I could hear Rodney Dangerfield saying “I get no respect” when I read that the Tar Heels were robbed in the All-ACC voting. As the article goes on to say: “Never before has an outright regular-season ACC champ failed to have a player on the first unit.” And personally, with Tyler Zeller, John Henson and Harrison Barnes all on the second team this truly feels like the media snubbed North Carolina. Wait, no, they didn’t snub the Heels, they robbed them, plain and simple! And I do not care if in return head coach Roy Williams wins the Coach of the Year and Barnes takes Player of the Year, cause one thing has nothing to do with the other.
Zeller, Henson and Barnes were key pieces in what has been an amazing turnaround and the reward is to see two Blue Devils on the first team, including Kyle Singler, who was non-significant in either game against the Heels. (I do not remember whom, but there was a tweet during the UNC/Duke game where someone from the local media said “has Singler played himself out of a 1st team All-ACC spot”. Guess we have the answer to that). On the positive side Kendall Marshall was put on the third team All-ACC squad and Henson is part of the All-D squad, but once again, that makes no difference to me, cause this truly shows a bias versus the Heels and has nothing to do with who was good on the court and who wasn’t, but more about what side of the fence each voting member stands on. ACC Sports has the complete list of all the squads, and frankly I am not happy with them at all.
First team
Nolan Smith, Duke (225)
Jordan Williams, Maryland (210)
Malcolm Delaney, Virginia Tech (202)
Kyle Singler, Duke (199)
Reggie Jackson, Boston College (190)
Second team
Tyler Zeller, North Carolina (161)
John Henson, North Carolina (148)
Harrison Barnes, North Carolina (145)
Iman Shumpert, Georgia Tech (132)
Jeff Allen, Virginia Tech (131)
Third team
Chris Singleton, Florida State (126)
Demontez Stitt, Clemson (81)
Joe Trapani, Boston College (63)
Malcolm Grant, Miami (62)
Kendall Marshall, North Carolina (45)
All-Freshman Team
Harrison Barnes, North Carolina (75)
Travis McKie, Wake Forest (74)
Kendall Marshall, North Carolina (71)
Terrell Stoglin, Maryland (62)
C.J. Leslie, N.C. State (46)
All-Defensive Team
John Henson, North Carolina (75)
Chris Singleton, Florida State (64)
Iman Shumpert, Georgia Tech (60)
Nolan Smith, Duke (26)
Jerai Grant, Clemson (20)
Sure, there is one theory that says that Henson, Zeller and Barnes took votes away from one another, but wait, if we had only two of the three it would probably be safe to say that we would not be talking about Carolina being the ACC Regular Season Champs, so that theory makes little to no sense. Over at the TarHeelFan the discussion is that there is no standard on how the seventy-five voters make their selection. So, if the took the whole season, UNC did struggle at the beginning. That too could be true, but in the end they did win the conference, no?
In the end we will never know, but the next time I hear a “media person” say that bloggers are way too partial I will have to ask them about this voting of theirs and how they could have been unpartial with the results they came up with. Sorry, give me whatever excuse/theory you want, this is a scam and whomever did this should be held accountable. The same people that will go on twitter/their site/shows/whatever else and talk about how can it be possible that this team is ranked higher than that one have now put no one from Carolina on the first team All-ACC. Especially when last season, with the season UNC was having, everyone believed that if Ed Davis hadn’t gotten hurt he would have been on one of the All-ACC teams.
Original Story:
http://www.the5thcorner.com/robbed
