North Carolina Tar Heels Unanimous Pick to Win ACC Championship

North Carolina Tar Heels are the unanimous preseason choice to win the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) championship, according to the ACC media at the annual ACC Operation Basketball last week.

The Tar Heels received all 40 votes first-place votes and 480 points overall. Duke (436 points) was picked to finish second, followed by Wake Forest (354), Miami (344), Clemson (306), Virginia Tech (298), Maryland (192), Georgia Tech (186), NC State (179), Florida State (145), Boston College (123) and Virginia (79).

UNC, which has won the conference regular season and tournament titles for two years running, has been the media's choice as preseason ACC champ in each of the last three seasons. The Tar Heels have been the media's top pick in the preseason an ACC-high 18 times in the 40-year history of the league's annual media gathering.

North Carolina senior Tyler Hansbrough, who was the unanimous preseason and postseason pick for ACC Player of the Year in 2007-08, was again the unanimous pick for the conference's top player this season.

Hansbrough and Boston College's Tyrese Rice were unanimous picks for the preseason All-ACC team and were joined on the squad by North Carolina's Ty Lawson, Miami's Jack McClinton and Duke's Gerald Henderson.

Wake Forest's Al-Farouq Aminu was named the preseason ACC Rookie of the Year, receiving 18 votes. Other freshmen receiving multiple votes for rookie-of-the-year honors included Virginia's Sylven Landesberg (four), Miami's DeQuan Jones (two), Wake Forest's Tony Woods (two and Georgia Tech's Iman Shumpert (two).

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