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 [1] 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 [2] 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.