{"id":1929610,"date":"2026-08-25T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929610"},"modified":"2026-08-25T22:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:44:02","slug":"duke-women-picked-to-finish-6th-men-9th-in-acc-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1929610","title":{"rendered":"Duke Women Picked to Finish 6th, Men 9th in ACC Preseason Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY - OCTOBER 31: Athletes compete in the ACC Cross Country Championships at E.P. Tom Sawyer Park on October 31 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Photo by Chris Carter\/theACC.com)\" src=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2025\/10\/31\/CC_ACC_XC_CHAMPIONSHIPS_0516.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 The Atlantic Coast Conference announced the results from its 2026 Preseason Cross Country Poll of the league&#8217;s 18 head coaches Tuesday afternoon and the Duke women were picked to finish sixth, while the men are slated to take ninth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/news\/2026\/8\/25\/cross-country-duke-women-picked-to-finish-6th-men-9th-in-acc-preseason-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 The Atlantic Coast Conference announced the results from its 2026 Preseason Cross Country Poll of the league&#8217;s 18 head coaches Tuesday afternoon and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1929611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","wpcat-82-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1929610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929612,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929610\/revisions\/1929612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}