North Carolina senior guard RJ Davis earned Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Week honors, while Notre Dame guard Markus Burton was named ACC Rookie of the Week for the second straight week. Both earned their respective distinctions for a league-best fourth time this season.
ACC men’s basketball weekly honors are determined by a vote of a 15-member media panel and announced on Mondays throughout the regular season.
Davis averaged 28.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.0 steals in home wins over Miami and NC State. The White Plains, New York, native was 18-of-33 from the floor, including 9-of-16 from three and 11-of-14 from the line. He broke the all-time Smith Center scoring record Feb. 26 in the win over Miami with a career-high 42 points (21 in each half) and added six rebounds and four steals. He made a career-high seven 3-pointers (7-of-11), including four in a row over a span of 3:12 that gave UNC a 13-point lead late in the second half. Davis broke Tyler Hansbrough’s Smith Center record of 40 points, set in 2006 against Georgia Tech. He also equaled the third-most points by a Tar Heel in an ACC regular-season game and the most points by a Tar Heel in any game since 1998. Davis became the 10th Tar Heel to score 40 or more. The 42 points were the most in an ACC game since Boston College’s Jerome Robinson scored 46 versus Notre Dame in 2018.
