GREENSBORO -- Hundreds of coaches, players and media were all at the Grandover Resort for the annual Atlantic Coast Conference media day. It's a chance for the media to chat with all 12 ACC teams before the season starts. ACC officials also used the time to honor a friend and colleague.

During this particular “Operation Basketball”, ACC coaches and staff were remembering one of their own, Skip Prosser. “Skip was kind of a renaissance man. Anybody who knew him I think would describe him that way, a very bright individual and extremely well read individual, always a teacher first, that's how he looked at himself,” John Swofford, ACC Commissioner said.

The ACC will establish the Skip Prosser award to honor the conference's top student-athlete among the men's basketball players. An honor the conference commissioner says is appropriate. “We felt like that with his commitment to such a balanced academic athletic life, for his players and the students that he was around that naming the top scholar athlete, men's basketball player in the ACC in his honor was the way to go,” Swofford said.

Nominees must be in their third or fourth year and maintained at least a 3.0 grade average. The award is based 60 percent on academic achievement and 40 percent on athletic achievement.