestenkors' 15 seasons, the Blue Devils went 396-99, advanced to the Women's Final Four four times, made nine other NCAA tournament appearances, and won eight ACC regular-season titles and five ACC tournament championships. She was ACC coach of the year seven times.

 

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Louisville halts men's basketball activities after 2 test positive

Louisville has temporarily suspended all men's basketball voluntary activities for two weeks after two members of the program tested positive for the COVID-19 virus, the school announced Tuesday."All proper procedures and protocols are being followed, including the quarantining of those impacted," the school stated. "We look forward to a resumption of men's basketball activities in the near future." A school spokesman told ESPN's David Hale that the individuals testing positive were symptomatic and that everyone who came in contact with them also will be quarantined.

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Women

Duke hires Kara Lawson as women's basketball coach
Lawson, 39, had been an assistant with the Boston Celtics before taking over at Duke. Lawson is the first Black head coach in program history. She is also the fifth Black coach in the ACC. Lawson played in the WNBA from 2003 through 2015, winning the 2005 championship with Sacramento, and was part of the gold-medal-winning 2008 U.S. Olympic team.

 

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New Duke women's basketball coach Kara Lawson hires three assistants

New Duke women's basketball coach Kara Lawson announced the hiring of three assistants Friday, including longtime former Notre Dame assistant Beth Cunningham. Also on the staff will be Tia Jackson, who previously was an assistant at Duke for Gail Goestenkors and has spent the last five years at Miami, and Winston Gandy, who has been at Rice for three seasons. Lawson, a former Tennessee player who spent the past year as an assistant with the NBA's Boston Celtics, was hired by Duke on July 11. This is her first college coaching job, and she had previously said experience would be one of the biggest things she would look for in assistants. Cunningham and Jackson both are coming to Duke from other ACC schools and have been coaching for the past two decades. As a player, Cunningham, then known as Beth Morgan, helped lead Notre Dame to its first Women's Final Four in 1997. After playing professionally, she began as an assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth in 2001 before becoming head coach two years later and staying in that role until 2012.

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Pittsburgh - North Carolina - NC State - Virginia
Miami - Virginia Tech - Florida State - Clemson
Duke - Boston College - Notre Dame - Georgia Tech
Louisville - Wake Forest - Syracuse​

 

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Women

Sara Anastasieska transfers to Duke from California
Anastasieska, a 5-foot-11 guard originally from Australia, Anastasieska will be eligible immediately as a sixth-year graduate transfer. She started 25 games for Cal last season, averaging 7.8 points and 1.8 assists. She also hit 27 3-pointers, more than all but one returnee on the Duke roster she now joins.

 

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DJ Funderburk opts to return to NC State for final season
The 6-foot-10 forward averaged 12.8 points and 6.1 rebounds as a redshirt junior last year. He also averaged a team-best 13.4 points against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents, and he shot nearly 61% from the field last season.

 

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Jay Huff exits NBA draft pool, to return to Virginia for senior season

 

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Baylor takes over No. 1 spot in college basketball's Way-Too-Early Top 25 for 2020-21
The NBA draft early-entry withdrawal deadline has (finally) come and gone, allowing us to truly get a complete feel for the 2020-21 college basketball landscape. The biggest winners of deadline day were Baylor and Illinois, which has created a massive shuffle at the top of the rankings.

The ACC
No.4: Virginia
No.9: Duke
No.15: North Carolina
No.24: Florida State