ACC scoring leader from Maryland left off first-team
Despite leading the ACC in scoring, Maryland sophomore Terrell Stoglin (21.2 ppg) was left off the all-conference first team. It is the fifth time in league history that the conference scoring leader failed to make the first team. Stoglin did make the second team.
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It’s interesting to note that all five of the ACC scoring leaders who have failed to make the first team are from outside of North Carolina. Many have long held that ACC teams from outside the state get short shrift.
The others snubbed were Clemson’s Butch Zatezalo (1968, 1969), Georgia Tech’s Mark Price (1983), and Clemson’s Terrell McIntyre (1999). All made the second team in those seasons.
Of the 37 ACC scoring leaders from schools in North Carolina, all have made the first team and 25 have been unanimous first-team choices (67.3 percent). Of the 22 ACC scoring leaders from outside the state, only five have been unanimous first-team choices (22.7 percent).
Other Maryland ACC scoring leaders who came up short of unanimous selection were Albert King (1980), Len Bias (1985), Walt Williams (1992), and Joe Smith (1995). Bias was voted unanimously the second year (1986) that he led the ACC in scoring.
On his radio show on Monday night, Maryland coach Mark Turgeon said he thought Stoglin should have made the first team, but didn’t object strenuously.
“Terrell was the leading scorer in the league, had a tremendous year. But it shows you that winning is important, and being a complete player,” Turgeon said. “This will be a teaching moment for us with Terrell that we gotta win more and he’s gotta do more than score, and then he’ll be a first-teamer. I still think he deserved it.”
Players who made the All-ACC first team were Duke’s Austin Rivers (164 votes), Virginia’s Mike Scott (184), and North Carolina’s Tyler Zeller (186), John Henson (170), and Harrison Barnes (154).
Players on the second team were North Carolina’s Kendall Marshall (151), Stoglin (131), Florida State’s Michael Snaer (127), North Carolina State’s C.J. Leslie (99), and Virginia Tech’s Erick Green (70).
