Duke freshman guard/forward Cooper Flagg has been voted the Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year, highlighting the 2024-25 All-ACC Men’s Basketball Team and award winners, which were announced Monday, March 10, by the conference office.
The 2024-25 All-ACC Team was determined by an 81-member panel consisting of the league’s 18 head coaches and 63 members of the media.
Louisville senior guard Chucky Hepburn claimed ACC Defensive Player of the Year laurels, while his coach, Pat Kelsey, was tabbed ACC Coach of the Year. Boston College’s Donald Hand Jr. notched the ACC’s Most Improved Player award and California’s Jeremiah Wilkinson was picked as the Sixth Man of the Year.
Flagg was the overwhelming pick from the voting panel as Player of the Year, earning the nod on 75 of 81 ballots. He joins former Duke standouts Jahlil Okafor (2015), Marvin Bagley III (2018) and Zion Williamson (2019) as the only players in ACC history to be chosen as the league’s Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year in the same season.
Flagg ranks among the ACC’s top 10 this season in points (third, 19.4/game), rebounds (eighth, 7.6), assists (eighth, 4.2), steals (10th, 1.5) and blocks (eighth, 1.3). The native of Newport, Maine, is a finalist for the John R. Wooden Award, presented to the nation’s most outstanding player. He also is a finalist for the 2025 Julius Erving Award, presented to the top small forward in the country. He was named ACC Rookie of the Week a record 12 times this season.
In his first season at the helm of Louisville, Kelsey has led a remarkable turnaround for the Cardinals, who own a 25-6 record and finished in a second-place tie in the ACC regular-season standings at 18-2. Louisville earned its highest ACC Tournament seed in program history, just a year after a last-place finish and the No. 15 seed at the 2024 ACC Tournament.
While Kelsey is Louisville’s first ACC Coach of the Year honoree, Hepburn is the Cardinals’ first player to be tabbed ACC Defensive Player of the Year. The Omaha, Nebraska, native leads the conference in steals this season with 73 (2.43 per game). He heads up the Cardinals’ defensive effort and in addition to his staunch on-ball defense on the perimeter has averaged 16.3 points and 5.9 assists per game, which rank 11th and third in the ACC, respectively. He was named to the Naismith Trophy Midseason Watch List earlier this season.
Hand Jr. is the second BC player in the last three years to earn the ACC Most Improved Player honor, joining Quinten Post in 2023. The native of Virginia Beach, Virginia, averaged a team-best 15.7 points per game this season, boosting his scoring average by 10.7 points per game from a season ago and ranking 15th in the ACC. That jump is the third best among all ACC players this season. He also led the team in rebounding at 6.1 rebounds per game.
Wilkinson has made a tremendous impression during his freshman campaign in picking up ACC Sixth Man of the Year honors. In 31 games, he is averaging 15.4 points per game, but he has averaged 17.0 points per game in league play, which is seventh among all players. He owns 10 20-point games this season.
Duke led all schools with three honorees on the All-ACC first, second and third teams, while Clemson and Louisville each had two. The All-ACC first team features Flagg, Hepburn, Stanford’s Maxime Raynaud (20.1 ppg, 10.9 rpg, NCAA-leading 23 double-doubles), Clemson’s Chase Hunter (16.0 ppg) and Wake Forest’s Hunter Sallis (18.0 ppg), who earned first team honors for the second straight season.
The second team consists of North Carolina’s RJ Davis (17.3 ppg), Notre Dame’s Markus Burton (ACC-leading 22.2 ppg), Clemson’s Ian Schieffelin (12.9 ppg, 9.3 rpg), Duke’s Kon Knueppel (13.6 ppg) and Florida State’s Jamir Watkins (18.5 ppg).
The All-ACC third team includes Louisville’s Terrence Edwards Jr. (15.8 ppg), Duke’s Tyrese Proctor (11.5 ppg), Georgia Tech’s Baye Ndongo (13.6 ppg, 9.1 rpg), SMU’s Boopie Miller (13.4, 5.7 apg) and Pitt’s Jaland Lowe (16.8 ppg, 5.5 apg).
2024-25 ACC AWARDS
Player of the Year – Cooper Flagg, Fr., G/F, Duke
Defensive Player of the Year – Chucky Hepburn, Sr., G, Louisville
Rookie of the Year – Cooper Flagg, G/F, Duke
Most Improved Player – Donald Hand Jr., So., Boston College
Sixth Man of the Year – Jeremiah Wilkinson, Fr., G, California
Coach of the Year – Pat Kelsey, Louisville
2024-25 ALL-ACC TEAM
FIRST TEAM
Name, School, Points
Cooper Flagg, Duke, 400
Maxime Raynaud, Stanford, 392
Chucky Hepburn, Louisville, 364
Chase Hunter, Clemson, 328
Hunter Sallis, Wake Forest, 257
SECOND TEAM
RJ Davis, North Carolina, 241
Markus Burton, Notre Dame, 238
Ian Schieffelin, Clemson, 225
Kon Knueppel, Duke, 208
Jamir Watkins, Florida State, 150
THIRD TEAM
Terrence Edwards Jr., Louisville, 125
Tyrese Proctor, Duke, 72
Baye Ndongo, Georgia Tech, 72
Boopie Miller, SMU, 71
Jaland Lowe, Pitt, 62
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Matthew Cleveland, Miami, 49
Andrej Stojakovic, California, 48
Naithan George, Georgia Tech, 40
Isaac McKneely, Virginia, 38
J.J. Starling, Syracuse, 32
Donald Hand Jr., Boston College, 29
Cameron Hildreth, Wake Forest, 26
Khaman Maluach, Duke, 23
Viktor Lakhin, Clemson, 20
Eddie Lampkin, Syracuse, 19
Note: All-ACC Team points are determined on a 5-3-1 system (five points for first team, three points for second team, one point for third team).
Player of the Year
Cooper Flagg, Duke, 76 votes
Maxime Raynaud, Stanford, 4
Chucky Hepburn, Louisville, 1
Defensive Player of the Year
Chucky Hepburn, Louisville, 32 votes
Cooper Flagg, Duke, 26
Jaeden Zackery, Clemson, 8
Zack Austin, Pitt, 4
Maliq Brown, Duke, 3
Chad Venning, Boston College, 2
Khaman Maluach, Duke, 2
Sion James, Duke, 1
Mady Sissoko, California, 1
Tae Davis, Notre Dame 1
Cameron Hildreth, Wake Forest 1
Rookie of the Year
Cooper Flagg, Duke, 79 votes
Jeremiah Wilkinson, California, 2
Sixth Man Of the Year
Jeremiah Wilkinson, California, 22 votes
Duncan Powell, Georgia Tech, 15
Ian Jackson, North Carolina, 13
Maliq Brown, Duke, 11
Kario Oquendo, SMU, 11
Isaiah Evans, Duke, 9
Most Improved Player
Donald Hand Jr., Boston College, 25 votes
Jaylen Blakes, Stanford, 22
Tae Davis, Notre Dame, 8
Naithan George, Georgia Tech, 7
Jaland Lowe, Pitt, 7
Andrej Stojakovic, California, 4
Andrew Rohde, Virginia, 4
B.J. Edwards, SMU, 2
Eddie Lampkin, Syracuse, 1
Tyrese Proctor, Duke, 1
Coach of the Year
Pat Kelsey, Louisville, 47 votes
Jon Scheyer, Duke, 25
Brad Brownell, Clemson, 8
Kyle Smith, Stanford, 1
All-Defensive Team
Chucky Hepburn, Louisville, 70 votes
Cooper Flagg, Duke, 57
Jaeden Zackery, Clemson, 55
B.J. Edwards, SMU, 34
Sion James, Duke, 28
Zack Austin, Pitt, 28
All-Rookie Team
Cooper Flagg, Duke, 80 votes
Kon Knueppel, Duke, 79
Ian Jackson, North Carolina, 65
Jeremiah Wilkinson, California, 59
Khaman Maluach, Duke, 47
81 total votes
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