Trey Burke #1 in KenPom POY

Submitted by MH20 on

After Wednesday's games, Trey Burke took over the #1 spot on Ken Pomeroy's POY ranking system, leaping over Lousville's Russ Smith and Duke's Marshall Mason Plumlee.  Following another solid performance on Thursday, Trey has added to his lead.

 

EDIT:  Didn't realize the kPOY standings were paywalled, my apologies there.  Here is a quick snippet of the top five:

 

1 Trey Burke, Michigan 2.341
2 Russ Smith, Louisville 2.275
3 Mason Plumlee, Duke 2.112
4 Cody Zeller, Indiana 2.009
5 Patric Young, Florida 1.985

 

An explanation of the award can be found below.

 

Updated kPOY explanation

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Trey Burke
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Player of the year

Paps

January 25th, 2013 at 10:33 AM ^

Hope he wins the Wooden Award and gets All American! My dad said it best: "Trey Burke is like that high school girlfriend that is way out of your league. You know she's going to leave you, but you enjoy her while she lasts". I don't think Trey will be coming back, so lets win a Big Ten and National Championship while we have him!

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Darth Wolverine

January 25th, 2013 at 11:36 AM ^

M has to win it all this year. We have elite players and I am sure Burke, Hardaway, and Robinson are leaving after this season. I am also sure these players know that and hope they have a sense of urgency to win the title this year.

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MH20

January 25th, 2013 at 11:05 AM ^

I said Marshall and of course meant Mason, as has been pointed out by several posters.  My bad.

Secondly, my apologies about the kPOY standings being paywalled.  I didn't realize that.

The top five are:

  1. Trey Burke
  2. Russ Smith
  3. Mason Plumlee
  4. Cody Zeller
  5. Patric Young

 

I'll update the OP with this info as well.  My apologies.

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eschaton811ydau

January 25th, 2013 at 11:29 AM ^

Whats the deal with the Kenpom paywall? I know Brian and Ace liberally publish paywalled things from Kenpom.

Seems backwards to me. Mgoblog doesn't publish paywalled recruiting info, yet doesn't seem to respect the recruiting sites. Mgoblog has a ton of respect for Kenpom, but basically every paywalled piece of information that would be interesting to a Michigan basketball fan is published on the front page.

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