GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Virginia Tech men's basketball team has placed four players on the 2019 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Men's Basketball team, as announced Friday by Commissioner John Swofford. Graduate students Ahmed Hill and Justin Robinson, along with sophomores Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Wabissa Bede make the 25-man team.
Robinson, a graduate student from Manassas, Virginia, earns the honor for the second time in his career. He was also selected in 2017. Robinson earned his degree in communication studies and a minor in business leadership in December and is currently working towards his master's degree.
Hill, a graduate student from Augusta, Georgia, will graduate this summer with a master's degree in agricultural leadership and community education. He earned his undergraduate degree in May 2018 in communications studies.
Alexander-Walker, a sophomore from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Bede, a sophomore from North Andover, Massachusetts are both majoring in communications studies with minors in business leadership.
To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during his academic career.
The quartet are four of 25 players named to this year's team. North Carolina's Luke Maye was named the recipient of the league's 2019 Skip Prosser Award, given annually to the top scholar-athlete in ACC men's basketball. It is named in memory of Wake Forest head basketball coach George Edward "Skip" Prosser, who passed away on July 26, 2007. This is the second consecutive season Maye has won the award.