Battle, Dolezaj Earn All-ACC Academic Honors
2/28/2018 3:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – Sophomore Tyus Battle and freshman Marek Dolezaj have been named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Men's Basketball team, as announced today by Commissioner John Swofford.
To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career.
Battle has started all 29 games for Syracuse and leads the team in scoring average (19.8). He has scored in double figures in 28-of-29 games and has tallied at least 20 points in 14 of those. Dolezaj has seen action in all 29 games and started nine of those. He is averaging 4.8 points and 5.0 rebounds.
The Skip Prosser Award, which will be presented to North Carolina's Luke Maye, is presented annually to the top scholar-athlete in ACC men's basketball. It is named in memory of Wake Forest head basketball coach George Edward "Skip" Prosser, who passed away on July 26, 2007. Prosser compiled a 291-146 career record in 14 seasons as a head coach, including a 126-68 mark in his six years with Wake Forest. Every Wake Forest senior he coached graduated, and the Deacons placed nine players on the annual All-ACC Academic Basketball Team during his tenure.
To be nominated for the Skip Prosser Award, a student-athlete must be an upperclassman with a grade-point average of 3.0 or better – both in his career and in the previous two semesters. Sixty percent of the award is based on academic achievement and 40 percent on athletic accomplishments.
The All-ACC Academic Team includes three of the five and six of the league's top 15 scorers – Duke's Marvin Bagley III (20.7), Syracuse's Battle (19.8), May (17.9), Duke's Grayson Allen (15.5), Louisville's Deng Adel (15.3) and NC State Allerik Freeman (15.1). In addition, the team also includes the league's fifth-and 10th-leading rebounders, respectively, in Louisville's Ray Spalding (8.9) and Clemson's Elijah Thomas (7.9), and Virginia's Devon Hall, who leads the ACC in assists-to-turnover ratio (3.19-to-1).
Duke's Allen earned a spot on the honors team for a fourth-straight year while Maye, Louisville' Deng Adel and Raymond Spalding, Clemson's Gabe DeVoe, Notre Dame's Rex Pflueger, Virginia Tech's Devin Wilson were named for a third time. Syracuse's Battle, Florida State's Trent Forrest, Virginia's Hall and Louisville's V.J. King are listed for a second time.
2018 All-ACC Academic Men's Basketball Team
| Player | Class | School | Hometown | Major |
| Deng Adel | Jr. | Louisville | Melbourne, Australia | Sports Administration |
| Brandon Alston | Gr. | Georgia Tech | Vienna, Va. | Economics |
| Grayson Allen | Sr. | Duke | Jacksonville, Fla. | Psychology |
| Marvin Bagley III | Fr. | Duke | Phoenix, Ariz. | Undeclared |
| Tyus Battle | So. | Syracuse | Edison, N.J. | Information Mgmt. & Tech. |
| Marcus Carr | Fr. | Pittsburgh | Toronto, Ontario | Arts & Sciences |
| Marek Dolezaj | Fr. | Syracuse | Bratislava, Slovakia | Undeclared |
| Braxton Beverly | Fr. | NC State | Hazard, Ky. | Sport Management |
| Khameron Davis | Fr. | Pittsburgh | Denver, Colo. | Arts & Sciences |
| Gabe DeVoe | Sr. | Clemson | Shelby, N.C. | Marketing |
| Trent Forrest | So. | Florida State | Chipley, Fla. | Sport Management |
| Allerik Freeman | Gr. | NC State | Charlotte, N.C. | Youth & Family Community Services |
| Devon Hall | Gr. | Virginia | Virginia Beach, Va. | Higher Education |
| Sam Hunt | Gr. | NC State | Greensboro, N.C. | Youth & Family Community Services |
| Nigel Johnson | Gr. | Virginia | Ashburn, Va. | Higher Education |
| Chris Lykes | Fr. | Miami | Mitchellville, Md. | Undeclared |
| Mfinodu Kabengele | Fr. | Florida State | Burlington, Ontario | International Affairs |
| V.J. King | So. | Louisville | Cleveland, Ohio | Sports Administration |
| Luke Maye | Jr. | North Carolina | Huntersville, N.C. | Business Administration |
| Jordan Nwora | Fr. | Louisville | Buffalo, N.Y. | Exercise Science |
| Rex Pflueger | Jr. | Notre Dame | Dana Point, Calif. | Marketing |
| Ray Spalding | Jr. | Louisville | Louisville, Ky. | Communications |
| Shamiel Stevenson | Fr. | Pittsburgh | Toronto, Ontario | Arts & Sciences |
| Parker Stewart | Fr. | Pittsburgh | Union City, Tenn. | Arts & Sciences |
| Elijah Thomas | Jr. | Clemson | Dallas, Texas | Parks, Recreation & Tourism |
| Dejan Vasiljevic | So. | Miami | Melbourne, Astralia | Management |
| Lonnie Walker IV | Fr. | Miami | Reading, Pa. | Undeclared |
| Devin Wilson | Sr. | Virginia Tech | McKees Rocks, Pa. | Political Science |
| Jared Wilson-Frame | Jr. | Pittsburgh | Hartford, Conn. | Social Sciences |
| Keyshawn Woods | Sr. | Wake Forest | Gastonia, N.C. | Communications |
