Published Mar 10, 2025
Hunter Sallis picked as first-team All-ACC player
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Hunter Sallis has company that only includes Wake Forest hall of famers.

Sallis is a first-team All-ACC selection for the second straight season, as announced by the league Monday evening. Fellow senior guard Cameron Hildreth was named an honorable mention All-ACC player.

Sallis is the first player from Wake Forest to repeat as a first-team All-ACC pick since Tim Duncan was on three straight, between 1995-97. He’s the 10th Deacon to land a first-team All-ACC nod in multiple seasons.

The others are: Dickie Hemric (1954-55), Len Chappell (1960-62), Bob Leonard (1965-66), Charlie Davis (1969-71), Skip Brown (1975, ’77), Rod Griffin (1977-78), Rodney Rogers (1992-93), Randolph Childress (1994-95) and Duncan.

All of those players have been inducted into Wake’s hall of fame.

The 6-5, 185-pound guard who’s been at Wake Forest for two seasons after transferring from Gonzaga leads the Deacons with 18 points per game. Sallis’ 3-pointers made (42) and assists (88) are also the most on the team, and he’s averaging 5.1 rebounds per game

Hildreth is averaging 14.9 points per game and leads the Deacons with 51 steals. He received one vote for the league’s defensive player of the year award.

Here are the All-ACC teams, as voted on by a select panel of the league’s media and coaches. There were 81 total voters and coaches could not vote for their own players:

All-ACC first-team

Name, school, voting points

Cooper Flagg, Duke, 400

Maxime Raynaud, Stanford, 392

Chucky Hepburn, Louisville, 364

Chase Hunter, Clemson, 328

Hunter Sallis, Wake Forest, 257

All-ACC second-team

RJ Davis, UNC, 241

Markus Burton, Notre Dame, 238

Ian Schieffelin, Clemson, 225

Kon Knueppel, Duke, 208

Jamir Watkins, FSU, 150

All-ACC third-team

Terrence Edwards Jr., Louisville, 125

Tyrese Proctor, Duke, 72

Baye Ndongo, Georgia Tech, 72

Boopie Miller, SMU, 71

Jaland Lowe, Pittsburgh, 62

All-ACC honorable mention

Matthew Cleveland, Miami, 49

Andrej Stojakovic, California, 48

Naithan George, Georgia Tech, 40

Isaac McKneely, Virginia, 38

J.J. Starling, Syracuse, 32

Donald Hand Jr., Boston College, 29

Cameron Hildreth, Wake Forest, 26

Khaman Maluach, Duke, 23

Viktor Lakhin, Clemson, 20

Eddie Lampkin, Syracuse, 19

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.