Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 5, 1991 TAG: 9103050083
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RALEIGH, N.C. LENGTH: Medium
Bryant Stith of Virginia also was named first team with 151 points.
Anderson, a 6-foot-2 sophomore who took on more of a leadership role for coach Bobby Cremins' team this season, captured first-team votes on all 93 ballots cast by members of the Atlantic Coast Sports Writers Association for 186 points. He is a first-team selection for the second consecutive season.
Anderson is second in the league in scoring at 26.1 points per game, and is a top-10 performer in assists, steals and 3-pointers per game.
One ballot shy of unanimous selection to the first team were Christian Laettner of Duke (185 points) and Rodney Monroe of North Carolina State (185). Completing the first team was Rick Fox of North Carolina (141).
Stith was chosen to the first team last year, while Laettner and Monroe moved up from the second team. Fox was a third-team choice last season.
Laettner, a 6-11 junior, is fourth in the ACC in scoring at 19.5 points per game and helped guide the Blue Devils to the league's regular-season title. He's also hitting 57 percent of his field-goal attempts and 78.2 percent of his free throws.
Monroe will leave N.C. State as the school's all-time leading scorer with 2,464 points, placing him third on the career ACC list behind Johnny Dawkins of Duke and Dickie Hemric of Wake Forest. He's the league's leading scorer this season at 27.7 points per game. An 86.4 percent free-throw shooter, Monroe is also hitting better than 45 percent of his 3-point shots. The the 6-3 senior did it while playing about 40 minutes an game for a Wolfpack team lacking depth to give him chances to rest.
Stith, 6-5, is third behind Anderson and Monroe in scoring, averaging 20.2 points per game. He's hitting 79.1 percent of his free throws, and highlighted his season by single-handedly leading the Cavaliers to victory in the closing minutes against Notre Dame.
"Besides being our scoring leader, I think he's done an outstanding job defensively and has had to shoulder a pretty difficult burden because I think everybody knows coming in that Bryant is our main man and he's the one we're going to have to go to," Virginia first-year coach Jeff Jones said.
Despite struggling with his field-goal percentage this season, the 6-7 Fox moved up to seventh in the league in scoring at 17.4 points per game to lead the Tar Heels.
Picked to the second team were Monroe's backcourt mate, Chris Corchiani (131), Dale Davis of Clemson (113), freshman Rodney Rogers of Wake Forest (69), Tom Gugliotta of N.C. State (54) and Malcolm Mackey of Georgia Tech (44).
Corchiani became the first player in NCAA history to reach 1,000 assists. He, too, did most of his work without the benefit of prolonged rest for first-year coach Les Robinson.
The third-team selections were John Crotty of Virginia (33), Pete Chilcutt of North Carolina (25), Matt Roe of Maryland (14) and Bobby Hurley (17) and Thomas Hill (13) of Duke.
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