Breaking: Joy Turns Sour As RJ Davies Is To Be Striped Of His Player Of The Year ACC Honour.
North Carolina’s RJ Davis and Hubert Davis are the 2023-24 Atlantic Coast Conference Player and Coach of the Year, the league announced today.
RJ Davis received 68 of 75 votes for ACC Player of the Year and was the leading vote-getter for first-team All-ACC honors.
The senior guard from White Plains, N.Y., is the 15th Tar Heel to win ACC Player-of-the-Year honors, the first since Justin Jackson in 2016-17.
It is the 16th time a Tar Heel has won the award (Larry Miller won twice), and Davis is the fifth guard to win the award with Phil Ford, Michael Jordan, Joseph Forte and Ty Lawson.
Joining RJ Davis on the All-ACC team are Armando Bacot (second team) and Harrison Ingram (third team), while Bacot was voted to the All-Defensive team and Elliot Cadeau earned All-Freshman team honors.
Davis leads the ACC in scoring at 21.1 points per game. He scored a career-high 42 points on Feb. 26 against Miami to break the all-time Smith Center record.
That was one of 19 times he has scored 20 or more points and three times he scored 30 or more. He won ACC Player-of-the-Week honors four times, the only player in the conference to win more than twice.
He is shooting 41.6% from three-point range, 88.6% from the free throw line, and is averaging 3.5 assists and 1.2 steals per game.
Davis has made 97 three-pointers, the third most in a season by a Tar Heel. He averages 3.1 three-pointers per game, which is on pace to break the single-season UNC record.
Earlier this season, Davis tied the UNC record for consecutive made free throws (41) and set the UNC record for consecutive games with multiple 3FGs (23).
In his third season, Hubert Davis has led the Tar Heels to a 25-6 record and the ACC regular-season ACC championship, their first since 2018-19 and first outright since 2016-17.
Carolina went 8-2 on the road in league play, beat No. 10 Tennessee in the ACC-SEC Challenge earlier this season and has been ranked in the top 10 in the Associated Press poll in 13 of the last 14 weeks.
The Tar Heels led by double-digits in 18 of the 20 ACC games and tied the ACC record for regular-season wins with 17.
Hubert Davis is the fifth Tar Heel to win ACC Coach-of-the-Year honors (a total of 13 times), joining Frank McGuire, Dean Smith (eight times), Bill Guthridge and Roy Williams (2006 and 2011).
The Tar Heels lead the ACC in scoring, rebounding, offensive rebounding and rebound margin, are second in scoring margin and field goal percentage defense and third in three-point percentage defense.
It is the first time Tar Heels won player- and coach-of-the-year awards in the same season since Antawn Jamison and Guthridge in 1997-98.
RJ Davis is the 53rd Tar Heel to earn first-team All-ACC honors (a total of 81 first-team awards, the most in league history).