ACC reveals 2024 regular season award winners, all-conference team selections
The Atlantic Coast Conference has released its 2024 regular season awards ahead of the ACC Tournament later this week.
North Carolina swept the Player and Coach of the Year awards with RJ Davis and Hubert Davis earning that honor as the Tar Heels completed their first outright ACC regular-season title since the 2016-17 season. The rest of the awards were spread throughout the conference.
According to the official release, the 2023-24 All-ACC Team was determined by a 75-member panel consisting of the league’s 15 head coaches and 60 members of the media. Here are their final selections:
Player of the Year: RJ Davis, North Carolina
RJ Davis earned 68 of the 75 eligible votes to win the 2024 ACC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year award. Davis led the conference in points with 21.1 per game while also averaging 3.6 assists per game, which ranks 11th in the league. He’s also scored at least 20 points in 19 games for the Tar Heels this season and is on pace to be the highest-scoring UNC player since Tyler Hansborough did so with 22.6 points per game during the 2007-2008 season.
Along with this honor, Davis is a finalist for the John R. Wooden Award and the Jerry West Award, which are awarded to the top overall player and top shooting guard in the country, respectively.
Defensive Player of the Year: Reece Beekman, Virginia
Reece Beekman became the third player in conference history to win back-to-back ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors on Monday. He’s now the sixth Virginia player to win the award in the last 10 seasons as well.
The senior logged 2.13 steals (66 total) per game this year, second in the ACC. He also anchored the conference’s lowest-scoring defense which only gave up 59.1 points per game during the regular season. He is a threat offensively as well, averaging 14.3 points and 6.0 assists for UVA this season.
Rookie of the Year: Markus Burton, Notre Dame
Markus Burton is Notre Dame’s first-ever recipient of the ACC’s Rookie of the Year honor. He scored a freshman record 535 points (17.3 per game) for the Fighting Irish this season — good for third among freshmen in the country.
If he continues to hit his averages on the stat sheet, he has the potential to become the first player in program history to have averaged at least 17.0 points, 4.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game in a single season.
Most Improved Player: Ian Schieffelin, Clemson
Last season, Ian Schieffelin averaged 5.5 points and 4.1 rebounds for Clemson. He just finished the regular season with a 9.7 point, 9.6 rebound effort for the Tigers in 2024. Those numbers ballooned enough for the junior to lay claim to the title of the ACC’s most-improved player.
His rebounding numbers rank third in the conference and is also a threat from deep, shooting a healthy 52.8% from deep (19 of 36) compared to 33.3% of attempts from a year ago.
Sixth Man of the Year: Ishmael Leggett, Pitt
Ishmael Leggett is the second-straight Pitt Panther to win the ACC’s Sixth Man of the Year honors, joining former Panther Nike Sibande from 2023. The junior scored 11.9 points per game for Pitt this season and despite coming off the bench, has managed to string together double-digit scoring efforts in 11 of Pitt’s last 14 games (22 overall).
He’s also averaging 5.5 rebounds and 2.1 assists this season, and leads the team in rebounding and steals.
Coach of the Year: Hubert Davis, North Carolina
Hubert Davis helped lead North Carolina (25-6, 17-3 ACC) to a No. 4 ranking in the regular season’s final AP Top 25 Poll. Defeating archrival Duke twice this season, the Tar Heels are the 2024 ACC Regular Season champions and head into this week’s conference tournament as the odds-on favorite to sweep the ACC’s championships this season.
Davis is 74-29 as UNC head coach over the past three seasons and is on track to win 30+ games with a strong showing this postseason.
All-ACC team selections
2023-24 ALL-ACC TEAM
FIRST TEAM
(Name, School, Points)
RJ Davis, North Carolina
PJ Hall, Clemson
Kyle Filipowski, Duke
Hunter Sallis, Wake Forest
Blake Hinson, Pitt
SECOND TEAM
Armando Bacot, North Carolina
Reece Beekman, Virginia
Judah Mintz, Syracuse
Norchad Omier, Miami
Quinten Post, Boston College
THIRD TEAM
DJ Horne, NC State
Harrison Ingram, North Carolina
Jeremy Roach, Duke
Markus Burton, Notre Dame
Sean Pedulla, Virginia Tech
All-Defensive Team
Reece Beekman, Virginia
Ryan Dunn, Virginia
Maliq Brown, Syracuse
Armando Bacot, North Carolina
Quinten Post, Boston College
All-Rookie Team
Markus Burton, Notre Dame
Jared McCain, Duke
Carlton Carrington, Pitt
Baye Ndongo, Georgia Tech
Elliot Cadeau, North Carolina
HONORABLE MENTION
Joseph Girard III, Clemson
Jamir Watkins, Florida State
Jared McCain, Duke
Ian Schieffelin, Clemson
Miles Kelly, Georgia Tech
Carlton Carrington, Pitt
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield, Louisville
Ryan Dunn, Virginia