{"id":303672,"date":"2025-10-14T21:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303672\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T21:44:10","slug":"markus-burton-named-preseason-first-team-all-acc-irish-picked-to-finish-10th-in-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303672\/","title":{"rendered":"Markus Burton named preseason first team All-ACC, Irish picked to finish 10th in league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) \u2014 Penn grad Markus Burton is the first Notre Dame player selected to the preseason first team All-ACC list since John Mooney in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Burton averaged a league-best 21.3 points per game last year as a sophomore and was a second-team all-conference selection.<\/p>\n<p>He also improved from beyond the arc, going from a 30.0 percent shooter freshman year to 37.5 percent as a sophomore. In ACC play, he shot 40.2 percent from deep.<\/p>\n<p>Burton was also tied third for ACC preseason player of the year voting, alongside former Irish guard JJ Starling of Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame was picked to finish 10th out of the 18 teams in the league.<\/p>\n<p>2025 ACC Preseason Poll<\/p>\n<p>School, Points<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Duke (34), 866<\/li>\n<li>Louisville (15), 842<\/li>\n<li>North Carolina, 741<\/li>\n<li>NC State, 710<\/li>\n<li>Virginia, 623<\/li>\n<li>SMU, 616<\/li>\n<li>Clemson, 510<\/li>\n<li>Miami, 500<\/li>\n<li>Syracuse, 489<\/li>\n<li>Notre Dame, 477<\/li>\n<li>Wake Forest, 412<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Tech, 355<\/li>\n<li>Georgia Tech, 315<\/li>\n<li>Pitt, 301<\/li>\n<li>Florida State, 221<\/li>\n<li>California, 156<\/li>\n<li>Stanford, 138<\/li>\n<li>Boston College, 107<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>First-place votes in parentheses; 49 total voters<\/p>\n<p>2025-26 Preseason All-ACC Team<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Name, School, Votes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cameron Boozer, Duke, 46<\/li>\n<li>Darrion Williams, NC State, 45<\/li>\n<li>Markus Burton, Notre Dame, 46<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Brown Jr., Louisville, 36<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Conwell, Louisville, 36<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Second Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boopie Miller, SMU, 27<\/li>\n<li>J.J. Starling, Syracuse, 27<\/li>\n<li>Isaiah Evans, Duke, 24<\/li>\n<li>Baye Ndongo, Georgia Tech, 24<\/li>\n<li>Caleb Wilson, North Carolina, 24<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>ACC Preseason Player of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Darrion Williams, NC State, 23 votes<\/li>\n<li>Cameron Boozer, Duke, 19<\/li>\n<li>J.J. Starling, Syracuse, 2<\/li>\n<li>Markus Burton, Notre Dame, 2<\/li>\n<li>Donald Hand Jr., Boston College, 1<\/li>\n<li>Baye Ndongo, Georgia Tech, 1<\/li>\n<li>Caleb Wilson, North Carolina, 1<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WSBT) \u2014 Penn grad Markus Burton is the first Notre Dame player selected to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":303673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[154118,154117,1339,154119,154120,154116,1317,1337,1338,19414,8730,36016,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-303672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-acc-player-of-the-year","9":"tag-all-acc","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-john-mooney","12":"tag-league-finish","13":"tag-markus-burton","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-basketball","16":"tag-ncaabasketball","17":"tag-notre-dame","18":"tag-points-per-game","19":"tag-preseason","20":"tag-sports","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115374710171214025","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}