Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
Season Player School Position Class
1953-54 Dickie Hemric Wake Forest C Junior
1954-55 Dickie Hemric ( 2 ) Wake Forest C Senior
1955-56 Ronnie Shavlik NC State C Senior
1956-57 Lennie Rosenbluth * North Carolina PF Senior
1957-58 Pete Brennan North Carolina SF Senior
1958-59 Lou Pucillo NC State PG Senior
1959-60 Lee Shaffer North Carolina PF / C Senior
1960-61 Len Chappell Wake Forest PF / C Junior
1961-62 Len Chappell ( 2 ) Wake Forest PF / C Senior
1962-63 Art Heyman * Duke SG / SF Senior
1963-64 Jeff Mullins Duke SF Senior
1964-65 Billy Cunningham North Carolina G / F Senior
1965-66 Steve Vacendak Duke PG Senior
1966-67 Larry Miller North Carolina SG Junior
1967-68 Larry Miller ( 2 ) North Carolina SG Senior
1968-69 John Roche South Carolina PG / SG Sophomore
1969-70 John Roche ( 2 ) South Carolina PG / SG Junior
1970-71 Charlie Davis Wake Forest G Senior
1971-72 Barry Parkhill Virginia SG Junior
1972-73 David Thompson NC State SG / SF Sophomore
Winners
Dickie Hemric of Wake Forest won the first two awards in 1954 and 1955 . John Roche won the award in 1969 and 1970 . David Thompson of NC State is one of only two players to win the award three times ( 1973–1975 ) . Michael Jordan won the award in 1984 as a junior while playing as a Tar Heel . Wake Forest 's Tim Duncan won in 1996 and 1997 . Antawn Jamison won in 1998 while playing for North Carolina . J. J. Redick captured back-to-back ACC Player of the Year Awards in 2005 and 2006 as a Duke Blue Devil . Duke ’ s Jahlil Okafor became the first freshman to win the award in 2015 .
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 (ACC) 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 (the media chose Green while the coaches chose Larkin). 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 (2019). 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.