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Hansbrough, Lawson Named AP All-America
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By UNC Athletic Comm.
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Posted Mar 30, 2009

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. --- North Carolina senior forward Tyler Hansbrough was named first-team All-America by The Associated Press for the second consecutive season and solidified consensus first-team All-America honors for the third year in a row.
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Hansbrough is the first player to accomplish that feat since Oklahoma's Wayman Tisdale and Georgetown's Patrick Ewing in 1985.

Junior point guard Ty Lawson, the 2009 ACC Player of the Year and NCAA South Regional MVP, was named to the AP’s second team. It was the highest All-America finish by a Carolina point guard since Kenny Smith was a first-teamer in 1987.

Hansbrough has earned first-team All-America honors this season from three of the four organizations the NCAA uses to determine consensus honors ­ The Associated Press, The Sporting News and the United States Basketball Writers Association of America. The National Association of Basketball Coaches will announce its 10-man first team on Saturday in Detroit.

Hansbrough is only the 14th player since World War II to earn consensus first-team All-America honors three times. Jack Cobb, who played at Carolina from 1924-26, is the only other Tar Heel to be a three-time honoree. The 13 others since 1945 to accomplish it are Oklahoma State’s Bob Kurland, DePaul’s George Mikan, Kentucky’s Ralph Beard, LaSalle’s Tom Gola, Cincinnati’s Oscar Robertson, Ohio State’s Jerry Lucas, UCLA’s Lew Alcindor, LSU’s Pete Maravich, UCLA’s Bill Walton, NC State’s David Thompson, Virginia’s Ralph Sampson, Ewing and Tisdale.
Hansbrough is only the third Tar Heel to repeat as an Associated Press All-America with Phil Ford (1977-78) and Michael Jordan (1983-84). Joining Hansbrough on the first team were Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin, Davidson’s Stephen Curry, Arizona State’s James Harden and Pittsburgh's DeJuan Blair. Lawson was joined on the second team by Connecticut’s Hasheem Thabeet, Kentucky's Jodie Meeks, Notre Dame’s Luke Harangody and Marquette’s Jerel McNeal.
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Not super important, but it doesn't hurt. Hansbrough has solidified first team, which is cool.

 

yay toney douglas!

 

yes, you are.

 

So which Big East team had more All-Americans than UNC?

 

:laffin:

 

the debate was never whether there was a BE team better than UNC, you shit-eating fucking 'tard. It was whether the Big East was a better conference than the monumentally overrated ACC. that's been proven without question: first by the results of the tournament and now by the number of All-Americans from each conference. UNC winning the title won't change that one iota.

 

Since the ACC would factor in UNC and the Big East would factor in those 4 lackeys at the bottom of the conference, then sure it would. Also, the Big East did get very favorable seedings for the tourney which they shouldn't have by the fact that 2 of their number 1 seeds didn't make it to the final four. Both conferences are very good and the Big East does have a nice edge with how far they got in the tourney.

You need to look back over some of your recent statements where you were wrong as well Hitler Trollskin.

 

There wasn't even a debate here. He posted a thread about two UNC players getting named All-Americans.

 

The title of the thread suggests Alcoholics Anonymous.