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ACC Women’s Basketball
A LOOK AHEAD
all-a c returning forces
ALYSSA
THOMAS
Maryland
17.2 ppg; 8.0 rpg
1st-team All-ACCC
NATASHA
HOWARD
Florida State
12.2 ppg; 9.1 rpg
3rd-team All-ACC
CHELSEA
GRAY
Duke
12.5 ppg; 6.1 apg
1st-team All-ACC
STEFANIE
YDERSTROM
Miami
10.6 ppg; 2.1 3PFGpg
3rd-team All-ACC
As a league, the ACC returns 40 of last year’s 60
regular starting players and 97 letterwinners for
the 2012-13 season.
Six teams -- Boston College, Clemson, Duke,
Florida State, Maryland and Virginia Tech -- each
return four starters from last season.
Thirteen of the ACC’s Top 20 scorers and four of the
Top 10 return from a year ago, including 2011-12
ACC Player of the Year Alyssa Thomas of Maryland,
who led the league in scoring at 17.2 ppg.
Eight out of a possible 15 players who received
All-ACC first-, second-, or third-team honors return
for the 2011-12 season, including three of the five
first team members in Maryland’s Thomas, 2011-
12 ACC Freshman of the Year Elizabeth Williams of
Duke and her Blue Devil teammate, Chelsea Gray.
The 12 ACC schools are represented by 216 years
of experience as Miami boasts a league-high 25
years of letterwinners’ experience, including three
returning senior starters
The ACC returns 13 starters that participated in the
2012 NCAA Championship, and 22 of the 40 starters
from all postseason play last season.
Thirty-seven (37) ACC players return to the hardwood
after registering at least one double-double
in 2011-12. The list includes Florida State’s Natasha
Howard, who posted a league-high 12.
ELIZABETH
WILLIAMS
Duke
14.0 ppg; 7.8 rpg
1st-team All-ACC
NIKKI
DIXON
Clemson
12.4 ppg; 2.6 spg
ACC All-Freshman
TIANNA
HAWKINS
Mayland
12.0 ppg; 9.1 rpg
2nd-team All-ACC
SYDNEY
WALLACE
Georgia Tech
7.4 ppg; .800 FT %
ACC All-Freshman
The Maryland tandem of Tianna Hawkins and
Alyssa Thomas posted a combined 21 doubledoubles
in 2011-12 and enter this season with a
combined 39 for their careers.
Four members of the 2011-12 All-ACC Defensive
Team return, led by rising sophomore Elizabeth
Williams of the Duke, last season’s ACC Defensive
Player of the Year. Also named the ACC and
National Freshman of the Year, Williams notched
a freshman record 116 blocked shots and ranked
fourth nationally with a 3.5 per game average.
She became the first league freshman to be named
ACC Defensive Player of the Year and only the third
freshman to be voted to the All-ACC First Team.
According to ESPN’s HoopGurlz’s analysis of
incoming recruiting classes, the ACC will welcome
six of the nation’s top 25 freshmen this season,
including Duke’s Alexis Jones (ranked No. 3),
Maryland’s Malina Howard (No. 8), Clemson’s Jonquel
Jones (No. 17), Maryland’s Tierney Pfirman
(No. 23), Georgia Tech’s Aaliyah Whiteside (No. 24)
and North Carolina’s Xylina McDaniel (No. 26)
In addition to last season’s leading scorer
(Maryland’s Thomas), the ACC welcomes back
last season’s leaders in field goal percentage
(Maryland’s Hawkins), assists (Duke’s Gray),
3-point percentage (Duke’s Tricia Liston), blocked
shots (Duke’s Williams) and offensive rebounds
(Maryland’s Hawkins).
ROSTER RETURNEES
Years
School # Starters # Letter Lettered
Boston College ........ 4 ............. 7 ............15
Clemson .................. 4 ............. 7 ..............9
Duke ....................... 4 ........... 10 ............19
Florida State ........... 4 ........... 10 ............24
Georgia Tech ........... 2 ............. 8 ............16
Maryland ................ 4 ............. 7 ............15
Miami...................... 3 ........... 10 ............25
North Carolina ........ 2 ............. 7 ............13
NC State .................. 3 ............. 9 ............18
Virginia ................... 3 ............. 6 ............18
Virginia Tech ........... 4 ............. 9 ............22
Wake Forest ............. 3 ............. 7 ............22
Totals.................. 40 .......... 97 ........ 216
ACC BY CLASS
School Fr. So. Jr. Sr.
Boston College .......3 ........2 ....... 6 .......1
Clemson .................3 ........7 ....... 2 .......0
Duke .......................4 ........3 ....... 5 .......1
Florida State ...........2 ........4 ....... 3 .......5
Georgia Tech ...........6 ........1 ....... 4 .......3
Maryland................3 ........1 ....... 5 .......2
Miami .....................3 ........4 ....... 3 .......5
North Carolina ........6 ........4 ....... 0 .......3
NC State .................1 ........4 ....... 5 .......1
Virginia ..................3 ........2 ....... 3 .......4
Virginia Tech ..........4 ........2 ....... 4 .......4
Wake Forest ............2 ........3 ....... 2 .......5
Totals .................. 40 ..... 37 ..... 42 ... 34
ACC BY STATE & COUNTRY
Georgia ................ 21 Alabama .......... 1
Florida ................. 20 Indiana ............ 1
North Carolina ...... 19 Minnesota ........ 1
Virginia ................ 10 Nebraska ......... 1
Maryland................ 9 Colorado ............ 1
Pennsylvania .......... 8 Indiana ............ 1
New Jersey ............. 8 Oklahoma ..........1
Texas ...................... 6 Tennessee ........ 1
South Carolina ........ 6 Maine............... 1
Ohio ...................... 5 Delaware ......... 1
New York ............... 4 D.C. .................. 1
California ................ 4
Illinois .................... 3 INTERNATIONAL:
Massachusetts ........ 2 Sweden ............ 3
Washington ............ 2 Bahamas .......... 2
Louisiana ................ 2 Canada ............ 2
Michigan ................ 2 Nigeria ............. 2
New Hampshire ..... 2 France .............. 1
Arizona ................... 2 Spain ............... 1
Kentucky ................ 1
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