I agree the biggest lock of all the awards
Big Ten All-Conference Awards
Tacomallini
- Washington State
I think they'll announce Coach of the Triennial later today
foby
- Bonnaroo Land
Or maybe a lead in to 33's big year next season.
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Had we won the B1G outright, BU would have gotten COTY. Oh well.
I bet BU doesn’t give a flyin fart whether or not he got the award.
He’s got his eyes on other prizes.
Also, I said it before the Nebby loss (to my step father) that Wisconsin had 3 games left and they’d lose all 3 by 5 or less. Their luck would officially be gone.
Nebby
First BTT game
First MM game
I bet BU doesn’t give a flyin fart whether or not he got the award.
He’s got his eyes on other prizes.
Also, I said it before the Nebby loss (to my step father) that Wisconsin had 3 games left and they’d lose all 3 by 5 or less. Their luck would officially be gone.
Nebby
First BTT game
First MM game
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M tipping over
- Pdx
The numbers do ‘add up!’
The thing about COY is it's more analogous in practice to a "most improved player" award than a POY award. Championships and banners are the top prize for coaches, and BU has already nabbed one of those. I guarantee BU would take a BTT championship or a Final Four banner over COY, so hopefully our guys can get him both of those (I'd settle for just the FF though).
Ignatius Shang
5th year PhD, school of Information Sciences
- Champaign, IL
Happy to see Frazier in 2nd team and Plummer in 3rd team. Only thing I would argue is Trent definitely deserves DPOY - I think he was very close last year as well.
And Brad's proud record to have a kid in all-freshmen team ends (Trent, Ayo, Kofi, Belo), though I would not complain that.
And Brad's proud record to have a kid in all-freshmen team ends (Trent, Ayo, Kofi, Belo), though I would not complain that.
This was due to ties in the coaches vote. In the media vote Davidson was 3rd team and Geo Baker/Gabe Brown were honorable mentions.
Great take! \s
You forgot the obstacle of talent rated to finish 10th. Yeh, Brad deserves it, but Gard probably does, too.
If we were Wisky fans, we'd be pointing to that as exhibit A of great player development, i.e. coaching
This was a tough year to get Freshman of the Year. Good players, but not great players in the Freshman category.
Ignatius Shang
5th year PhD, school of Information Sciences
- Champaign, IL
Agreed. Even Caleb Houstan (10.5 ppg) wasn't able to make it to the first team.
TheFameProtector
- Champaign
You’re right, but that also doesn’t mean you’re right, if that makes sense. We would absolutely point to great player development but that doesn’t mean it would be correct to attribute a player’s improvements to the coach. It ultimately starts and ends with the player.
Also we game planned to play help defense on Davis and they game planned on Kofi to double and triple team him other than Wisconsin and how’d that work out for them?
If you judge expectations from where WI and ILL were on May 1 of last year, I am guessing Wi would have been higher ranked than ILL. But BU got three new assistants that are comparable to those that got hired away. He re-recruited Kofi and got both Frazier and DMW to come back. If the COY was based upon the entire body of work that started when we exited the tourney last year to date, it would be pretty tough to argue against BU.
But one thing BU has going for him is JW in the background. Our coaching staff now has the support it has always needed to be successful.
But one thing BU has going for him is JW in the background. Our coaching staff now has the support it has always needed to be successful.
Hope 4 of those guys go pro after the season
This year they should have done a super senior team
I rather have BU as our coach than last year’s coach of the year
I rather have BU as our coach than last year’s coach of the year
Zorak
- Naperville
I have no idea how you see three Illini on the All-Big Ten teams and conclude this.
We should have had all 17
That might be generous. He may have simply been picking the star that was least comparable to himself.
Yes. He is the only weapon they have on that end, aside from guys that can reach high.
It's ridiculous that DaMonte Williams isn't on there. It's also ridiculous that Kofi isn't POY given his numbers. And there should be a category for best flash and dash because that would be Curbelo.
Last point of ridiculous: the very scant coverage of the Illinois win for the share of the Big10 championship on the BIG 10 network!
And Andy Katz seems to have fallen out of love with Illinois lately. He named everybody as his picks for conference awards BUT any Illinois player in the conversation with Revsine.
Last point of ridiculous: the very scant coverage of the Illinois win for the share of the Big10 championship on the BIG 10 network!
And Andy Katz seems to have fallen out of love with Illinois lately. He named everybody as his picks for conference awards BUT any Illinois player in the conversation with Revsine.