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2007–08 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season

Field	Value
title	2007–08 Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Season
color	#072E67
color text	#EFE3BB
league	NCAA Division I
sport	Basketball
logo_size	125px
no_of_teams	12
TV	Raycom, ESPN
season	Regular Season
season_champs	North Carolina (14–2)
season_champ_name	First place
second_place	Duke (13–3)
MVP	Tyler Hansbrough – UNC
MVP_link	ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year
finals	Tournament
finals_link	2008 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
finals_champ	North Carolina (17th)
finals_runner-up	Clemson
finals_MVP	Tyler Hansbrough
finals_MVP_link	Most Valuable Player
seasonslistnames	Basketball
prevseason_year	2006–07
nextseason_year	2008–09

| conf1_runner-up = | conf2_runner-up = | finals_runner-up = Clemson

The 2007–08 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball season was the 55th season for the league. The North Carolina Tar Heels won both the regular-season and conference titles. The ACC sent four teams to the NCAA tournament: North Carolina, Duke, Clemson and Miami.

Final standings

Team	ACC Regular Season	ACC %	ACC Home	ACC Road	All Games	All Games %	All Home	All Road	All Neutral
North Carolina	14–2	.875	6–2	8–0	35–2	.946	14–2	13–0	9–1
Duke	13–3	.813	7–1	6–2	28–6	.824	15–1	8–2	5–3
Clemson	10–6	.625	7–1	3–5	24–10	.706	14–2	6–5	4–3
Virginia Tech	9–7	.563	6–2	3–5	21–14	.600	14–3	4–8	3–3
Miami	8–8	.500	6–2	2–6	23–11	.676	14–2	4–6	5–3
Maryland	8–8	.500	4–4	4–4	19–15	.559	13–6	6–5	0–4
Georgia Tech	7–9	.438	3–5	4–4	15–17	.469	6–7	6–8	3–2
Wake Forest	7–9	.438	6–2	1–7	17–13	.567	15–2	2–10	0–1
Florida State	7–9	.438	4–4	3–5	19–15	.559	13–5	4–7	2–3
Virginia	5–11	.313	3–5	2–6	17–16	.515	13–7	4–7	0–2
Boston College	4–12	.250	3–5	1–7	14–17	.452	11–8	2–7	1–2
North Carolina State	4–12	.250	3–5	1–7	15–16	.484	10–6	2–9	3–0

Statistical leaders

Player	School	PPG	School	RPG	Player	APG	Player	School
Tyler Hansbrough	UNC	22.6	Tyler Hansbrough	UNC	10.2	Greivis Vásquez	MD	6.8
Tyrese Rice	BC	21.0	J. J. Hickson	NCSU	8.5	Sean Singletary	UVA	6.1
Sean Singletary	UVA	19.8	James Johnson	WF	8.1	Ty Lawson	UNC	5.2
Jack McClinton	Mia.	17.7	James Gist	MD	7.9	Tyrese Rice	BC	5.0
Greivis Vásquez	MD	17.0	Jeff Allen	VT	7.6	Ishmael Smith	WF	4.7

Player	School	BPG	School	FG%	Player	3FG%	Player	School
Tyrelle Blair	BC	3.4	J. J. Hickson	NCSU	59.1	Anthony Morrow	GT	44.8
James Gist	MD	2.3	Tyler Hansbrough	UNC	54.0	Jack McClinton	Mia.	42.7
Bambale Osby	MD	2.1	James Gist	MD	49.6	Terrence Oglesby	Clem.	40.3
Trevor Booker	Clem.	1.9	DeMarcus Nelson	Duke	49.0
Chas McFarland	WF	1.6	James Johnson	WF	48.7

Players of the week

Throughout the conference season, the ACC offices name a player and rookie of the week. North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough broke the ACC single-season record for player of the week honors during the 2007–08 season with eight awards. The record had previously been seven, held by JJ Redick and Antawn Jamison. The MVP of the ACC tournament is the automatic winner of the final ACC player of the week of each season.

Week	Player of the week	Rookie of the week
11/12/07	Anthony Morrow, GT	Jeff Allen, VT
11/19/07	Sean Singletary, UVA	J. J. Hickson, NCSU
11/26/07	Tyler Hansbrough, UNC	Kyle Singler, Duke
12/3/07	K. C. Rivers, Clem.	Kyle Singler, Duke
Wayne Ellington, UNC
12/10/07	Tyler Hansbrough, UNC	Corey Raji, BC
12/17/07	Jack McClinton, Mia.	Jeff Teague, WF
12/24/07	Tyler Hansbrough, UNC	Terrence Oglesby, Clem.
12/31/07	Tyler Hansbrough, UNC	J. J. Hickson, NCSU
Toney Douglas, FSU
1/7/08	Wayne Ellington, UNC	Kyle Singler, Duke
1/14/08	Trevor Booker, Clem.	Jeff Allen, VT
1/21/08	James Gist, MD	James Johnson, WF
1/28/08	Matt Causey, GT	J. J. Hickson, NCSU
DeMarcus Nelson, Duke
2/4/08	Tyler Hansbrough, UNC	Jeff Teague, WF
2/11/08	Tyler Hansbrough, UNC	Kyle Singler, Duke
2/18/08	Greivis Vásquez, MD	Jeff Teague, WF
Tyrese Rice, BC
2/25/08	Tyler Hansbrough, UNC	Maurice Miller, GT
3/3/08	Tyrese Rice, BC	Terrence Oglesby, Clem.
3/10/08	Sean Singletary, UVA	Jeff Teague, WF
3/17/08	Tyler Hansbrough, UNC	None Selected

Conference honors

ACC Conference awards were handed out at the conclusion of the regular season. Tyler Hansbrough was the unanimous choice for ACC player of the year, while Virginia Tech's Seth Greenberg won conference Coach of the Year honors for guiding the Hokies to a fourth-place finish after being picked tenth in the preseason. Duke swept the remaining individual honors as Kyle Singler and DeMarcus Nelson won Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year respectively.

Player of the year

Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina

Rookie of the year

Kyle Singler, Duke

Coach of the year

Seth Greenberg, Virginia Tech

Defensive player of the year

DeMarcus Nelson, Duke

All-Atlantic Coast Conference

First Team

Tyler Hansbrough, Jr., North Carolina
Tyrese Rice, Jr., Boston College
Sean Singletary, Sr., Virginia
DeMarcus Nelson, Sr., Duke
Jack McClinton, Jr., Miami

Second Team

Greivis Vásquez, So., Maryland
James Gist, Sr., Maryland
Wayne Ellington, So., North Carolina
A. D. Vassallo, Jr., Virginia Tech
K. C. Rivers, Jr., Clemson

Third Team

Kyle Singler, Fr., Duke
Cliff Hammonds, Sr., Clemson
Toney Douglas, Jr., Florida State
James Johnson, Fr., Wake Forest
Greg Paulus, Jr., Duke

Honorable Mention: Ty Lawson, So., UNC; J. J. Hickson, Fr., NCSU; Deron Washington, Sr., VT; Anthony Morrow, Sr., GT

All-ACC freshman team

Kyle Singler, Duke
James Johnson, Wake Forest
J. J. Hickson, NC State
Jeff Allen, Virginia Tech
Jeff Teague, Wake Forest

Honorable Mention: Terrence Oglesby, Clemson

All-ACC Defensive team

DeMarcus Nelson, Sr., Duke
Toney Douglas, Jr., Florida State
Tyrelle Blair, Sr., Boston College
Marcus Ginyard, Jr., North Carolina
James Gist, Sr., Maryland

Honorable Mention: Cliff Hammonds, Sr., Clemson; D'Andre Bell, Jr., GT; Tyler Hansbrough, Jr., UNC; Jeff Allen, Fr., VT; Deron Washington, Sr., VT; James Mays, Sr., Clemson

ACC tournament

See 2008 ACC men's basketball tournament

Postseason

NCAA tournament

Main article: 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

ACC Record: 6–4

1 North Carolina (4–1) – Final Four

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