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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It seems like an annual rite of the preseason to pick Notre Dame to win the Atlantic Coast Conference.The three-time defending champion Fighting Irish were selected Wednesday to win the ACC again. Theyve been the favorite every year since joining the conference before the 2013-14 season.Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw knows it wont be easy to win a fourth straight title.This league is getting better every year, she said. We have a lot of young talent to go along with a strong veteran group, but there are a lot of really good teams in this conference.To win a fourth consecutive conference title, the Irish will have to do it in a new venue. The ACC announced Wednesday that its conference tournament would relocate from Greensboro, North Carolina, to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, because of a state law that restricts the rights of LGBT people. The ACC pulled 10 neutral-site championships out of North Carolina last month because of the law.Its been a difficult time in the state with lots of things, Duke coach Joanne P. McCallie said. I feel for the conference for the adjustments they had to make so late. We didnt want to ever leave Greensboro, nothing could match that. Credit to the conference for finding an appropriate place that could handle us at that late hour.Coastal Carolina will host the tournament from March 1-5. It will be the conferences seventh appearance in South Carolina and first since a five-year run in Rock Hill from 1992-96. ACC womens basketball associate commissioner Nora Lynn Finch said the conference also looked at sites in Florida and Virginia as possible hosts.Myrtle Beach had everything we were looking for in a site and was able to accommodate us for what we needed, Finch said.She didnt know if Myrtle Beach was going to be a one-year site.Thats out of our hands, we love Greensboro, she said. Greensboros been the gold standard for womens basketball tournaments. ... We hope its one year, but we dont know. That rests in the hands of state government.North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell was a big fan of the move. She has a house in the area and has taken her team to Myrtle Beach to play for the last 22 years.I love it, Hatchell said of the relocation. We get better crowds down there than we do in Chapel Hill. They love us, they love womens basketball. ... Theyll have a great setup.Challenging the Irish will be Louisville and Florida State, who are second and third in the preseason poll. Syracuse, fresh off its appearance in the NCAA championship game, was picked fourth.Miami, Duke, North Carolina State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Virginia round out the first 10. Wake Forest, Virginia Tech, Boston College, Pitt and Clemson finish out the voting.The Cardinals are led by returning conference player of the year Myisha Hines-Allen. She also was selected as the preseason player of the year.Its an honor, Hines-Allen said. Seeing the coaches and media recognize me as one of the best players in this conference, which is the best conference in the country, is a blessing.Joining the Louisville junior on the preseason squad were teammates Asia Durr and Mariya Moore; Rebecca Greenwell of Duke; Leticia Romero and Shakayla Thomas of Florida State; Adrienne Motley of Miami; Lindsay Allen and Brianna Turner of Notre Dame; and Alexis Peterson of Syracuse.---Follow Doug on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/dougfeinberg Clearance Air Vapormax . Pirlo limped out of Sundays 1-0 win over Udinese after just 13 minutes. Juventus says Pirlo underwent tests on Monday which revealed he has "a second-degree lesion to the collateral medial ligament in his right knee. Vapormax Online . 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Aside from a postseason getaway to Cancun, Mexico, and attending friends weddings every other weekend, its been a summer of intense rehab for Tampa Bay Lightning and Team USA goaltender Ben Bishop, who said hes physically and mentally ready to take on the world in the World Cup of Hockey.From a personal standpoint, Bishop, 29, has plenty of unfinished business to attend to when he and the rest of Team USA report to Columbus, Ohio, for the start of World Cup training camp on Sept. 5.Injured in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals, which the Lightning lost in seven games to eventual Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins, Bishop said his strained ankle ligaments are completely healed, allowing him to hit the ice a month earlier than normal this summer.Bishop, a 6-foot-7, 216-pound native of Denver, went 8-2 with a 1.85 goals-against average and a .939 save percentage in last seasons playoffs and is expected to challenge Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick and New Jersey Devils netminder Cory Schneider for the starting job with Team USA, which will be coached by Columbus Blue Jackets bench boss John Tortorella.I feel good, said Bishop, who was a backup to John Gibson when the U.S. won the bronze medal in the 2013 IIHF Mens World Championship. Ive been doing rehab all summer, and Im stronger this summer than I was last summer going into camp as far as test results. Thats a good thing.Bishop said hes especially eager to see who will start in goal for the Americans when they open their World Cup pre-tournament schedule with a Sept. 9 game against Canada at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. The eight-team tournament starts for real on Sept. 17 in Toronto and ends on Oct. 1.Its going to be a little different than NHL exhibition games, Bishop said. Canada-U.S.? I dont think thats going to be an ease-in process. Exhibition games are going to be a little more intense, especially for goalies who like to slowly get into it. My first game could be against Team Canada, but after practicing for a week and some intrasquad scrimmages, Im sure Ill be ready.With eight rosters filled with NHL stars, ESPN.com quizzed Bishop on which World Cup opponents have the best offensive skills in a variety of categories:Hardest shot: Alex Ovechkin, RussiaHes got one of the best shots in the game. Its really tough to read off of his stick. He usually comes down on it almost like a knuckle ball. Its tough to read.Most accurate shot: Steven Stamkos, CanadaLuckily, hes on my team in Tampa, but Ive seen him score a lot of goals. Hopefully I can keep them out if hes shooting against me. I think [Vladimir] Tarasenko from Russias got one of the best wrist shots in the game. Some guys have a heavy, hard shot and its got more weight behind it, but a guy like Steven Stamkos has one of the more accurate shots in the game.dddddddddddd I dont think its as hard as others, but he can put it wherever he wants. Theres a big difference.Shootout specialist: T.J. Oshie, United StatesIm glad hes on my team. Everybody saw what he did in the [2014] Olympics, so its nice to have a guy like that on your team and not have to go against him. I think Tarasenko is one of the better guys in the league in shootouts. Jonathan Toews and Sidney Crosby -- those guys can be pretty lethal in a shootout.Best setup man: Nicklas Backstrom, Sweden[He] is one of the better passers in the league, I think. Sidney Crosby, obviously. Those guys stand out, especially Backstrom. The Sedins [Henrik?and Daniel], those guys can find each other almost anywhere on the ice. Its hard to pick because every team has great talent. I mean, every teams got two top lines that will be future Hall of Famers.Speediest forward: Pick a Team North America forwardIm just happy I dont have to race up and down the ice with those guys. Im sure some of those young guns on Team North America [Connor McDavid, Jack Eichel, Johnny Gaudreau, Dylan Larkin] will be pretty quick. Theyve got a lot of fresh, young legs -- thats for sure. Its almost all top-10 picks in the last few years and all those players are supposed to be stars in this league. I dont think anybody is going to take them lightly. They have a lot of skill, and they kind of have nothing to lose, so theyre going to be one of the more dangerous teams, I believe.The Lightning and Chicago Blackhawks lead all NHL teams with 12 players competing in the World Cup, and Bishop said the chirping has already begun.Im sure theres going to be lots of friendly fire when we get to Columbus, said Bishop, who will sport a glow-in-the-dark mask for the tournament. Itll be fun-hearted until we step on the ice, and then its going to be all business. Its obviously a big tournament, but its going to be fun to play against your teammates, which doesnt happen too often.Team USA will begin the tournament in a group with Canada, the Czech Republic and Team Europe, while Group B will consist of Russia, Sweden, Finland and Team North America. The top two finishers in Groups A and B will advance to the semifinals, with the semifinal winners facing off in a best-of-three finals.You cant predict, Bishop said. I think the way the tournament is set up its going to be fun because I think every team has a legitimate chance to win. ' ' '