GREENSBORO, N.C. – Sophomore forward Nunu Agara has been named to the All-ACC Second Team, the conference announced Tuesday prior to the start of the ACC Tournament in Greensboro. The 2024-25 All-ACC Team was determined by the league’s head coaches and Blue Ribbon Panel.
Agara has taken a massive leap and is one of the NCAA’s most improved players this season. After averaging 5.4 points and 2.9 rebounds as a freshman, she’s putting up 15.9 points (+10.5) and 7.6 rebounds (+4.7) per game as a sophomore.
Twelfth in the league in scoring and eighth in rebounding, Agara is one of five major conference underclassmen averaging 15/7/2 along with Vanderbilt sophomore Khamil Pierre (20.8 ppg, 9.6 rpg, 2.2 apg), Oklahoma State sophomore Stailee Heard (15.8 ppg, 7.8 rpg, 2.2 apg), Kentucky sophomore Clara Strack (15.3 ppg, 9.5 rpg, 2.7 apg) and UConn freshman Sarah Strong (16.1 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 3.4 apg). The last ACC players to average 15/7/2 for an entire season were Virginia Tech’s Elizabeth Kitley (18.2 ppg, 10.4 rpg, 2.0 apg) and Notre Dame’s Maddy Westbeld (15.2 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 2.5 apg) in 2020-21.
In seven games against ranked opponents, she’s averaging 16.6 points and 9.1 rebounds and has made 9-of-14 (.429) from behind the arc. She has scored in double figures in 20 of her 23 games this season, including five 20-point efforts, and has a double-double in six of her last 12 games.
Agara had 29 points and 13 rebounds in Stanford’s overtime loss at No. 5 LSU on Dec. 5 and shot 75.0 percent from the floor (12-of-16). According to Sports Reference, she is the fifth DI player since 2002-03 to have 29 points and 13 rebounds in a true road game against an AP top five opponent and the only one to do it on better than 60.0 percent shooting. This others are: NaLyssa Smith (Baylor) at No. 3 Maryland (30 pts, 15 rebs, .560 fg%) on Nov. 21, 2021; Elizabeth Kitley (Virginia Tech) at No. 2 NC State (30 pts, 13 rebs, .591 fg%) on Jan. 24, 2021; Crystal Bradford (Central Michigan) at No. 4 Notre Dame (30 pts, 13 rebs, .429 fg%) on Dec. 22, 2013; and Alysha Clark (MTSU) at No. 2 Oklahoma (31 pts, 16 rebs, .444 fg%) on Nov. 19, 2008.
Teammate Tess Heal finished third in the Sixth Player of the Year voting. She has come off the bench in Stanford’s last 16 games and is averaging 8.7 points on 55.6 percent shooting (50-of-90), including 48.8 percent from deep (20-of-41). Her 8.7 points per game as a sub in ACC contests were fifth best in the league behind Duke’s Toby Fournier (15.7 ppg), Georgia Tech’s Dani Carnegie (12.4 ppg), Duke’s Oluchi Okananwa (10.5 ppg) and Clemson’s Hannah Kohn (8.9 ppg).
Stanford, the No. 11 seed in Greensboro, begins its first ACC Tournament against No. 14 seed Clemson on Wednesday, March 5 at 3:30 p.m. PT/6:30 p.m. ET on ACC Network.