Hansbrough selected player of the year

Yes! Hansbrough smokes Beasley in the voting!

Yahoo News wrote:

Hansbrough selected player of the year

By JIM O'CONNELL, AP Basketball Writer
Sat Apr 5, 8:22 AM ET



SAN ANTONIO - Tyler Hansbrough, who topped the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring and rebounding and led North Carolina to the Final Four, was selected The Associated Press college basketball player of the year Friday.

The 6-foot-9 junior forward averaged 22.8 points, the highest mark by a North Carolina player since 1970, and 10.3 rebounds for the Tar Heels (36-2), who were ranked No. 1 for all but six weeks this season and were the overall top seed for the NCAA tournament.

Hansbrough was presented the award the day before the Tar Heels play Kansas in the second game of the Final Four.

He received 56 votes from the 72-member national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25. Freshman Michael Beasley of Kansas State had 15 votes and junior guard Chris Douglas-Roberts of Memphis got one in the voting conducted before the NCAA tournament.

And he shouldnt have, because Beasley is the better all around player.

Hansbrough sure looked pretty distraught tonight.

luv2cook wrote:

And he shouldnt have, because Beasley is the better all around player.

However, that's not the criteria for the award. Micael Jordan never won Player of the Year, and few would argue his greatness. Christian Laetner did win Player of the Year, and few would dispute the fact that he sucks.