Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
Template:Short description Template:Infobox sports award The Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the men's basketball player in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) voted as the most outstanding player. It has been presented since the league's first season, 1953–54, by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association, and beginning in 2012–13 has also been presented in separate voting by the league's head coaches.<ref name=sportsref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The award was first given to Dickie Hemric of Wake Forest, and the coaches' award was first presented in 2013 to Shane Larkin of Miami.<ref name=Hemric>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=Larkin>Template:Cite news</ref>
Two players have won the award three times: David Thompson of NC State and Ralph Sampson of Virginia.<ref name=Thompson>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=Sampson>Template:Cite news</ref> Hemric, Len Chappell, Larry Miller, John Roche, Len Bias, Danny Ferry, Tim Duncan and JJ Redick have won the award twice.<ref name=sportsref/> There have been two ties in the award's history, which occurred at the end of the 2000–01 and 2012–13 seasons: In 2000–01 Joseph Forte of North Carolina and Shane Battier of Duke shared the award, while in 2012–13 Erick Green of Virginia Tech and Larkin shared honors.<ref name=sportsref/> Green and Larkin split the honor in the first year that the ACC began voting for players of the year by the conference's coaches and media separately (the media chose Green while the coaches chose Larkin).<ref name=Larkin/><ref name=Green>Template:Cite news</ref>
Key
| † | Co-Players of the Year |
| * | Awarded a national player of the year award: Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year (1904–05 to 1978–79) UPI College Basketball Player of the Year (1954–55 to 1995–96) Naismith College Player of the Year (1968–69 to present) John R. Wooden Award (1976–77 to present) |
| M | ACC media's selection (2013–2016) |
| C | ACC coaches' selection (2013–2016) |
| Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player had been awarded the ACC Player of the Year award at that point |
Winners
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Winners by school
| School (year joined) | Winners | Years |
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| Duke (1953) | 19 | 1963, 1964, 1966, 1979, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001†, 2005, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2025 |
| North Carolina (1953) | 16 | 1957, 1958, 1960, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1976, 1978, 1984, 1998, 2001†, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2017, 2024 |
| Wake Forest (1953) | 11 | 1954, 1955, 1961, 1962, 1971, 1977, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2022 |
| NC State (1953) | 8 | 1956, 1959, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1991, 2004, 2014 |
| Maryland (1953)Template:Ref label | 6 | 1980, 1985, 1986, 1995, 2002, 2010 |
| Virginia (1953) | 5 | 1972, 1981, 1982, 1983, 2016 |
| Georgia Tech (1978) | 2 | 1990, 2021 |
| Miami (2004) | 2 | 2013†, 2023 |
| South Carolina (1953)Template:Ref label | 2 | 1969, 1970 |
| Boston College (2005) | 1 | 2007 |
| Clemson (1953) | 1 | 1987 |
| Virginia Tech (2004) | 1 | 2013† |
| California (2024) | 0 | — |
| Florida State (1991) | 0 | — |
| Louisville (2014) | 0 | — |
| Notre Dame (2013) | 0 | — |
| Pittsburgh (2013) | 0 | — |
| SMU (2024) | 0 | — |
| Stanford (2024) | 0 | — |
| Syracuse (2013) | 0 | — |
- Template:Note labelMaryland left the ACC in 2014 to join the Big Ten Conference.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Template:Note labelSouth Carolina left the ACC in 1971.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
See also
- Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year
- List of All-Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball teams
References
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