There's one team in the ACC that Duke has yet to face that has a unique advantage over other teams in the league.

For the second straight year, Duke basketball and head coach Jon Scheyer are the ACC regular season champions.

The top-ranked Duke Blue Devils face the NC State Wolfpack in an ACC contest on Monday, March 2, 2026 at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, N.C.

Star freshman Cameron Boozer scored 26 points and top-ranked Duke shot 55.2% to beat N.C. State 93-64. The win secured the outright Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season title. The Blue Devils

No. 21 North Carolina defeated No. 12 Duke 74-69 in the teams’ ACC regular-season finale on Sunday, March 1, 2026, at Carmichael Arena in Chapel Hill, N.C. The win is the Tar Heels’ first victory over an AP-ranked team this season. Sophomore guard Elina Aarinsalo led the Tar Heels in scoring with a career-high 22 points.

Duke ended the regular season sitting right where the 13th-ranked Blue Devils were expected to be in the Atlantic Coast Conference: atop the standings. The journey there was hardly direct, down to those final steps heading into this week's ACC Tournament as the reigning champion and No.

No. 1-ranked Duke played suffocating defense and never trailed while rolling past Virginia to claim the ACC Tournament’s top seed.

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Never before since the ACC was founded 73 years ago had one of the conference's programs recorded double-digit wins over ranked opponents in a single season. But that changed on Saturday afternoon via Duke basketball's 77-51 victory over the visiting No. 11-ranked Virginia Cavaliers in Cameron Indoor Stadium.