Duke senior guard Nolan Smith was named the ACC's Player of the Year today. And one day after North Carolina, the regular-season champion, failed to place a player on the league's first-team, all-ACC team, the Tar Heels swept the three other individual awards announced this afternoon.
UNC coach Roy Williams won the league's Coach of the Year award, sophomore forward John Henson won ACC Defensive Player of the Year honors, and freshman wing Harrison Barnes was named the league's Rookie of the Year.
The awards were based on a vote by 75 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.
Smith, who leads the ACC with a scoring average of 21.6 points a game, received 73 votes for the individual honor. His award makes him the 14th Blue Devil — an ACC record — to win the award and the first since J.J. Redick in 2006.
Williams received 52 votes to win the ACC Coach of the Year award, his second since leaving Kansas.
The vote totals were as follows:
ACC Player of the Year
Nolan Smith, Duke (73)
Kyle Singler, Duke (1)
Jordan Williams, Maryland (1)
ACC Coach of the Year
Roy Williams, North Carolina (52)
Brad Brownell, Clemson (8)
Steve Donahue, Boston College (6)
Leonard Hamilton, Florida State (4)
Mike Krzyzewski, Duke (3)
Seth Greenberg, Virginia Tech (1)
Tony Bennett, Virginia (1)
ACC Rookie of the Year
Harrison Barnes, North Carolina (64)
Kendall Marshall, North Carolina (7)
Travis McKie, Wake Forest (2)
Terrell Stoglin, Maryland (1)
ACC Defensive Player of the Year
John Henson, North Carolina (49)
Chris Singleton, Florida State (16)
Iman Shumpert, Georgia Tech (2)
Jordan Williams, Maryland (2)
Malcolm Delaney, Virginia Tech (1)
Jeff Allen, Virginia Tech (1)
Demontez Stitt, Clemson (1)
Kyle Singler, Duke (1)
Nolan Smith, Duke (1)
Assistant sports editor Lorenzo Perez has bounced back-and-forth between The News & Observer's news and sports department several times since joining the newspaper in 1999. His latest assignment has him working with The N&O's ACC writers and online news. E-mail
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thank you voters
Wed, 03/09/2011 - 11:48 — JPDOhioFor ignoring CJ Leslie in your voting for ACC Freshman of the Year.
One more vote
Wed, 03/09/2011 - 12:41 — SurferPerhaps we will never know, but one voter omitted his vote for Rookie of the year and another (or the same voter) left off his vote for Defensive Player of the year as well. But I agree, it is doubtful that CJ did not play well enough to garner a vote for either (now that is putting it nicely).
let me put it another way
Wed, 03/09/2011 - 13:49 — JPDOhioA player with considerable talent who is too lazy to maximize his potential and hurts his team as much as he helps it should not be rewarded with post-season accolades. And this is me being kind.
tar holes bias
Wed, 03/09/2011 - 02:42 — saltydawg1coach K loses his best player after only 8 games, and coach's his team with only one all-acc player, to a finish of only one game behind Roy who had 4 all-acc players, and gets only 3 votes to finish in 5th place!!!
Not only is this vote a farce, but all the many years that duke was the acc champ, and he still didn't win, is the ultimate proof that tar holes like tudor are doing the voting!!
You are conveinently leaving
Wed, 03/09/2011 - 09:15 — chrismg1You are conveinently leaving out the fact that at the begining of the season, and even without irving, duke was supposed to have a cakewalk to the regular season acc title. The finished second.
plus singler inexplicably getting a vote for POY shows there is no bias against duke
HEEL YEA !!!
Tue, 03/08/2011 - 16:55 — unc098HEEL YEA !!!