This episode features The Athletic's Brendan Marks to discuss who is shaping up as the biggest competition as Louisville basketball begins ACC play.

Ogden and Somfai are Stanford’s third and fourth winners of ACC weekly awards this season. Nunu Agara was ACC Player of the Week on Nov. 24 and Somfai was ACC Rookie of the Week on Nov. 10. Somfai is the league’s first two-time Rookie of the Week this season.

Even the two ACC teams that didn’t play in the ACC/SEC Challenge had their troubles Wednesday. Wake Forest was hoping for its first 10-0 start since 2008-09, only to fall behind by 25 at home before losing to William & Mary (3-4), while Quinnipiac (4-3) won at Boston College by 27 points.

Good thing it’s basketball season. The difference a year makes.

With the win, Jon Scheyer broke 1960s Duke basketball head coach Vic Bubas' ACC record for the fastest to record 100 victories. Bubas did it in 128 games, and it took Scheyer only 122 (82.0 winning percentage).

In a recent interview with The Associated Press, ACC commissioner Jim Phillips was pleased with his league’s start to the 2025-26 season. That echoed preseason optimism in another AP interview, where he cited school’s enhanced investments and efforts to improve scheduling toward boosting tournament-worthy résumés.

No. 2 Texas outscored UNC 47-25 across the second and third quarters to beat the Tar Heels 79-64 in Austin Thursday night.

With three non-conference tune-ups left this month, Syracuse has work to do before beginning its slate of 18 games in the improved ACC.

And they’ve been bitten by the injury bug early on. Maryland has only had starter Solomon Washington back for three games, guard Myles Rice for five games, and saw star big man Pharrel Payne dodge a serious injury on a scary fall after a dunk.

Kent State will be the first Mid-American Conference team to play a league game in Amherst, and will visit the Mullins Center Saturday afternoon.

RALEIGH — NC State women's basketball went on the road and took care of business in its ACC conference opener, throttling Miami 87-61. After playing one of the most difficult non-conference schedules in the sport, head coach Wes Moore learned a lot about his team, mainly areas where the Wolfpack needed to grow. And grow fast.