North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough has been selected as the winner of the Commonwealth Athletic Club of Kentucky's 2008 Adolph Rupp Award for Player of the Year. Club spokesman Gerry Calvert, a former player for Rupp at Kentucky, said "Anybody who knew Coach Rupp well would tell you that Tyler is the kind of player he would have loved to coach."

Hansbrough is also one of four finalists for the 2008 Naismith Men's College Player of the Year Award.