Duke, North Carolina, N.C. State and Wake Forest will join Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Virginia and Virginia Tech in NCAA regional play May 15-17.

The NCAA championship, hosted by Purdue, will be played May 28-31 at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex Kampen Course in West Lafayette, Ind.

Also Monday, the ACC announced its individual honors for the season and former Triangle high school stars Webb Simpson of Wake Forest and Kevin O'Connell of North Carolina took the two top awards.

Simpson, a senior who attended Broughton, was selected the league player of the year, and O'Connell, from Green Hope, won the top freshman distinction. The coach of the year pick was Florida State's Trey Jones, whose team won the conference championship tournament last month. The league's coaches voted on the awards.

Joining Simpson and O'Connell on the 12-player all-league team was Georgia Tech's Chesson Hadley, a 6-foot-4, 153-pound sophomore from North Raleigh Christian Academy, who finished in a tie for fourth place in the 2007 NCAA tournament. Also selected were Duke veterans Clark Klaasen and Michael Schachner, and N.C. State freshman Matt Hill.

Carolina's O'Connell will be part of a five-player NCAA team that's solidly anchored by Triangle talent. He'll be joined by Chapel Hill's Reed Darsie (Durham Jordan) and Raleigh's Henry Zaytoun III (Ravenscroft) along with Kinston's Barden Berry (Parrott Academy) and Chase MacFarland of Savannah, Ga., in ninth-year coach John Inman's NCAA contingent. Only Berry and Darsie are seniors. Zaytoun, like O'Connell, is a freshman.

"Both of those guys have had very solid first seasons, although its not surprising," Inman said. "We knew they were capable of big things when they first got here. They're excited that we've reached this stage, but so are the guys who've been around here a little longer. Making it to this stage is what everyone's worked for all along. Now, it's time to see if we can play well and move on."

In each of three NCAA regionals, 27 teams will compete for 10 berths to the title tournament at Purdue.

At the 2007 NCAA championship, which was held in Williamsburg, Va., Stanford took the team title by 12 strokes over No. 2 Georgia.

Southern California's Jamie Lovemark won the individual title by two strokes over Clemson's Kyle Stanley, now a sophomore and also a member of the 2008 all-ACC team.