CHAPEL HILL—University of North Carolina senior guard Marcus Paige is a first-team Academic All-America as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
The senior from Marion, Iowa, is a double major in media and journalism/history. He is a two-time recipient of the Skip Prosser Award as the Atlantic Coast Conference’s top scholar-athlete for men’s basketball, and previously was a second-team Academic America in both 2014 and 2015.
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.