Trey Burke Wins Naismith Award and NABC D1 POY Award
POY award #5 and it's a big one—Naismith Award for Trey Burke! Congrats!
Congratulations Trey Burke! @trey_burke3 is your 2013 Naismith Trophy winner presented by @att!! twitter.com/NaismithAwards…
— Naismith Awards (@NaismithAwards) April 7, 2013
EDIT: Make that six: Burke has also won the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division 1 Player of the Year award.
Michigan's press release on these awards points that Burke is the first Wolverine in program history to win either honor.
I believe the only major POY award yet to be awarded is the Adolph Rupp Trophy.
To recap, Burke has won the Oscar Robertson, Wooden, and Naismith awards, plus the AP, NABC, and SI player of the year awards.
What???? I thought for sure it would be Craft.
"Duh", said everybody, everywhere
Congrats Trey. Only one win away from the ultimate prize; the last peice of the college resume.
I don't know if this deserves its own thread, but check out this awesome picture of Burke and Desmond Howard.
Now let's add National Champion to your resume! Go Blue!
that's the one thing missing. Only for about 24 more hours though
You would almost hate to say that congratulating someone on another major award is routine, but in the case of Trey Burke and the incredible season he has had in concert with the run this team is having, it's an excellent routine. Congratulations to Trey on yet another honor!
in order to make it a truly aMAZEing season.....congrats Trey and GO BLUE!
Its so cool to see our football legends like Desmond, Charles, and Denard embrace our basketball team. It helps both programs to have the other one kick ass on a national stage.
Is this the last one? Why are there so many different POY awards
One more still to be announced—the Adolph Rupp Trophy.
Good lord, he is going to need a really big trophy case...
Congrats, Trey
I don't think he's going to have any trouble affording one.
Jersey is going to be retired. MORE hardware than Cazzie Russell.
Your argument is invalid. The only reason why Burke has won more awards than Cazzie Russell is because most of these awards didn't exist in Russell's day. Russell won every POY award given out in 1966. According to the NCAA Award Winners publication, there were only four awarded that year, and Russell swept them: AP, USBWA (now called the Oscar Robertson Trophy), Sporting News, and UPI (now defunct).
All of the following were created after Russell's time at Michigan: Wooden, Naismith, Adolph Rupp, NABC, and Basketball Times. So he obviously had no chance to win them.
Sporting News, for the record, gave its POY award to Victor Oladipo, while Otto Porter was Basketball Times' pick.
Never. They never had a Naismith winner.
What a year for Trey and UM!
Kind of wish they did this after the season was over.
HE IS A MICHIGAN MAN
Congrats. The most deserving player by a mile.
Justice is served. Looking back I guess Oladipo was never really a threat! Congrats to Trey Burke a true Michigan Legend!