Tyler Hansbrough is the 2007-08 ACC Male Athlete of the Year. Winners of the Male Athlete of the Year get the McKevlin Award.
UNC’s Hansbrough surprisingly did not receive over half of the total votes. He received only 28 of 67 votes. Somdev Devvarman received 20 votes. Buster Posey received 12 votes.
I’m sure UNC fans would much rather win a championship and sport their North Carolina Tar Heels merchandise rather than have a player with Athlete of the Year honors.
Angela Tincher, pitcher of Virginia Tech softball team, won the Mary Garber Award as the best female athlete. Tincher beat out some other deserving young females.
Hansbrough joins UNC’s Lennie Rosenbluth and Antawn Jamison and Duke’s Christian Laettner as just the fourth player to win national player of the year, ACC Player of the Year, ACC Tournament MVP and NCAA Regional MVP honors in the same year. He led the ACC in scoring, rebounding, free throws made and free throws attempted.
Hansbrough is the 13th UNC player to win the McKevlin Award.
UNC basketball players have won the award 10 times. That ties the mark with Duke men’s basketball for the most McKevlin Awards won by a sport at one school.
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