UNC’s Wilson, VT’s Avdalas Share First ACC Men’s Basketball Weekly Honors for 2025-26 Season

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – North Carolina freshman ahead Caleb Wilson and Virginia Tech freshman guard Neoklis Avdalas shared Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Player and Rookie of the Week honors within the first set of ACC weekly awards for the 2025-26 season, as introduced Monday.
 
ACC males’s basketball weekly honors are nominated by the respective colleges and decided by a vote of an 18-member media panel.
 
Caleb Wilson, Fr., F, North Carolina (Atlanta, Georgia)
• Averaged 23.0 factors, 5.5 rebounds and three.0 assists and shot 81.0% from the ground (17 for 21) in UNC’s wins over Central Arkansas and No. 19 Kansas. Led all gamers in scoring in every of the video games.
• Scored 22 factors on Monday, November 3, versus Central Arkansas, the fourth-most factors by a Tar Heel freshman in his first school sport.
• Led the Tar Heels to an 87-74 win over Nineteenth-ranked Kansas on Friday, November 7, with 24 factors, seven rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals.
• Became the primary Tar Heel freshman ever to attain greater than 20 factors in his first two video games, and simply the third to do this no matter class.
• Was the second Tar Heel freshman to whole at the very least 24 factors, seven rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals in a sport, becoming a member of Coby White towards Virginia Tech in 2019.
 
Neoklis Avdalas, Fr., G, Virginia Tech (Kalamata, Greece)
• Shined in his first two collegiate video games, main the Hokies in scoring at 20.5 factors per sport and assists at 7.5 per sport, as Virginia Tech defeated Charleston Southern and Providence.
• On Saturday, the native of Kalamata, Greece, placed on a clinic, guiding the Hokies previous Providence in extra time with a 33-point efficiency, together with 5 3-pointers, that additionally included 5 rebounds and 6 assists. His stat line is the primary for a Tech participant since February of 2021.
• The 33-point effort marked the highest-scoring output by any freshman in Division I final week. His 30-point sport was the primary for a VT freshman since Landers Nolley in 2019.
• In the season-opening win over Charleston Southern on Monday, he tallied eight factors and led all gamers with 9 assists.
 
2025-26 ACC Players of the Week
Nov. 10 – Caleb Wilson, Fr., F, North Carolina; Neoklis Avdalas, Fr., G, Virginia Tech
 
2025-26 ACC Rookies of the Week
Nov. 10 – Caleb Wilson, Fr., F, North Carolina; Neoklis Avdalas, Fr., G, Virginia Tech