The Atlantic Coast Conference has a very different look this year. The league doesn t have a Naismith Hall of Fame coach on the sideline for the first time since 2001.
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The roster under new coach Micah Shrewsberry, hired away from Penn State in March, has the nation's third-lowest percentage of returning scorers, 1.6%. Then again, Notre Dame needed a change after going 11-21 last season and posting a school-worst 3-17 mark in ACC play. Shrewsberry's influence already is showing. Booth, Logan Imes and Shrewsberry's son, Braeden, all decommitted from Penn State and followed Shrewsberry to South Bend.
Duke spent much of its first season under Jon Scheyer building to another Atlantic Coast Conference title. For Duke, that means relying on preseason Associated Press All-American Kyle Filipowski inside and a strong NBA draft prospect in Tyrese Proctor among four returning starters to go with another top recruiting class. Scheyer, in his first full season as Mike Krzyzewski's successor, led Duke to the program's league-record 22nd ACC Tournament title before falling to Tennessee in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.