Preseason All-ACC Basketball Teams and Predictions

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Operation Basketball media tab Duke as pre-season favorite in ACC race, Maryland second … Duke’s Chris Duhon voted pre-season ACC Player of the Year while UNC’s Raymond Felton named pre-season ACC Rookie of the Year … two ACC teams - Duke (6th) and Maryland (15th) - earn recognition in pre-season coaches poll … North Carolina to open ACC's 50th season hosting Penn State on November 18 (7:30 p.m.) in the first round of the Pre-Season NIT.

2002-03 ACC Pre-Season Predictions 


1.      Duke (79)               852 


2.      Maryland (9)            686 


3.      NC State (4)            595 


4.      Georgia Tech (1)        548 


5.      Virginia                488 


6.      Wake Forest             380 


7.      North Carolina          348 


8.      Clemson                 168 


9.      Florida State           138 


(first place votes) 


2002-03 Pre-Season All-ACC 


First Team 


Travis Watson, Virginia         85 


Steve Blake, Maryland           83 


Chris Duhon, Duke               83 


Josh Howard, Wake Forest        78 


Julius Hodge, NC State          62 


Second Team 


Dahntay Jones, Duke             24 


Edward Scott, Clemson           12 


Tahj Holden, Maryland           5 


Marcus Melvin, NC State         5 


Raymond Felton, N. Carolina     5 


2002-03 Pre-Season ACC Player of the Year 


Chris Duhon, Duke       26 


Travis Watson, UVa      23 


Josh Howard, WF         20 


Steve Blake, Md.        9 


Julius Hodge, NCS       5 


Dahntay Jones, Duke     3 


Drew Nicholas, Md.      1 


Jawad Williams, UNC     1 


2002-03 Pre-Season ACC Rookie of the Year 


Raymond Felton, UNC     65 


Chris Bosh, GaT         10 


Rashad McCants, UNC     4 


Shavlik Randolph, Duke  4 


Eric Williams, WF       4 


J.J. Redick, Duke       2 


Jarrett Jack, GaT       1 

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