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UNC Basketball: Trio of Tar Heels earn end-of-season honors

By Blake Cockrum

Mar 6, 2021; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels bench reacts toward the end of the game at Dean E. Smith Center. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 6, 2021; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels bench reacts toward the end of the game at Dean E. Smith Center. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports /
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A trio of UNC basketball players have been named to All-ACC teams for their performances this season.

North Carolina sophomore center Armando Bacot, and UNC freshmen Caleb Love and Day’Ron Sharpe have been honored by the Atlantic Coast Conference for their performances during the 2020-21 college basketball season.

Bacot, a 6-foot-10, 240-pound native of Richmond, Virginia, earned a nod for third team All-ACC, the league announced on Monday morning. He led the 16-9 Tar Heels in scoring this season with 11.7 points per game, and shot a team-high 62.2 percent (among qualified players) along the way. His 7.6 rebounds per game were second only to freshman big man Day’Ron Sharpe, whom he tied this season with a team-best five double-doubles.

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Bacot was joined on the third team by Florida State’s Scottie Barnes and RaiQuan Gray, Miami’s Isaiah Wong, Syracuse’s Quincy Guerrier and Notre Dame’s Prentiss Hubb. Barnes was named the ACC Freshman of the Year, and Sixth Man of the Year.

Love and Sharpe were both named to the ACC All-Freshman team along with Barnes, Duke’s DJ Steward and Louisville’s Jae’Lyn Withers. Love averaged 10.4 points, 3.8 assists and 2.6 rebounds per game in his first season with the Tar Heels. He struggled with his shot this season, connecting on just 31.9 percent from the floor and 23.8 percent from three-point range, but hit nearly 80 percent from the free throw line and led a wildly inexperienced UNC back court.

Sharpe, a player that’s projected to be a first round NBA Draft selection if he chooses to go pro after this season, averaged 9.7 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. He converted 51.3 percent of his field goal attempts, and was a game-changer for Roy Williams and the Tar Heels in the low post. His ability to go up strong with the basketball and throw down powerful dunks, as well as his propensity for affecting opponents’ shots on the defensive end of the court, has turned him into a player that NBA scouts and general managers love.

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