INDIANAPOLIS - J-J Redick beat out Division One scoring champion Adam Morrison in the balloting for the Associated Press national player of the year.<br>
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Duke's senior guard, who had the country's second-highest scoring output, received 43 votes from the 72-member panel that selects the weekly Top 25, with Gonzaga's Morrison picking up the other 29 votes.<br>
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Redick is the record sixth Duke player to win the award, with five winners coming since 1992. The award was first presented in 1961.<br>
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Redick is a repeat first-team All-American who put the finishing touches on a career that allowed him to to leave the college game as the Atlantic Coast Conference's all-time leading scorer and Division One's top three-point shooter.<br>
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Redick averaged 26-point-eight points this season while shooting 47 percent from the field, 42 percent from three-point range and 85 percent from the free throw line.<br>
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He finished his career with two-thousand-769 points and a record 457 three-pointers.<br>
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