The pre-eminent tend was named - almost unanimously - to the 2009 All-ACC principal span on Monday, garnering 226 of a practical 228 votes. He became just the fourth Seminole (Bob Sura, Tim Pickett and Al Thornton) to be chosen to the renowned five-man squad. "I didn't certain that," Douglas laughed when told he was only the fourth FSU better to be so honored. "It's a great feeling.
" Especially making allowance for the competition. The ACC is always one of the leading conferences in the United States and is almost always guard-dominated. This opportunity was no different.
Four of the first-team members were backcourt players (Douglas, Miami's Jack McClinton, North Carolina's Ty Lawson and Duke's Gerald Henderson joined unanimous choosing Tyler Hansbrough of North Carolina) and energetic guards groove on Wake Forest's Jeff Teague, Maryland's Greivis Vasquez and Boston College's Tyrese Rice were relegated to half a mo team. "Yeah, that's crazy," Douglas said. "This is a screw league. You have to amusement dark in and sundown out in this league.
"And I knew coming into the time that I wanted to be one of the pinnacle guards in the collaborate and one of the head ones in the country." Well, he certainly took control of that with a periodic occasion that commonplace him mediocre an ACC-best 23.1 points per forum game. He was the Seminoles' unrivalled scorer in every band meeting and he was named to the All-ACC defensive tandem as well. In best FSU (23-8, 10-6 in the ACC) to its best mellow in more than 15 years, Douglas is also one of the matchless candidates for ACC Player of the Year, which will be announced on Tuesday afternoon along with Defensive Player of the Year and Coach of the Year.
"This is the best year of my college career," Douglas said. "I will always memorialize my ranking year and the express teammates that I have. But this isn't the end. It's only the beginning. We still have a lot of slave to do.
" (2 of 2) Douglas wasn't the only Seminole to be honored on Monday either.
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