Duke's Banchero, Williams win ACC awards; UNC's Bacot lands on all-conference team
Posted March 7, 2022 9:47 a.m. EST
Updated March 7, 2022 12:59 p.m. EST
Greensboro, N.C. — The ACC men's basketball awards were unveiled for the 2021-2022 season on Monday.
Wake Forest was well-represented among award winners as Alondes Williams won Conference Player of the Year and Steve Forbes took Coach of the Year honors.
Williams received 41 votes for Player of the Year, beating UNC's Armando Bacot, who got 31. Bacot, coming off a huge 23-point performance in Saturday's win against Duke, was named All-ACC.
Williams averaged 19.3 points, 6.7 rebounds and a league-high 5.3 assists per game for the Demon Deacons in his first season in Winston-Salem.
Duke freshman Paolo Banchero won Rookie of the Year honors and teammate Mark Williams was tabbed Defensive Player of the Year. Banchero, who averaged 17.1 points and 7.7 rebounds a game, is the fourth Duke player in the last five years to win the award. Mark Williams led the ACC with 2.81 blocked shots per game.
NC State's Dereon Seabron was the league's Most Improved Player while Florida State's Matthew Cleveland was Sixth Man of the Year. Seabron landed on the second team along with Duke's Wendell Moore Jr.
2021-2022 ACC Award Winners
Player of Year: Alondes Williams, Wake Forest
Rookie of Year: Paolo Banchero, Duke
Coach of Year: Steve Forbes, Wake Forest
Defensive Player of Year: Mark Williams, Duke
Most Improved Player: Dereon Seabron, NC State
Sixth Man of Year: Matthew Cleveland, Florida State
First Team
- Armando Bacot, North Carolina, 380
- Alondes Williams, Wake Forest, 373
- Paolo Banchero, Duke, 372
- Kameron McGusty, Miami, 315
- Buddy Boeheim, Syracuse, 241
Second Team
- Keve Aluma, Virginia Tech, 192
- Dereon Seabron, NC State, 166
- Wendell Moore Jr., Duke, 161
- Blake Wesley, Notre Dame, 148
- Jake LaRavia, Wake Forest, 147
Third Team
- Dane Goodwin, Notre Dame, 131
- Mark Williams, Duke, 119
- Isaiah Wong, Miami, 119
- Jayden Gardner, Virginia, 106
- Michael Devoe, Georgia Tech, 105
Honorable Mention
- Caleb Love, North Carolina, 84
- PJ Hall, Clemson, 72
- John Hugley, Pitt, 54
- Charlie Moore, Miami, 42
- Brady Manek, North Carolina, 38
- Kihei Clark, Virginia, 22
- AJ Griffin, Duke, 22
- Paul Atkinson Jr., Notre Dame, 20
- Terquavion Smith, NC State, 15
- Reece Beekman, Virginia, 15
The teams were determined by a 78-member panel of head coaches and media members. Players get five points for a first team vote, three points for a second team vote and one point for a third team vote.
