As you probably heard, the ACC released it’s All-ACC Teams yesterday. The first team might be the least controversial in ACC history. It’s especially surprising with twelve teams to choose from now, but the top five guys were pretty much a given – Tyler Hansbrough, Jared Dudley, Al Thornton, Sean Singletary and Zabian Dowdell. They all had between 302 and 318 points in the voting. There was a big gap down to 232 points for JR Reynolds on the second team.
It’s really hard to think of a year with less overall controversy in the voting. The local radio guys were trying to work up some ire about Kyle Visser on the third team and Jon Scheyer beating out Thad Young and Grievis Vasquez for the All-Freshman Team, but those are pretty minor gripes.
The defensive team surprised me a bit. I thought DJ Strawberry would be the runaway vote leader, but he actually came in fourth. It looks like voters think steals=great defense. That has some merit of course, but there’s a hell of a lot more to playing D than just taking the ball away. In fact, you can play awesome, shutdown D without collecting a single steal.
One thing I miss is that they used to release the full results, including every player who received votes. It’s always a trip to see who got one or two votes from suck-up beat reporters.
BTW, I hope to get the season-end Prouty (and Irwin) ratings up later this week. It’ll be interesting to see how that comes out relative to these results. I have a hunch they’ll be pretty close this year.
All-ACC Team
First team
*Jared Dudley, Boston College (106), 318
*Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina (106), 318
*Al Thornton, Florida State (106), 318
Sean Singletary, Virginia (100), 312
Zabian Dowdell, Virginia Tech (90), 302
Second team
J.R. Reynolds, Virginia (20), 232
D.J. Strawberry, Maryland (2), 180
Tyrese Rice, Boston College, 177
Josh McRoberts, Duke, 159
Brandan Wright, North Carolina, 150
Third team
Kyle Visser, Wake Forest, 120
Javaris Crittenton, Georgia Tech, 104
Brandon Costner, N.C. State, 94
Jamon Gordon, Virginia Tech, 61
Jack McClinton, Miami, 48
Honorable mention (20 or more points)
Ben McCauley, N.C. State, 36
James Mays, Clemson, 34
DeMarcus Nelson, Duke, 34
James Gist, Maryland, 28
Ekene Ibekwe, Maryland, 22
All-Freshman Team
*Javaris Crittenton, Georgia Tech, 106
*Brandan Wright, North Carolina, 106
Brandon Costner, N.C. State, 95
Ty Lawson, North Carolina, 64
Jon Scheyer, Duke, 54
Honorable mention (20 or more votes)
Thaddeus Young, Georgia Tech, 42
Greivis Vasquez, Maryland, 37
All-Defensive Team
Jamon Gordon, Virginia Tech, 96
Ekene Ibekwe, Maryland, 65
Zabian Dowdell, Virginia Tech, 59
D.J. Strawberry, Maryland, 55
Josh McRoberts, Duke, 46
Honorable mention (20 or more votes)
Mario West, Georgia Tech, 33
DeMarcus Nelson, Duke, 25
James Mays, Clemson, 24
Vernon Hamilton, Clemson, 20
* unanimous selection
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