Beth Mowins tabs high-powered Duke as the pre-season favorite in an updated Atlantic Coast Conference preview for ESPN.

The New York Times' Frank Litsky writes about Cappie Pondexter and Charde Houston - two Big East players he calls 'perhaps the two most gifted women's basketball players in the Big East, which is perhaps the strongest conference in the nation'.

Cappie on Cappie:

She comes with a lot of responsibility. She's unselfish. She has the will to win. She's very coachable. But sometimes she plays down to the level of competition. If she plays the way she can, her team could win the national championship