Rice ready to hoop

"It surprised me, kind of caught me off guard. I thought it was going to be Brandon (Paul) or D.J. (Richardson) or one of those guys," said Rice, who shared the award with starters Tracy Abrams and Nnanna Egwu. "But the fact that the coaches noticed the work I put in and all the work they put me through was a great motivator. It makes you not want to stop and to just keep getting better."

Marcus Jackson