Not surprisingly, Duke and UNC are out front.
When Jaron Blossomgame was chosen by the media to the 2016 All-ACC first team, it marked the second time in a three-year span a Clemson player was selected. K.J. McDaniels, Jr. was similarly honored in 2014.
Blossomgame is just the 12th Tiger picked in the 63 years the school has been a member of the ACC. That’s a piddling average of fewer than a pair of all-conference players per decade. Five of those dozen All-ACC performers were selected since 2000, a sign the program has upped its game either in bringing in talent or training those it recruits.