In a text message to The Associated Press, Smith's father, Dennis Sr., said the family was "still weighing our options" for hiring an agent. Smith was named freshman of the year by the league — the program's first since Hawkeye Whitney shared the award in 1977 — as well as ACC newcomer of the year by the AP. The 19-year-old from Fayetteville also became only the fourth player in league history to have two triple doubles in the same season — Virginia great Ralph Sampson was the only other freshman to do it — and the first of that group to have two during league play. The 6-foot-3 point guard did it in his first full season back from a major knee injury suffered shortly before his senior year of high school, an injury that led him to enroll a semester early in January 2016 to focus on his rehab before making his playing debut that November. The Wolfpack (15-17, 4-14 ACC) lost five games by at least 24 points after being picked to finish sixth in the preseason, a prediction based largely on Smith's arrival.