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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Virginia forward Thijs DeRidder earned first-team All-ACC honors, along with a spot on the conference’s all-freshmen team. Center Ugo Onyenso was named to the all-defensive team and finished third in Defensive Player of the Year balloting.
DeRidder had 11 20-point games and three double-doubles during the regular season. Onyenso tied for the ACC lead in blocked shots. DeRidder is UVA’s first first-team selection since guard Sam Hauser in 2021.
Duke’s Cameron Boozer was named the conference’s Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year. His teammate, Culpeper native Maliq Brown, earned ACC Defensive Player of the Year and Sixth Man of the Year honors. Blue Devils’ Jon Scheyer took home the league’s Coach of the Year award, while Wake Forest’s Juke Harris was named the Most Improved Player.
Virginia’s Jacari White came in second to Brown in the Sixth Man of the Year vote, while Cavaliers coach Ryan Odom finished third in the Coach of the Year race behind Scheyer and Miami’s Jai Lucas.
UVA finished second in the ACC, behind Duke, and earned a double-bye for this week’s conference tournament in Charlotte. It opens play on Thursday at noon.
Boozer and DeRidder were joined on the first team by North Carolina’s Caleb Wilson, Stanford’s Ebuka Okorie and Miami’s Malik Reneau.
Voting was done by a panel that included the 18 ACC head coaches and a panel of 68 media members. (Cville Right Now editor-in-chief Mike Barber was a voter. His ballot can be seen here.)
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