The 2025 all-ACC men’s basketball team is set, award winners announced. Here’s who won
On the way to earning the Associated Press Top 25 poll’s No. 1 ranking entering the postseason, Duke racked up plenty of ACC honors while rolling to the league’s regular-season championship.
As expected, Duke freshman Cooper Flagg was named ACC Player of the Year on Monday after he led the Blue Devils in five statistical categories this season.
The 6-9 freshman, named first-team, all-ACC and the league’s rookie of the year while also making the all-defensive team, averaged 19.4 points, 7.6 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.3 blocks per game for the Blue Devils (28-3). That helped Duke go 19-1 in the ACC regular season and lock down the No. 1 seed for this week’s ACC Tournament in Charlotte.
Flagg won rookie of the week honors a league-record 12 times this season. The previous record of 10 was set by Georgia Tech’s Kenny Anderson in 1990, and tied by North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough in 2006, and Duke’s Jabari Parker in 2014.
Clemson (26-5, 18-2 ACC) and Louisville (25-6, 18-2 ACC), which each finished a game behind Duke in the league standings, were also represented on the all-ACC first team. Louisville guard Chucky Hepburn made that group after leading the Cardinals with 16.5 points per game. Clemson is represented by guard Chase Hunter, who averages 16 points per game.
Stanford’s Maxime Raynaud, who led the ACC in rebounding (10.9) and was second in scoring at 20.1 points per game, and Wake Forest’s Hunter Sallis (18 points per game) rounded out the five-man first team.
Fellow freshman Kon Knueppel joined Flagg on the league’s all-rookie team. The 6-7 Knueppel averaged 13.7 points, 3.8 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game while making 39.9% of his 3-pointers. Duke’s third freshman starter, 7-2 center, Khaman Maluach, is also on the all-rookie team along with North Carolina’s Ian Jackson and California’s Jeremiah Wilkinson.
Knueppel joined North Carolina’s R.J. Davis on the all-ACC second team along with this season’s league scoring champion, Markus Burton of Notre Dame. Burton averaged 22.7 points per game.
Louisville’s Pat Kelsey was voted ACC coach of the year in his first season with the Cardinals. After going 8-24 last season, Louisville is 25-6 this season, including 18-2 in the ACC. Duke’s Jon Scheyer finished second in the voting after leading the Blue Devils to the regular-season title.
2025 All-ACC team
First team: Cooper Flagg, Duke; Maxime Raynaud, Stanford; Chucky Hepburn, Louisville; Chase Hunter, Clemson; Hunter Sallis, Wake Forest.
Second team: RJ Davis, North Carolina; Kon Knueppel, Duke; Markus Burton, Notre Dame; Ian Schieffelin, Clemson; Jamir Watkins, Florida State.
Third team: Terrence Edwards Jr., Louisville; Tyrese Proctor, Duke; Baye Ndongo, Georgia Tech; Boopie Miller, SMU; Jaland Lowe, Pitt.
Honorable mention: Matthew Cleveland, Miami; Andrej Stojakovic, California; Naithan George, Georgia Tech; Isaac McKneely, Virginia; J.J. Starling, Syracuse; Donald Hand Jr., Boston College; Cameron Hildreth, Wake Forest; Khaman Maluach, Duke; Viktor Lakhin, Clemson; Eddie Lampkin, Syracuse.
All-defensive team: Chucky Hepburn, Louisville; Cooper Flagg, F, Duke; Jaeden Zackery, Clemson; B.J. Edwards, SMU; Sion James, Duke; Zack Austin, Pitt.
All-rookie team: Cooper Flagg, Duke; Kon Knueppel, Duke; Ian Jackson, North Carolina; Jeremiah Wilkinson, California; Khaman Maluach, Duke.
Player of the year: Cooper Flagg, F, Duke
Rookie of the year: Cooper Flagg, F, Duke
Coach of the year: Pat Kelsey, Louisville
Most improved player: Donald Hand, Boston College
Defensive player of the year: Chucky Hepburn, Louisville
This story was originally published March 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM with the headline "The 2025 all-ACC men’s basketball team is set, award winners announced. Here’s who won."