A look at next season’s Preseason 2012/2013 Top 25 from www.espn.com with N.C. State the highest ranking ACC team at #7 and that is if C.J.(Calvin) Leslie comes back……Andy Katz at ESPN.com also has North Carolina at #11 and Duke at #15 to go along with State at #7….Read all below and catch the link to see entire poll….
7. NC State
How did this happen so fast? Is North Carolina State really the ACC favorite? Why not. North Carolina and Duke are taking on serious losses, and the Wolfpack overachieved under Mark Gottfried to get to the Sweet 16. C.J. Leslie still hasn’t said for sure whether he’s returning (he has until the NBA’s April 29 deadline). If he doesn’t, perhaps they move down a notch or two. But Gottfried has one of the top recruiting classes in the country coming in with Rodney Purvis, T.J. Warren and Tyler Lewis. So with or without Leslie, this program has a lot to look forward to.
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