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Battle, Brissett Earn All-ACC Honors
3/4/2018 3:00:00 PM | Men's Basketball
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – Sophomore guard Tyus Battle and Freshman forward Oshae Brissett represented Syracuse on the 2017-18 All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors announced by the league Sunday. Battle earned All-ACC Second Team recognition while Brissett was named to he Alll-ACC Freshman Team.
Duke's Marvin Bagley III swept the ACC Player of the Year and ACC Rookie of the Year honors. He was the choice for ACC Player of the Year by 37 members of the 57-member voting panel (15 ACC head coaches, 42 selected media) that cast ballots for this year's postseason honors. Boston College's Jerome Robinson placed second with 14 votes.
The ACC Rookie of the Year balloting was more clear cut, with Bagley receiving 56 of the 57 votes cast. Virginia's De'Andre Hunter received the remaining vote.
Bagley joinec former Duke standout Jahlil Okafor (2015) as the only players in the ACC's 65-year history to be chosen as the league's Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year in the same season.
Virginia's Tony Bennett was recognized as the ACC Coach of the Year. Bennett's Cavaliers, who won the ACC regular-season title and own the nation's No. 1 ranking, earned two more individual honors as Virginia senior Isaiah Wilkins received the nod as the ACC Defensive Player of the Year and freshman De'Andre Hunter was tabbed as the Sixth Man of the Year.
North Carolina junior Luke Maye was voted the ACC's Most Improved Player.
Bagley was joined on the All-ACC first team by Boston College's Robinson, North Carolina's Maye and senior Joel Berry II, and Virginia sophomore Kyle Guy.
Clemson's Marcquise Reed, Battle, Virginia Devon Hall, Virginia Tech's Justin Robinson, and Duke's Wendell Carter Jr. comprised the second team.
The All-ACC third team included Duke's Grayson Allen, Notre Dame's Matt Farrell, Virginia's Ty Jerome, Georgia Tech's Josh Okogie and NC State's Omer Yurtseven..
Bennett has guided a Virginia team that was picked to finish sixth in the ACC in preseason – and unranked in the national polls – to an ACC regular-season championship and the nation's No. 1 ranking. The Cavaliers (28-2 overall) won 17 of 18 conference games and will enter this week's New York Life ACC Tournament as the No. 1 seed for the third time in five years.
Virginia's 17 ACC regular-season wins are a new league record, as are its nine conference road wins. The Cavaliers are the fourth team in the Associated Press Top 25 era (since 1990) to reach the No. 1 spot in the AP weekly poll after being unranked in preseason. The ACC Coach of the Year honor is the Bennett's third since he took the helm at Virginia prior to 2009-10 season. He was also recognized in 2014 and 2015.
Bagley, Hunter and Carter are joined on the All-ACC Freshman Team by Miami's Lonnie Walker IV and Brissett.
Louisville's Anas Mahmoud, Clemson's Elijah Thomas, Virginia's Hall and Georgia Tech's Ben Lammers join Virginia's Wilkins on the 2017-18 All-ACC Defensive Team.
2018 Atlantic Coast Conference Post-Season Honors
*- Unanimous selection
Duke's Marvin Bagley III swept the ACC Player of the Year and ACC Rookie of the Year honors. He was the choice for ACC Player of the Year by 37 members of the 57-member voting panel (15 ACC head coaches, 42 selected media) that cast ballots for this year's postseason honors. Boston College's Jerome Robinson placed second with 14 votes.
The ACC Rookie of the Year balloting was more clear cut, with Bagley receiving 56 of the 57 votes cast. Virginia's De'Andre Hunter received the remaining vote.
Bagley joinec former Duke standout Jahlil Okafor (2015) as the only players in the ACC's 65-year history to be chosen as the league's Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year in the same season.
Virginia's Tony Bennett was recognized as the ACC Coach of the Year. Bennett's Cavaliers, who won the ACC regular-season title and own the nation's No. 1 ranking, earned two more individual honors as Virginia senior Isaiah Wilkins received the nod as the ACC Defensive Player of the Year and freshman De'Andre Hunter was tabbed as the Sixth Man of the Year.
North Carolina junior Luke Maye was voted the ACC's Most Improved Player.
Bagley was joined on the All-ACC first team by Boston College's Robinson, North Carolina's Maye and senior Joel Berry II, and Virginia sophomore Kyle Guy.
Clemson's Marcquise Reed, Battle, Virginia Devon Hall, Virginia Tech's Justin Robinson, and Duke's Wendell Carter Jr. comprised the second team.
The All-ACC third team included Duke's Grayson Allen, Notre Dame's Matt Farrell, Virginia's Ty Jerome, Georgia Tech's Josh Okogie and NC State's Omer Yurtseven..
Bennett has guided a Virginia team that was picked to finish sixth in the ACC in preseason – and unranked in the national polls – to an ACC regular-season championship and the nation's No. 1 ranking. The Cavaliers (28-2 overall) won 17 of 18 conference games and will enter this week's New York Life ACC Tournament as the No. 1 seed for the third time in five years.
Virginia's 17 ACC regular-season wins are a new league record, as are its nine conference road wins. The Cavaliers are the fourth team in the Associated Press Top 25 era (since 1990) to reach the No. 1 spot in the AP weekly poll after being unranked in preseason. The ACC Coach of the Year honor is the Bennett's third since he took the helm at Virginia prior to 2009-10 season. He was also recognized in 2014 and 2015.
Bagley, Hunter and Carter are joined on the All-ACC Freshman Team by Miami's Lonnie Walker IV and Brissett.
Louisville's Anas Mahmoud, Clemson's Elijah Thomas, Virginia's Hall and Georgia Tech's Ben Lammers join Virginia's Wilkins on the 2017-18 All-ACC Defensive Team.
2018 Atlantic Coast Conference Post-Season Honors
| All-ACC First Team | School |
| Marvin Bagley III | Duke |
| Jerome Robinson | Boston College |
| Luke Maye | North Carolina |
| Joel Berry II | North Carolina |
| Kyle Guy | Virginia |
| All-ACC Second Team | School |
| Tyus Battle | Syracuse |
| Marcquise Reed | Clemson |
| Devon Hall | Virginia |
| Wendell Carter Jr. | Duke |
| Justin Robinson | Virginia Tech |
| All-ACC Third Team | School |
| Grayson Allen | Duke |
| Matt Farrell | Notre Dame |
| Ty Jerome | Virginia |
| Josh Okogie | Georgia Tech |
| Omer Yurtseven | NC State |
| All-ACC Honorable Mention | School |
| Deng Adel | Louisville |
| Ky Bowman | Boston College |
| Lonnie Walker | Miami (FL) |
| Bryant Crawford | Wake Forest |
| Markell Johnson | NC State |
| Ray Spaulding | Louisville |
| Allerik Freeman | NC State |
| Theo Pinson | North Carolina |
| Terrance Mann | Florida State |
| Gabe DeVoe | Clemson |
| All-ACC Freshman Team | School |
| Marvin Bagley III | Duke |
| Wendall Carter | Duke |
| Lonnie Walker | Miami |
| De'Andre Hunter | Virginia |
| Oshae Brissett | Syracuse |
| All-ACC Defensive Team | School |
| Isaiah Wilkins | Virginia |
| Anas Mahmoud | Louisville |
| Elijah Thomas | Clemson |
| Devon Hall | Virginia |
| Ben Lammers | Georgia Tech |
| ACC Player of the Year | School |
| Marvin Bagley III | Duke |
| ACC Rookie of the Year | School |
| Marvin Bagley III | Duke |
| ACC Coach of the Year | School |
| Tony Bennett | Virginia |
| ACC Defensive Player of the Year | School |
| Isaiah Wilkins | Virginia |
| ACC Most Improved Player | School |
| Luke Maye | North Carolina |
| ACC Sixth Man of the Year | School |
| De'Andre Hunter | Virginia |
*- Unanimous selection
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