ACC ROOKIE OF THE YEAR AWARDS, 1976-2002 ---------------------------------------- TIDBITS ------- PRIOR TO THE AWARD Beginning with the 1974 season, freshmen became eligible for varsity basketball. The first two seasons of freshmen eligibility, the ACC did not award a Rookie Of The Year. It is not clear who would have won had their been an award in 1974 - but it would certainly have gone to one of: Skip Brown, WFU; Walter Davis, UNC; or Wayne "Tree" Rollins, CLEM. There is no doubt that had the award existed in 1975 it would have gone to Skip Wise of CLEM - after all, he was named to the first-team ALL-ACC squad. Brad Davis, Phil Ford, Rod Griffin, and Kenny Carr would have been the likely runners-up, in no particular order. WINNERS BY SCHOOL 9 Georgia Tech (83,84,85,86,88,90,93,96,02) 5 North Carolina (81,82,87,97,00) 4 Duke (76,77,78,01) 3 Virginia (80,89,99) 2 Wake Forest (91,98) 2 Maryland (79,94) 1 Florida State (92) 1 NC State (77) 1 Clemson (95) FRESHMEN ON ALL-ACC TEAMS First Team: Skip Wise, CLEM 75 Kenny Anderson, GT 90 Joe Smith, MARY 94 Stephon Marbury, GT 96 Antawn Jamison, UNC 96 Second Team: Brad Davis, MARY 75 Gene Banks, DUKE 78 Jeff Lamp, VIRG 78 Mark Price, GT 83 Johnny Dawkins,DUKE 83 J.R. Reid, UNC 87 Rodney Rogers, WFU 91 Joseph Forte, UNC 00 THE WINNERS: -------------- 02 Ed Nelson, GT 01 Chris Duhon, Duke 00 Joseph Forte, UNC 99 Chris Williams, VIRG 98 Robert O'Kelley, WFU 97 Ed Cota, UNC 96 Stephon Marbury, GT 95 Greg Buckner, CLEM 94 Joe Smith, MARY 93 Martice Moore, GT 92 Bob Sura, FSU 91 Rodney Rogers, WFU 90 Kenny Anderson, GT 89 Bryant Stith, VIRG 88 Dennis Scott, GT 87 J.R. Reid, UNC 86 Tom Hammonds, GT 85 Duane Ferrell, GT 84 Bruce Dalrymple, GT 83 Mark Price, GT 82 Michael Jordan, UNC 81 Sam Perkins, UNC 80 Ralph Sampson, VIRG 79 Buck Williams, MARY 78 Gene Banks, DUKE 77 tie - Mike Gminski, DUKE & Hawkeye Whitney, NCSU 76 Jim Spanarkel, DUKE THE VOTING: ------------- 76 1 135 Jim Spanarkel, DUKE 76 2 12 Larry Gibson, MARY 76 3 3 Otis Fulton, VIRG 76 4 2 Glenn Sudhop, NCSU 76 5 1 Greg Coles, CLEM ----------------------------------- 77 1t 58 Mike Gminski, DUKE 77 1t 58 Hawkeye Whitney, NCSU 77 3 9 Mike O'Koren, UNC 77 - v Chubby Wells, CLEM 77 - v Clyde Austin, NCSU 77 - v Frank Johnson, WFU 77 - v Jo Jo Hunter, MARY ----------------------------------- 78 1 115 Gene Banks, DUKE 78 2 10 Jeff Lamp, VIRG 79 1 81 Buck Williams, MARY 79 2 12 Alvis Rogers, WFU 79 3t 6 Guy Morgan, WFU 79 3t 6 Jeff Jones, VIRG ----------------------------------- 80 1 88 Ralph Sampson, VIRG 80 2 16 Sidney Lowe, NCSU ----------------------------------- 81 1 85 Sam Perkins, UNC 81 - v Othell Wilson, VIRG 81 - v Vincent Hamilton, CLEM 81 - v Clark Bynum, CLEM ----------------------------------- 82 1 78 Michael Jordan, UNC 82 2 24 Adrian Branch, MARY ----------------------------------- 83 1 83 Mark Price, GT 83 2 53 Johnny Dawkins, DUKE 83 3 1 Ernie Myers, NCSU ----------------------------------- 84 1 74 Bruce Dalrymple, GT 84 2 29 Kenny Smith, UNC 84 3 20 Tommy Amaker, DUKE 84 4 5 Olden Polynice, VIRG ----------------------------------- 85 1 78 Duane Ferrell, GT 85 2 20 Mel Kennedy, VIRG 85 3 13 Derrick Lewis, MARY 85 4 6 Charlie Thomas, WFU 85 5 4 Grayson Marshall, CLEM 85 6 1 Kevin Strickland, DUKE ----------------------------------- 86 1 120 Tom Hammonds, GT 86 2 8 Jeff Lebo, UNC 86 3t 2 Danny Ferry, DUKE 86 3t 2 Richard Morgan, VIRG 86 5 1 Rod Watson, WFU ----------------------------------- 87 1 135 J.R. Reid, UNC 87 2 5 Sam Ivy, WFU ----------------------------------- 88 1 103 Dennis Scott, GT 88 2 14 Chris Corchiani, NCSU 88 3 8 Brian Williams, MARY ----------------------------------- 89 1 83 Bryant Stith, VIRG 89 2 23 Jerrod Mustaf, MARY 89 3 3 Chris King, WFU ----------------------------------- 90 1 89 Kenny Anderson, GT 90 2 2 Bobby Hurley, DUKE ----------------------------------- 91 1 103 Rodney Rogers, WFU 91 2 1 Grant Hill, DUKE ----------------------------------- 92 1 49 Bob Sura, FSU 92 2 39 James Forrest, GT 92 3 17 Sharone Wright, CLEM 92 4 1 Travis Best, GT ----------------------------------- 93 1 46 Martice Moore, GT 93 2 33 Johnny Rhodes, MARY 93 3 11 Drew Barry, GT 93 4 4 Exree Hipp, MARY 93 5 2 Chris Collins, DUKE ----------------------------------- 94 1 105 Joe Smith, MARY 94 2 4 Tim Duncan, WFU 94 3 2 Rasheed Wallace, UNC 94 4t 1 Jeff Capel, DUKE 94 4t 1 Jerry Stackhouse, UNC ----------------------------------- 95 1 41 Greg Buckner, CLEM 95 2 30 Matt Harpring, GT 95 3t 16 Curtis Staples, VIRG 95 3t 16 Ishua Benjamin, NCSU 95 5 3 unnamed others ------------------------------------ 96 1 94 Stephon Marbury, GT 96 2 12 Antawn Jamison, UNC 96 3t 1 Courtney Alexander, VIRG 96 3t 1 Terrell McIntyre, CLEM ----------------------------------- 97 1 76 Ed Cota, UNC 97 2 34 Damon Thornton, NCSU 97 3 9 Loren Woods, WFU ------------------------------------ 98 1 53 Robert O'Kelley, WFU 98 2 43 Dion Glover, GT 98 3 3 Shane Battier, DUKE 98 4 2 Kenny Inge, NCSU 98 5t 1 Elton Brand, DUKE 98 5t 1 Alvin Jones, GT ------------------------------------ 99 1 83 Chris Williams, VIRG 99 2 10 Corey Maggette, DUKE 99 3 2 Kris Lang, UNC 99 4 1 Will Solomon, CLEM ------------------------------------ 00 1 48 Joseph Forte, UNC 00 2 43 Jason Williams, DUKE 00 3 7 Steven Blake, MARY 00 4 2 Mike Dunleavy, DUKE 00 5t 1 Damien Wilkins, NCSU 00 5t 1 Carlos Boozer, DUKE 00 5t 1 Travis Watson, VIRG ------------------------------------ 01 1 52 Chris Duhon, DUKE 01 2 8 Tony Stockman, CLEM 01 3 6 Michael Joiner, FSU 01 4 2 Halston Lane, FSU 01 5t 1 Chris Hobbs, CLEM 01 5t 1 Marvin Lewis, GT 01 5t 1 Chris Wilcox, MARY --------------------------------- 02 1 37 Ed Nelson, GT 02 2 31 Julius Hodge, NCSU 02 3 5 B.J. Elder, GT 02 4 3 Ilian Evtimov, NCSU 02 5t 2 Josh Powell, NCSU 02 5t 2 Daniel Ewing, DUKE 02 5t 2 Keith Jenifer, VIRG 02 5t 2 Jawad Williams, UNC ---------------------------------