ACC awards and honors includes Dereon Seabron and Terquavion Smith

A pair of NC State basketball guards — redshirt sophomore Dereon Seabron and freshman Terquavion Smith — picked up ACC honors that were announced Monday morning.

A season ago, Seabron was a player flashing his potential while averaging 5.2 points and 3.9 rebounds per game. This year, Seabron is a second-team All-ACC selection after contributing 17.3 points and 8.0 rebounds with 11 double-doubles, second most in the ACC, along the way.

That leap in productivity helped Seabron edge Clemson sophomore forward P.J. Hall for the ACC’s Most Improved Player Award.

Seabron received 33 votes from the league’s 78-member panel to Hall’s 28. Seabron also received the seventh most all-conference points total to be the second highest on the second-team.

Smith, who averaged 16.5 points and 4.1 rebounds while leading the ACC with 96 made three pointers, was the second highest vote-getter on the All-Freshman Team behind the league’s Rookie of the Year, Duke’s Paulo Banchero.

Smith’s 18.3 points per game in conference play was the second-highest scoring average in the league in ACC-only games. No freshman has led the conference in threes since Duke’s J.J. Redick in 2003.

Smith was also named honorable mention All-ACC after receiving 15 points for the all-conference teams.

NC State basketball will open ACC Tournament play Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. against Clemson in Brooklyn.

Below are the full All-ACC teams.

2021-22 All-ACC Teams And Award Winners

First Team
Armando Bacot, North Carolina, 380
Alondes Williams, Wake Forest, 373
Paolo Banchero, Duke, 372
Kameron McGusty, Miami, 315
Buddy Boeheim, Syracuse, 241
 
Second Team
Keve Aluma, Virginia Tech, 192
Dereon Seabron, NC State, 166
Wendell Moore Jr., Duke, 161
Blake Wesley, Notre Dame, 148
Jake LaRavia, Wake Forest, 147
 
Third Team
Dane Goodwin, Notre Dame, 131
Mark Williams, Duke, 119
Isaiah Wong, Miami, 119
Jayden Gardner, Virginia, 106
Michael Devoe, Georgia Tech, 105
 
Honorable Mention
Caleb Love, North Carolina, 84
PJ Hall, Clemson, 72
John Hugley, Pitt, 54
Charlie Moore, Miami, 42
Brady Manek, North Carolina, 38
Kihei Clark, Virginia, 22
AJ Griffin, Duke, 22
Paul Atkinson Jr., Notre Dame, 20
Terquavion Smith, NC State, 15
Reece Beekman, Virginia, 15
 
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).

ACC Player of the Year
Alondes Williams, Wake Forest, 41 votes
Armando Bacot, North Carolina, 31
Paolo Banchero, Duke, 6
 
ACC Freshman of the Year
Paolo Banchero, Duke, 72 votes
Blake Wesley, Notre Dame, 4
Terquavion Smith, NC State, 1
Trevor Keels, Duke, 1
 
ACC Defensive Player of the Year
Mark Williams, Duke, 46 votes
Reece Beekman, Virginia, 20
Leaky Black, North Carolina, 7
Wendell Moore Jr., Duke, 3
Charlie Moore, Miami, 2
 
ACC Most Improved Player
Dereon Seabron, NC State, 33 votes
PJ Hall, Clemson, 28
Mark Williams, Duke, 4
John Hugley, Pitt, 4
Dane Goodwin, Notre Dame, 3
Jesse Edwards, Syracuse, 2
Wendell Moore Jr., Duke, 2
James Karnik, Boston College, 1
RJ Davis, North Carolina, 1
 
ACC Sixth Man of the Year
Matthew Cleveland, Florida State, 52 votes
El Ellis, Louisville, 6
Anthony Walker, Miami, 6
Khadim Sy, Wake Forest, 6
Kadin Shedrick, Virginia, 5
Quinten Post, Boston College, 2
Cam Hayes, NC State, 1
 
ACC Coach of the Year
Steve Forbes, Wake Forest, 40 votes
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke, 19
Mike Brey, Notre Dame, 13
Jim Larrañaga, Miami, 3
Mike Young, Virginia Tech, 1
Hubert Davis, North Carolina, 1
Tony Bennett, Virginia, 1
 
All-ACC Defensive Team
Mark Williams, Duke, 77 votes
Reece Beekman, Virginia, 69
Leaky Black, North Carolina, 55
Charlie Moore, Miami, 45
Wendell Moore Jr., Duke, 33
 
All-Rookie Team
Paolo Banchero, Duke, 77 votes
Terquavion Smith, NC State, 73
Blake Wesley, Notre Dame, 72
AJ Griffin, Duke, 66
Trevor Keels, Duke, 50

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