Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year


The Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the men's basketball player in the Atlantic Coast Conference 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. 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.
Two players have won the award three times: David Thompson of North Carolina State and Ralph Sampson of Virginia. Hemric, Len Chappell, Larry Miller, John Roche, Len Bias, Danny Ferry, Tim Duncan and J. J. Redick have won the award twice. 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; and Erick Green of Virginia Tech and Larkin shared honors in 2012–13. 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.
Sixteen players have received either the Naismith or Wooden National Player of the Year awards in the same season that they received an ACC Player of the Year award. Duke's Zion Williamson is the most recent player to achieve this. Each of the original 1953 ACC members has had at least one of its players win the award. Five ACC members have not had a winner: Florida State, Louisville, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, and Syracuse. However, of these schools, only Florida State joined the ACC before 2013.

Key

Winners

SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionClassReference
1953–54Wake ForestC
1954–55 Wake ForestC
1955–56NC StateC
1956–57*North CarolinaPF
1957–58North CarolinaSF
1958–59NC StatePG
1959–60North CarolinaPF / C
1960–61Wake ForestPF / C
1961–62 Wake ForestPF / C
1962–63*DukeSG / SF
1963–64DukeSF
1964–65North CarolinaG / F
1965–66DukePG
1966–67North CarolinaSG
1967–68 North CarolinaSG
1968–69South CarolinaPG / SG
1969–70 South CarolinaPG / SG
1970–71Wake ForestG
1971–72VirginiaSG
1972–73NC StateSG / SF
1973–74 NC StateSG / SF
1974–75* NC StateSG / SF
1975–76North CarolinaPF
1976–77Wake ForestPF
1977–78*North CarolinaPG
1978–79DukeC
1979–80MarylandG / F
1980–81*VirginiaC
1981–82* VirginiaC
1982–83* VirginiaC
1983–84*North CarolinaSG
1984–85MarylandSF
1985–86 MarylandSF
1986–87ClemsonPF
1987–88DukeC
1988–89* DukeC
1989–90Georgia TechSF
1990–91NC StateSG
1991–92*DukeC
1992–93Wake ForestSF / G
1993–94DukeSG / SF
1994–95*MarylandPF
1995–96Wake ForestC
1996–97* Wake ForestC
1997–98*North CarolinaPF
1998–99*DukeC
1999–00DukeSG / SF
2000–01†*DukeSF
2000–01†North CarolinaSG
2001–02MarylandSG
2002–03Wake ForestSF
2003–04NC StateG/F
2004–05DukeSG
2005–06* DukeSG
2006–07Boston CollegeSF
2007–08*North CarolinaPF
2008–09North CarolinaPG
2009–10MarylandPG
2010–11DukePG
2011–12North CarolinaC
2012–13†MVirginia TechPG
2012–13†CMiami PG
2013–14NC StateSF
2014–15DukeC
2015–16VirginiaSG
2016–17North CarolinaSF
2017–18DukePF
2018–19*DukePF
2019–20DukePG

Winners by school

Footnotes