Congrats To Marcus On Being Named To The First Team Academic All-America

[jah420]

Congrats young man! Link below also includes video of Roy announcing it to the guys today...really cool!

http://www.tarheelblog.com/2016/3/3/11154072/marcus-paige-named-1st-team-academic-all-american

"Paige is the first Tar Heel to ever earn Academic All-America honors in three seasons. Tyler Zeller was a first-team selection in 2011 and 2012 and Tommy LaGarde was a first-team choice in 1976 and a second-teamer in 1975. Paige is just the third men’s basketball player in ACC history to be a three-time Academic All-America (Maryland’s Tom McMillen and Duke’s Mike Gminski were three-time first-teams selections in 1972-74 and 1978-80, respectively)."

 

[jah420]

Follow up question, does making 1st Team Academic All America qualify a player at UNC to get their jersey honored in the rafters?

 

[Ozheelfan]

Good timing for this article: http://www.todaysu.com/acc-today/no...st-important-unc-players-of-roy-williams-era/

And this quote from the article:
"At a time when the program has needed it, Paige has been the perfect representative of UNC basketball. He is just the third player in program history to earn Academic All-America honors in back-to-back seasons, and on Tuesday, he was named winner of the Skip Prosser Award — presented annually to the ACC’s top scholar-athlete in men’s basketball — for the second straight year."

 

[Archer2]

Congratulations, Marcus. You've done us proud.

 

[toophly1124]

Excellent job Marcus ..you're one of my favorite Heels of all time

 

[BillyL]

Congratulations, Mr. Paige . . !

 

[heelz2345]

Follow up question, does making 1st Team Academic All America qualify a player at UNC to get their jersey honored in the rafters?

No it doesn't, but Marcus was a 2nd team All-America his sophomore year, which does qualify, so he'll be up there. Regardless, big congrats to Marcus for this honor. We are gonna miss this kid, he's been something else on and off the court for 4 years.

 

[Bubspub88]

Academic AA and a smokin hot girl friend. No wonder his game has been slipping. Get your priorities in order man.

 

[UNC Blue Hup]

The perfect Tar Heel! Especially with all this NCAA garbage! Proud Marcus chose UNC!

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

Great Tar Heel representative!

 

[TarHeelTroy]

Stellar accomplishment! Well done Marcus!

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Outstanding. Speaking as a long-time Tar Heel, Marcus makes me proud to be a fan.

I also noticed this at the end of the article:

Paige is the ninth Tar Heel to earn first-team Academic All-America honors joining
Billy Cunningham (1965)
Charles Scott (1970)
Steve Previs (1972)
Dennis Wuycik (1972)
LaGarde (1976)
Steve Hale (1986)
Eric Montross (1994)
Zeller (2011, 2012)

That would make a pretty darn good team. A bit front line heavy.

 

[keysersosay#1]

Well done Marcus!!!! You have made all of us proud

Thanks for all your hard work!!!