FWIW, 247 had him #36.
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Yes 247 ranked him 36th
Edit: the juiceman cometh before I did
Edit 2: looks like our competition was Gonzaga, BYU and Wake Forest… while not necessarily unheralded, wasn’t a lot of teams that had the same idea we did at the time
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Absolute travesty that Jake did not make the All Hair team.
Full list of all awards here, for those that want to express outrage at the number of awards not won by Illini:
https://bigten.org/mbb/article/59585/
Full list of all awards here, for those that want to express outrage at the number of awards not won by Illini:
https://bigten.org/mbb/article/59585/
IIRC, on here the two teams mentioned here were Kansas and Gonzaga. However, it was super late in the process, and both had found other options.
Don't recall Kansas, but I do remember after KJ and Demin committed to Illinois and BYU, respectively, that it was said that the situation was basically whichever one didn't get the big bag from BYU was going to Illinois... BYU picked Demin and we ended up with (imo) the better player
Absolutely not. He’s a clown
Can't edit post anymore, but this is probably circumstantially evidenced by them committing on the same day
Individual advanced metrics are a lot less accurate than team ones (especially defensive), but FWIW, Lendeborg was generally at/near the top, and Smith was near the top (but so was Bruce Thornton). Boyd was further down. So the votes are at least justifiable.
Bradley, on the other hand, not so much. He was only in the top 10 (barely, @ #9) in one of the few I checked.
Wagler on Jerry West finalists list.
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Absolutely not.
He should find consolation in the aftermath of that mind-boggling crotch grab and subsequent diversionary flop at NW that he joins Fears as First Team BT All-Douchebag.
Finalists for Jerry West award: Keaton Wagler, Brayden Burries, Emmanuel Sharp, Solo Ball, Isaiah Evans.
Keaton should be the frontrunner to win it, no?
Keaton should be the frontrunner to win it, no?
He is really good. Should have missed about 6 games though via nutshots. I feel like players have got more for less in the past.
Clearly the MLB/NFL hall of fame voters weren't involved with this (steroids, Belichick, etc)
Mirk, Kylan, Jake, the twins, KW, they move to my list of all-time Illini. Glad to see so many guys get accolades, and obviously congrats to KW for his well deserved recognition on the all freshman team. He'll get another big award in late June. Love to see these guys get a banner (or two!).
All B1G dirty team
Fears
Kaufman-Renn
Bilodeau
Jamerson II
Baker-Mazara
Honorable mention ---- Solomon Washington and Nick Boyd ---- technical fouls leaders (next to Fears).
Fears
Kaufman-Renn
Bilodeau
Jamerson II
Baker-Mazara
Honorable mention ---- Solomon Washington and Nick Boyd ---- technical fouls leaders (next to Fears).
Yaxel was the best player on the floor throughout Big Ten play. The only times Michigan wavered (like their loss to Wisconsin) were based on his health. I think the last four years the award has been correct. Before then the Davis and Garza years were a mistake.
Eh I don't agree with this. He was the best player on the best team sure but there wasn't a time this year where I was like 'I can't wait to watch Yaxel Lendeborg tonight'. Or Yaxel just took over the game and nothing the other team could do about it. I'm sure someone will nitpick and point out some game on Feb. 9 against Minnesota where he did just that but he's just a good player on a team with many of them. Just not a very exciting pick to me. I get it he won it and nothing we can do about it but best player on the floor throughout Big Ten play I just don't agree with that.
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