Men's Basketball team awards
Hunter & Eli corralled most of the awards.
April 20th, 2022 at 10:14 PM ^
2022 Michigan Men’s Basketball Awards:
• Bill Buntin Most Valuable Player: Hunter Dickinson
• Wayman Britt Outstanding Defensive Player: Eli Brooks
• Travis Conlan Sportsmanship Award: Adrien Nunez
• Rudy Tomjanovich Most Improved Player: Hunter Dickinson
• Sixth Man Award: Terrance Williams II
• Steve Grote Hustle Award: Jace Howard & Moussa Diabate
• Thad Garner Leadership Award: Eli Brooks
• Iron Man Award: Eli Brooks (35.9 mpg)
• Award for Outstanding Free Throw Shooting: Eli Brooks (87.7 percent; 71-for-81)
• Morgan/Bodnar Brothers Award for Academic Achievement: Frankie Collins
• Gary Grant Award for Most Assists: DeVante’ Jones (4.6 apg; 151 assists)
• Loy Vaught Rebounding Award: Hunter Dickinson (8.6 rpg)
April 20th, 2022 at 11:16 PM ^
Is it weird to have a single-team 6th man award?
Yes. Is there a "Starting Lineup Award" too?
As an erstwhile bench warmer and fellow sportsmanship award recipient, I'd like to congratulate Adrian Nunez on his season.
April 20th, 2022 at 10:37 PM ^
Congrats to all of the winners 🏆
Special kudos to Eli. A true Michigan Man. Best wishes Eli!!!!
Go Blue
April 20th, 2022 at 11:50 PM ^
Two players from the 1976 National Finalist team honored with named awards:
Wayman Britt
Steve Grote
April 21st, 2022 at 12:14 AM ^
I agree with everything, except the most improved award, which I think should've gone to Davonte Jones
During the season, it was Devante. From last year to this, Hunter developed a legit 3 point shot and a right handed post game. While his defense took a step back, he made significant offensive strides that were unfortunately mitigated by the lack of shooting around him. Last year he was an important piece that sort of vanished later in the season as teams figured him out, and we became more reliant on outside shooting (which sadly vanished against UCLA). This year, there were times where we had to force it in to Hunter because no one else could score, and he was forced to score over double teams. I think he deserves the recognition for all the effort he put in for the entire offseason to fix the holes in his game.
He went from 26 minutes per game to 32.3 MPG. I think that had a lot to do with his defensive step back. He was just playing too many minutes to go 100% on defense every possession. I think one of the reasons Coach Howard went to the full court press at times last season was to delay the opponent getting the ball into the front court thereby giving Hunter an extra 3-5 seconds to catch his breath.
If only we would have had a backup center to help ease that burden…. Oh wait, we did, he started at the 4.
Brooks really came into his own during his tenure at Michigan. His first couple seasons here there were fans calling Beilein an idiot for recruiting him and declaring he wasn't Big Ten material.
Congratulations Eli on proving the naysayers wrong and on your stellar Michigan career!