ESPN article: Burke first team All-BIG, Zeller frosh of year
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/7643832/best-wors…
Article talks about season awards in all of college basketball. Trey Burke first team All Big Ten, THJ second team. Crean gets COY, Zeller FOY in the Big Ten.
I'm personally more upset about Crean getting COY over Beilien. Thoughts?
is ESPN is always wrong
I can't fault them for giving Crean COY. Indiana came a lot further over the past year than we have and they are also historically a bigger basketball school. Bringing Indiana back the way he has this year and turning Assembly Hall into Assembly Hall again has been impressive. As exciting as our home wins over OSU and MSU were, watching that Indiana-Kentucky game was on a whole nother level.
I'm more upset about Zeller getting freshman of the year and Burke not getting mention under clutch players. The guy closed out how many games for us this year?
What does being a historically bigger basketball school matter? Shouldn't that make it easier, if anything, to turn Indiana around?
Crean COY? Why? Belein is more deserving than that guy.
3 wins over top 5 teams. Only team to beat Kentucky. Big turn-around (with better players) of a storied program. I think Belein's feat of winning the Big Ten is more impressive, given the level of talent on the team, but Crean's done a very nice coaching job this year, and his team won arguably the game of the year in college bball, giving him a lot of face time.
Maybe they think Crean gets COY for being the only coach/team to beat #1 Kentucky or for taking over a disaster of a team or for being a Harbough.
No one has won yet. This is just one ESPN writer's opinion. The awards will be announced tomorrow:
Dave Revsine and Jim Jackson will reveal the All-Big Ten teams and individual awards at Monday, March 5 at 7pm ET on BTN.
I think it's a little too severe to say he blew a few years. He walked into a team with 2 (maybe) scholarship players after Sampson. Tough spot.
Coach of the year chase was down to Crean and Izzo. could have changed from a few weeks ago though
Why would Izzo even be in the talks? State has good players, but they didn't do anything surprising.
To make the case for Izzo: Lost 90% of scoring from 2011 in Summers and Lucas. This year was supposed to be more of a rebuilding year. Nobody was expecting the leap that Green made.
I'm assuming you made the same case for Beilein last year, since you could throw Harris/Sims/Morris in replacement of Summers/Lucas/Green and make the same argument you just made?
Summers and Lucas were cancers to that team. They were better off without them.
top 5 nationally after having a .500 season the year before, and not ranked. Michigan or Indiana never cracked the top 10 if im correct
I disagree. You could consider State's season a bigger surprise than ours since they were unranked in both preseason polls. Izzo definitely deserves COY consideration.
is based on the fact that they have improved so much from last year. But, MSU was supposed to be a Final Four team last year and had a hugely disappointing season; are we really going to reward Izzo for rebounding from a year in which his team was the most underachieving team in the Big Ten?
Since we're apparently going purely by results vs. expectations, I'll grant Izzo Coach of the Year this year if we're willing to retroactively give him Worst Coach of the Year last year.
Burke should win FOY
Way to go Crean you won at home.
Coach Beilein deserves COY award more than Tom Crean. Indiana did not win the Big Ten Title. Michigan never lost 2 consecutive games this season, which shows how this team does not dwell on losses. Coach Beilein also helped make Trey Burke a star.
I know these aren't the actual awards. One person is obviously just giving their opinion.
Can we have co-coach of the year and co-freshman of the year?
Save the vitrol for tomorrow nite when they're announced on BTN!
If Beilein can't win it in a year he takes a team without a single top 25 recruiting class (by Rivals) on the roster to conference co-champs, I don't know when he'd ever win it. It has to be considered a better coaching job than Matta or Izzo, and with Crean it feels more like "about time you did something with the talent you've been recruiting" more so than "wow, great job."
I feel like Tim Frazier should at least be some sort of All-Big Ten.
He should probably take Jordan Taylor's place. Taylor's fallen off significantly since last season. His scoring average is down 4 and he's barely shooting 40%. While Taylor's stats are depressed because Wisconsin plays so slow and he gets asked to take most of the late clock shots, Frazier plays substantially the same role for PSU (which doesn't exactly play fast) and is outscoring Taylor by 4 ppg, and averaging 1 more rebound and 2 more assists.
The other guy that deserves first team consideration is Shurna, who's leading the league in scoring and 3 pointers made and is second in blocks, but I don't know if there's a set number of guards they have to put on the first team. If so, Shurna should probably make it over Zeller
I don't mind Crean getting Coach of the Year. You have to respect what he has done this year at IU. Although i think that what burke has done as a PG in the BIG should trump what Zeller has done as a big man. It's a much harder transition from high school to college as a PG than as a center. Burke has single-handidly taken michigan to the next level with his play. We all know the importance of a solid PG in Beilein's offense, that alone should win him the award.
wouldn't the winner of the "Draymon Green Handyman of the Year" award go to Draymon Green? Strange.