NC State's Seabron, Smith Earn ACC Honors

NC State men's basketball player's Dereon Seabron and Terquavion Smith both earned Atlantic Coast Conference accolades as the conference office announced the 2021-22 ACC postseason awards Monday morning.

The 2021-22 All-ACC Team was determined by a 78-member panel consisting of the league's 15 head coaches and 63 members of the media.

Seabron was named the ACC's Most Improved Player and earned All-ACC Second Team honors while Smith was named to the All-ACC Rookie Team and earned All-ACC Honorable Mention.

Seabron is the first NC State player to win the conference's Most Improved Player honor.

The Norfolk, Va., native had a stellar sophomore season. He averaged 17.3 points and 8.0 rebounds per game while shooting 49.9 percent from the field. He led NC State in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals. He is one of just four players in NCAA Division I to lead his team in all four of those stat categories and the only player from a power conference to do so.

Seabron averaged 5.2 points and 3.9 rebounds per game last season as a redshirt freshman. He more than tripled his scoring and double his rebounding while also showing significant improvements in assists, steals and free throw percentage. Seabron's career-high coming into this season was 17 points. He scored 17 or more points in 17 of 31 games this season.

Seabron is the first NC State player to make the All-ACC Second Team since Markell Johnson in the 2019-20 season.

Smith was one of the ACC's most exciting newcomers and was named to the All-Rookie Team and earned honorable mention All-ACC honors after his freshman season with the Pack.

Smith averaged 16.5 points, 4.1 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.4 steals per game. He also hit an ACC-best 96 three-pointers in the regular season.

In conference only games, Smith upped his average to 18.3 points per game which was the second-best scoring average in the ACC. He also led all players in ACC-only games with 73 three-pointers, an average of 3.65 per game. Smith also ranked eighth in steals with an average of 1.55 per game.

Smith's 96 three-pointers are the most by a freshman in program history and currently ranks as the fourth-most all-time by an ACC freshman. He is on track to be the first freshman to lead the ACC in three-pointers made since Duke's J.J. Redick in the 2002-03 season.

NC State opens the ACC Tournament on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. when it faces Clemson in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. The game will be televised on the ACC Network.

2021-22 ACC Award Winners
Player of Year: Alondes Williams, Wake Forest
Rookie of Year: Paolo Banchero, Duke
Coach of Year: Steve Forbes, Wake Forest
Defensive Player of Year: Mark Williams, Duke
Most Improved Player: Dereon Seabron, NC State
Sixth Man of Year: Matthew Cleveland, Florida State

2021-22 All-ACC Team
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