ACC Basketball: Preseason power rankings for 2021-22 season

Boston College basketball lost a ton of players to the transfer portal and they’ll have a new head coach in Earl Grant to get used to in 2021-22, so expectations shouldn’t be too high for them, just yet.

Grant has a track record of turning programs around, as he’s done at the College of Charleston, where he led them to three 20+ win seasons and the 2018 regular season and conference tournament championship.

He’ll have his hands full trying to turn things around for Boston College in ACC basketball but with Donald Hand Jr. already committed in their 2022 class, things could turn around quickly.

Pittsburgh basketball had an up-and-down season in 2021-22 and with their top three scorers from a season ago gone to the transfer portal, it will be interesting to see how things fare for them in the ACC basketball landscape, though they’ve made moves in the transfer portal themselves.

The addition of graduate transfer Mouhamadou Gueye will certainly bolster their frontcourt presence. He earned AEC Defensive Player of the Year at Stony Brook, producing 9.7 ppg, 7.1 rpg, 3.1 bpg, and 2.0 apg in 2020-21.

They’re a squad looking for somebody new to step up in the lineup with the door of opportunity wide open. Femi Odukale is one name to keep an eye on in that regard.

Year 1 under head coach Steve Forbes went about as expected, with some growing pains for a young group, but they return their top two producers in Daivien Williamson and Isaiah Mucius and add 6-foot-10 big man Khadim Sy and 7-footer Dallas Walton.

Sy’s presence in the frontcourt should change things for them around the rim on both ends. Walton is another name out of Colorado who has developed into quite the defensive presence in the paint as well. If both can adjust, it