No real surprises among the post-season awards handed out this week.  Tyler Hansbrough for POY? Check. Seth Greenberg for COY? Fans of Miami's Frank Haith, who took a team picked to finish 12th and steered it to a 5th-place finish, might have some objections, but Virginia Tech's 9-7 ACC finish seemed to clinch it for Greenberg, who won by two votes.

Sort of makes up for those five Tech losses by 3 points or less.

I find it a litlle puzzling that Virginia's Sean Singletary wasn't a unanimous first-team pick.  To me,  Hansbrough, Singletary and  Tyrese Rice were the first-team no-brainers.

Turning to the tournament, which is being held in Charlotte for the first time since 2002, at the arena Jermareo Davidson is making famous.

Can anyone other than Duke and North Carolina win this thing? You'd have a hard time making a case. No.3 seed Clemson never seems to stay long at this event; the No.4 seed Hokies are the youngest team in the conference.

No.5 Miami looks like a tough out, capable of getting hot from 3-point range. But an ACC title?

As for the rest of the field, Boston College and N.C. State have lost 14 straight between them. Maryland's in a tailspin. Virginia has been playing well lately, but would run into Duke in the second round.

 The most interesting game of the first round could be Georgia Tech-Virginia. Neither team is going anywhere in the post-season, but they played two taut, competitive games. Georgia Tech won in overtime at Virginia; the Cavaliers won by two at the Thriller Dome in a make-up of a game that was postponed because of a leaky roof.