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Player of the Year: Jimmer Fredette, BYU. The senior scoring machine is finishing the most impactful season by a player from outside the "big six" conferences since Jameer Nelson was running the show at Saint Joseph's in 2004.
Coach of the Year: Mike Brey, Notre Dame. The Minutes has been all over the board on this one and still thinks Purdue's Matt Painter would be a great choice. But after taking a look at the preseason rankings, it's time to award this to Brey. Fifty-one teams received votes in the ESPN/USA Today preseason Top 25. The Fighting Irish were not one of them. Today, they're ranked fourth.
Freshman of the Year: Jared Sullinger, Ohio State. Hard to believe the Buckeyes could lose the 2010 national player of the year and get better, but they have because of what Sullinger has delivered. With the 280-pounder distorting defenses in the middle, the Buckeyes are nearly a perfect offensive machine.
All-Americans: Fredette, Nolan Smith of Duke, JaJuan Johnson of Purdue, Sullinger, Derrick Williams of Arizona.
All-Minutes Team: subtitled Five Guys Who Just Know How to Play: David Lighty of Ohio State, Brad Wanamaker of Pittsburgh, Dogus Balbay of Texas, Mickey McConnell of Saint Mary's, Kendall Marshall of North Carolina.
Bust of the Year: Michigan State. It will take an even more incredible postseason run than either of the past two years for the Spartans to salvage this train wreck of a season. But at least they should get a chance to make that run, if they beat Iowa in the first round of the Big Ten tourney.
Play of the Year: The midcourt steal and running, leg-kicking 28-foot 3-pointer by Matt Dickey of North Carolina-Asheville to beat Coastal Carolina in February. The Bulldogs enjoyed that so much they turned around and beat the Chanticleers again for the Big South tourney title.
Technical foul of the Year: Louisville cheerleader Jordan Alcazar, whose intrusion onto the court to grab the ball and throw it in the air with less than a second left in the Cardinals' victory over Pittsburgh gave the Panthers a final chance to salvage the game. In the long and useless history of male cheerleaders, this was a new low.
plus there's more..including this one I find funny...
Coach most likely to go John Brady on the refs or media: Tom Crean, Indiana. It's been a tough month for the Hoosiers, who have lost eight straight. Even though his team is in last place, Crean will not want to disappoint the home-state fans with a first-round exit.
(Brady cost his team a game recently with an inopportune "T" - link)
Coach of the Year: Mike Brey, Notre Dame. The Minutes has been all over the board on this one and still thinks Purdue's Matt Painter would be a great choice. But after taking a look at the preseason rankings, it's time to award this to Brey. Fifty-one teams received votes in the ESPN/USA Today preseason Top 25. The Fighting Irish were not one of them. Today, they're ranked fourth.
Freshman of the Year: Jared Sullinger, Ohio State. Hard to believe the Buckeyes could lose the 2010 national player of the year and get better, but they have because of what Sullinger has delivered. With the 280-pounder distorting defenses in the middle, the Buckeyes are nearly a perfect offensive machine.
All-Americans: Fredette, Nolan Smith of Duke, JaJuan Johnson of Purdue, Sullinger, Derrick Williams of Arizona.
All-Minutes Team: subtitled Five Guys Who Just Know How to Play: David Lighty of Ohio State, Brad Wanamaker of Pittsburgh, Dogus Balbay of Texas, Mickey McConnell of Saint Mary's, Kendall Marshall of North Carolina.
Bust of the Year: Michigan State. It will take an even more incredible postseason run than either of the past two years for the Spartans to salvage this train wreck of a season. But at least they should get a chance to make that run, if they beat Iowa in the first round of the Big Ten tourney.
Play of the Year: The midcourt steal and running, leg-kicking 28-foot 3-pointer by Matt Dickey of North Carolina-Asheville to beat Coastal Carolina in February. The Bulldogs enjoyed that so much they turned around and beat the Chanticleers again for the Big South tourney title.
Technical foul of the Year: Louisville cheerleader Jordan Alcazar, whose intrusion onto the court to grab the ball and throw it in the air with less than a second left in the Cardinals' victory over Pittsburgh gave the Panthers a final chance to salvage the game. In the long and useless history of male cheerleaders, this was a new low.
plus there's more..including this one I find funny...
Coach most likely to go John Brady on the refs or media: Tom Crean, Indiana. It's been a tough month for the Hoosiers, who have lost eight straight. Even though his team is in last place, Crean will not want to disappoint the home-state fans with a first-round exit.
(Brady cost his team a game recently with an inopportune "T" - link)
