Terquavion Smith selected to preseason All-ACC first team
Terquavion Smith put together an All-ACC Honorable Mention freshman year last season with NC State and, after withdrawing from the NBA Draft, is continuing to rack up the accolades. The ACC announced its preseason awards Tuesday evening and selected the sophomore guard to its preseason all-conference first team.
Smith excelled throughout the pre-draft process in the spring, backing up the talent he showed throughout an accolade-filled freshman season that included a spot on the conference’s All-ACC Freshman team, but he still opted to return to Raleigh for a second season.
He was one of the best players in the ACC last season, averaging 16.3 points per game, grabbing 4.1 rebounds per game and hitting 96 three pointers— the most a freshman has ever hit in program history. Caleb Love and Armando Bacot from North Carolina, Isaiah Wong from Miami and Jeremy Roach from Duke all joined Smith on the first team.
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The ACC also released its predicted order of finish, and the Wolfpack slotted in at No. 10, in-between Wake Forest (No. 9) and Clemson (No. 11), after finishing in last place during the 2021-2022 season. North Carolina is the nearly-unanimous pick to finish at the top of the league, receiving 90 of 101 votes, and fellow in-state rival Duke finished No. 2 in the projected order of finish.
Here are the full preseason ACC Poll results:
2022 ACC Preseason Poll (101 total votes)
1. North Carolina (90), 1504
2. Duke (2), 1339
3. Virginia (6), 1310
4. Miami (2), 1138
5. Florida State, 1064
6. Notre Dame, 971
7. Virginia Tech (1), 921
8. Syracuse, 700
9. Wake Forest, 672
10. NC State, 548
11. Clemson, 528
12. Louisville, 477
13. Boston College, 368
14. Pitt, 320
15. Georgia Tech, 260
First-place votes in parentheses
Preseason All-ACC (101 total votes)
First Team
Name, School, Votes
Armando Bacot, North Carolina, 100
Isaiah Wong, Miami, 81
Caleb Love, North Carolina, 58
Terquavion Smith, NC State, 46
Jeremy Roach, Duke, 35
Second Team All–ACC
Name, School, Votes
Jayden Gardner, Virginia, 32
Dereck Lively II, Duke, 19
Justyn Mutts, Virginia Tech, 18
PJ Hall, Clemson, 17
RJ Davis, North Carolina, 14
ACC Preseason Player of the Year
Name, School, Votes
Armando Bacot, North Carolina, 82
Isaiah Wong, Miami, 5
Caleb Love, North Carolina, 4
Jeremy Roach, Duke, 3
PJ Hall, Clemson, 2
RJ Davis, North Carolina, 2
Terquavion Smith, NC State, 1
Hunter Cattoor, Virginia Tech, 1
Dariq Whitehead, Duke, 1
ACC Preseason Rookie of the Year
Name, School, Votes
Dereck Lively II, Duke, 57
Dariq Whitehead, Duke, 25
Tyrese Proctor, Duke, 5
Mark Mitchell, Duke, 3
Tyler Nickel, North Carolina, 2
Jalen Washington, North Carolina, 2
JJ Starling, Notre Dame, 2
Kyle Filipowski, Duke, 2
Prince Aligbe, Boston College, 1
Isaac McKneely, Virginia, 1
Seth Trimble, North Carolina, 1
