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Coby White
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White Wins Fifth ACC Freshman Of The Week Award
March 11, 2019 | Men's Basketball
The top two seeds in the upcoming New York Life Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament landed the final two weekly honors of the 2018-19 basketball season, as Virginia junior Ty Jerome was named the ACC Player of the Week and North Carolina's Coby White earned his second consecutive Freshman of the Week accolade.
ACC weekly honors are determined by a vote of a 15-member media panel and are announced on Mondays throughout the regular season. The ACC Player of the Week selection is Jerome's first of the season. White was voted Freshman of the Week for the fifth time, which ties ACC Player and Freshman of the Year Zion Williamson of Duke for the most Freshman of the Week awards this season.
Jerome averaged 20 points, 10 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals as No. 2 Virginia (28-2, 16-2 ACC) won a share of the ACC regular-season title with wins at Syracuse (79-53) and Louisville (73-68).
White scored a team-high 21 points and had three assists, a season-high three blocks and no turnovers in UNC's 79-70 win over fourth-ranked Duke to clinch a share of the ACC regular-season title. He scored 14 second-half points, including nine in a row at one point and a dozen in a four-minute span that helped the Tar Heels build a 10-point lead. White made four three-pointers (10th time this year with four or more) and broke the UNC freshman record for threes in a season (75). It was the 11th time he led UNC in scoring and was his eighth 20-point game, seven in ACC play. It was the first time he did not commit a turnover.
White also had 11 points, three assists and only one turnover in UNC's 79-66 win at Boston College. The Goldsboro native committed one turnover running the point in a combined 67 minutes last week.
ACC weekly honors are determined by a vote of a 15-member media panel and are announced on Mondays throughout the regular season. The ACC Player of the Week selection is Jerome's first of the season. White was voted Freshman of the Week for the fifth time, which ties ACC Player and Freshman of the Year Zion Williamson of Duke for the most Freshman of the Week awards this season.
Jerome averaged 20 points, 10 assists, 3.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals as No. 2 Virginia (28-2, 16-2 ACC) won a share of the ACC regular-season title with wins at Syracuse (79-53) and Louisville (73-68).
White scored a team-high 21 points and had three assists, a season-high three blocks and no turnovers in UNC's 79-70 win over fourth-ranked Duke to clinch a share of the ACC regular-season title. He scored 14 second-half points, including nine in a row at one point and a dozen in a four-minute span that helped the Tar Heels build a 10-point lead. White made four three-pointers (10th time this year with four or more) and broke the UNC freshman record for threes in a season (75). It was the 11th time he led UNC in scoring and was his eighth 20-point game, seven in ACC play. It was the first time he did not commit a turnover.
White also had 11 points, three assists and only one turnover in UNC's 79-66 win at Boston College. The Goldsboro native committed one turnover running the point in a combined 67 minutes last week.
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