Booker Makes Second-Team All-ACC, All-Defensive Team

Greensboro, NC - Clemson forward Trevor Booker was named a second-team All-ACC performer Monday, as announced by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association (ACSMA). It marks the first All-ACC honor in Booker's career, although he was a first-team All-Tournament selection last season. Senior captain K.C. Rivers earned honorable mention.

Booker leads the Tigers in scoring at 15.2 points per game, and in league scoring at 15.0 points per game. He currently leads the ACC in field goal percentage (.569) and rebounds per game (9.7), and is second in blocks per game (2.1). He also leads the league in defensive rebounds per game and is fourth in offensive rebounding. Booker averaged a double-double in ACC play, the only player in the league to accomplish the feat.

Booker, a native of Whitmire, SC, tied with Toney Douglas as the leading vote-getter for the All-Defensive Team. He is the ACC's active leader with 203 blocked shots and is second in league history in total blocks among players 6'7" or shorter.

Booker leads the team with 62 blocked shots and is third on the squad with 42 steals. He was one of only three players in the ACC with at least 40 blocks and 40 steals in the regular season. He is the first Clemson player named to the ACSMA All-Defensive Team since Vernon Hamilton in 2006.

This marks the second straight year Clemson has had a second-team all-conference choice. Last year, K.C. Rivers was second team and Cliff Hammonds was named to the third team. Booker is also the fourth player under Head Coach Oliver Purnell to be named to an All-ACC team. Sharrod Ford was a third-team selection in 2005.

Rivers ranks second on the team in scoring this season at 14.3 points per game, including an average of 14.4 per game in the ACC regular season. Clemson's career leader in three-point shooting ranks first on the team with a 40 percent accuracy from the outside, including a 47-percent mark in ACC games. Rivers also ranks second on the team with 6.0 rebounds per game and is seventh in the league with 1.7 steals per game.

Tyler Hansbrough's impressive list of accolades continued to grow Monday when the North Carolina star became the first player in league history to be unanimously selected four times to the all-Atlantic Coast Conference team.

Tar Heels teammate Ty Lawson joined him on the first team, along with Florida State guard Toney Douglas, Duke swingman Gerald Henderson and Miami guard Jack McClinton in voting by 76 members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.

Hansbrough last year became the third player in league history to be unanimously named to the all-ACC team three times, joining North Carolina State's David Thompson (1973-75) and Duke's Art Heyman (1961-63), and was the first to do it in his first three years in the league.

Then, the 6-foot-9 big man went out and one-upped himself during his senior season.

He leads the league with a 21-point scoring average. The reigning national player of the year and leading scorer in school history enters this week's ACC tournament 52 points shy of J.J. Redick's 3-year-old league record of 2,769 career points.

McClinton, the only other repeat selection to the first team, is the ACC's leading 3-point shooter and has made 46 percent of his
attempts from beyond the arc. He ranks third in the league with a scoring average of 19.7 points.

Douglas was a near unanimous selection - he received 226 voting
points of a possible 228. He is scoring 20.8 points per game,
second in the ACC, is the league's leading scorer in conference
games, and he helped Florida State claim the No. 4 seed and an
opening-round bye in the league tournament.

Lawson leads the ACC with 6.5 assists per game and an
assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.3, and his scoring average of nearly
16 points ranks 12th in the conference. Henderson, Duke's leading
scorer, averages 16.6 points and scored at least 19 points in seven
of his final nine games.

The three all-ACC teams were once again dominated by balance:
Ten of the league's 12 teams placed at least one player into the 15
slots.

Wake Forest guard Jeff Teague was joined on the second team by
Clemson big man Trevor Booker, Boston College guard Tyrese Rice,
Duke forward Kyle Singler and Maryland guard Greivis Vasquez. The
third team was led by Wake Forest's James Johnson, Virginia Tech's
Malcolm Delaney and A.D. Vassallo, North Carolina's Danny Green and
Georgia Tech's Gani Lawal.

The league also announced its all-freshman and all-defensive
teams, and those teams were dominated by Florida State and Wake
Forest.

Demon Deacons forward Al-Farouq Aminu joined Virginia's Sylven
Landesberg as unanimous selections to the all-rookie team. They
were joined by Georgia Tech's Iman Shumpert, Florida State's
Solomon Alabi and North Carolina's Ed Davis.

Alabi and Douglas also made the all-defensive team, and were
joined by Booker, Green and Wake Forest guard L.D. Williams. Booker
and Douglas led the defensive nominees with 67 votes apiece.

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