University of North Carolina Athletics
Haywood Named ACC Player of the Week
December 11, 2000 | Men's Basketball
Dec. 11, 2000
North Carolina's Brendan Haywood was tabbed as the ACC Player of the Week while Georgia Tech's Halston Lane was selected as the ACC Rookie of the Week in voting by a select panel of the Atlantic Coast Conference Sportswriters Association (ACSWA).
Haywood earned Player of the Week following his performances in two Tar Heel wins. Haywood, a 7-0, 268-pound senior from Greensboro, N.C., recorded the first triple-double in North Carolina history against Miami last Monday. Haywood scored on eight of nine field-goal attempts (.889) as he tallied 18 points, grabbed 14 boards and blocked a school-record 10 shots in a 67-45 win. Against Texas A&M, Haywood added 17 points, six rebounds and a block.
For the third straight week, a Georgia Tech player has been named Freshman of the Week as Halston Lane, a 6-4, 2-5-pound guard from Oak Ridge, Tenn., garnered the award this week. For the week, Lane averaged 14 points and 4.5 rebounds while shooting 56 percent (10-of-18) from the field, including 5-of-9 from three-point range. Lane scored a game-high 23 points to lead the Yellow Jackets to a 86-84 win over Kentucky. In just 17 minutes of play, Lane hit nine of 13 attempts from the field, including four of seven from three-point range. Earlier in the week, Lane tallied five points and six rebounds in 13 minutes in Georgia Tech's loss to Georgia.
