After winning the Big Ten Player of the Week award a record seven different times this season, you'd figure it was a no-brainer that Evan Turner would be named the conference's Player of the Year as well. And you'd be right.
Also named to the league's all-First Team, The Villain was a unanimous selection by the media for PoY honors, becoming the first Buckeye since Dials in '06 to win the award, but was snubbed a bit by the coaches as one of them decided to vote in a different direction for the award. Can we get our own Tebow-style interrogations at next fall's media days, please?
David Lighty and William Buford were named to the 3rd team while Jon Diebler earned an honorable mention nod from the media while Buford was named to the coaches' 3rd team with Lighty and Diebler picking up honorable mentions on that side. Also honored was Dallas Lauderdale, named to the league's All-Defensive team, and Mark Titus, named the Big Ten's top blogger.
Last but not least, Thad Matta picked up his third Big Ten Coach of the Year award in six seasons. You really can't say enough about the job he did after losing Turner and getting off to such a slow league start.1
Congratulations, gents.
- 1 The media went with Matta while the coaches went with Purdue's Painter for the award. Maybe there is something to all of the drive-by handshakes Thad seems to be getting lately.
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Hope this doesn't become a threadjack, but it's absurd that Matta's won COY three times, but Tress hasn't.
Congrats to the guys all around. Now let's lock up that uber-title.
Congrats to ET, Lighty, Buford, and Threebler. You all make me proud to be a Buckeye!
Could The Vest just be a "victim" of his own success / high expectations? Let's face it... with the expectations going in to this season, there is a 0.00% chance of Tress winning Big Ten CoY (and a 75.8% of Kirk Ferentz winning... yet again...should Iowa finish higher than third in the conference).
SHOCKER!
How can ET lead the league in steals and not make the all-defensive team?
It's nice to have Thad, JT and Foster, isn't it? Just compare that department success and stability with what the school up north is experiencing with its most prominent coaches?
Geiger was good for this university in several ways. TOSU has the athletic department it does because the money-making sports are annually successful in a big way.
Oh, and there is a 99.99% chance every year that Joe Pa or Ferenz will win the COY. The lack of COY awards for JT is absurd. In fact, I think last year we had almost no first-team all conference guys, the media went with almost all Penn St and IA players, it seemed. So, naturally, the media felt taking a "less-talented" team and winning the conference meant JT was just below the other guy.
and rebounds.
Two things:
1. The coaches voting Painter as CoY over Matta is ridiculous. I could have coached Purdue to a title with the talent they have in their starting five.
2. I would love to know who got that non-Turner vote for PoY from the coaches. I can't think of another Big Ten player who is even in the same zip code as Turner. Oh well.
Of course he did!
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