Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 6, 1990 TAG: 9003061841
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From staff and Associated Press reports
DATELINE: RALEIGH, N.C. LENGTH: Medium
Georgia Tech junior Dennis Scott, the leading scorer in the ACC with 27.6 points per game, was named on each of 96 ballots and was joined on the first team by Yellow Jackets freshman Kenny Anderson.
Anderson is the second freshman in the ACC's 37-year history to make the first five. Clemson's Skip Wise was the first, earning the honor in 1975.
Senior Elden Campbell and junior Dale Davis became the first Clemson twosome to make the first team and, for the first time, none of the conference's four teams from North Carolina had a first-team selection.
There were no repeat selections. N.C. State junior Rodney Monroe, the lone underclassman on the first team in 1988-89, was voted to the second team.
Monroe was joined on the second team by Duke teammates Phil Henderson and Christian Laettner, Maryland's Tony Massenburg and Georgia Tech's Brian Oliver.
Chris Corchiani, Monroe's backcourt partner for the Wolfpack, was on the third team. Also on that team were Rick Fox of North Carolina, John Crotty of Virginia, Jerrod Mustaf of Maryland and Alaa Abdelnaby of Duke.
The top player, coach and freshman will be announced following the ACC Tournament.
Players received two points for being voted to the first team and one point for being voted to the second team. Scott was first in the voting, followed by Stith, Anderson, Davis and Campbell.
Stith, the ACC rookie of the year in 1988-89, has had seven games of 25 points or more and is averaging 20.4 points and almost seven rebounds per game.
Stith hit last-second shots in the Cavaliers' victories over Wake Forest (71-70) and Georgia Tech (73-71). He scored 37 points in the dramatic victory at Wake and had 35 in UVa's 96-91 overtime victory at Marquette.
Stith is only the eighth UVa player to make first-team All-ACC, and only Stith and Richard Morgan (1989) have made first team since Ralph Sampson completed a three-year run in 1983.
"He's a player who's had to carry a considerable load for us, and the guy has just delivered in fantastic fashion," said Terry Holland, the Cavaliers' coach. "He's played consistently for us with very few bad games.
"He's had the big games, and he's had them at the times when we needed him to have big games."
Scott, 6 feet 8 and slimmed down to 225 pounds, averaged 6.6 rebounds per game, two more than last season, and bombed away from 3-point range at a 42 percent clip.
"After making the third team last year, it feels good to get that respect," Scott said. "I look at the list of players and that first team is a great group of five. It's an honor. I'm still surprised to see my name there."
Georgia Tech coach Bobby Cremins asked voters not to consider Anderson for the first team this year, but they ignored him. He leads the ACC in assists, with 238, and is fourth in scoring at 20.5 points per game.
Davis, a 6-11, 225-pound Georgia native, is averaging 15.7 points per game and led the ACC in rebounding (11.2) and field-goal percentage (63.4). He has 53 blocked shots despite playing with a stress fracture in his right foot for most of the season.
Campbell, the other half of Clemson's "Duo of Doom," led the ACC in blocked shots as the Tigers won the regular-season title. The 6-foot-11 senior averages 17.3 points and nearly eight rebounds per game and recently broke the Clemson career scoring record.
"Although it's a team effort that has garnered our title in the regular season, without these two men doing the job that they did, we wouldn't have the title," said Cliff Ellis, Clemson's coach.
by CNB