According to the internet, last year's All-Conference release for the NSIC came out the day after the opening round of the NSIC Tournament.
With that in mind, does anyone have further thoughts on the following categories:
Player of the Year:
Defensive Player of the Year:
Freshman of the Year:
Newcomer of the Year:
Coach of the Year:
All-NSIC 1st Team (10 players):
All-NSIC 2nd Team (10 players):
Just to get things going, I'll throw out my sad attempt at knowing things:
Player of the Year: Gage Davis - My guess is he wins it due simply to his eye-popping numbers, even if his team doesn't make the Regional this year (short of a strong NSIC Tourney run, obviously).
Defensive Player of the Year: John Warren - I never pay as close attention to other teams' defenders to really have an informed opinion about this, I just know that if I were a basketball player, I would not want John Warren guarding me for the entirety of a game. I think that would be miserable.
Freshman of the Year: Harrison Clearly is the obvious choice, but I think in almost any other year, Jai'Vionne Green would be a strong candidate. Then again, we probably could've said the same thing about whoever was 2nd best after Gage Davis last season.
Newcomer of the Year: Jon Doss at Moorhead? Aarias Austin at Mankato? I can see it being either of them. But I also haven't paid close attention, so maybe I'm overlooking someone obvious.
Coach of the Year: Chad Walthall - My guess is that it goes to Walthall, even though SMSU fans will lament that the Mustangs were picked to finish 7th and ended up finishing 2nd overall and that's more impressive than Walthall's outright conference title. I don't entirely disagree, but, as these awards have shown over the years, the award almost always goes to the coach who wins the conference outright, other than when Bigler won it a few years ago. But maybe I'll be proven wrong on this one.
All-NSIC 1st Team (10 players):
-Jordan Spencer, Augie
-Gage Davis, St. Cloud
-Scottie Stone, St. Cloud
-Tyler Rudolph, Minot
-Aaron Lien, Moorhead
-Tanner Kretchman, Moorhead
-Mack Arvidson, Northern
-Logan Doyle?, Northern
-Bryan Jefferson, U-Mary
-Harrison Cleary, Crookston
All-NSIC 2nd Team (10 players):
-Ayob Ayob, Moorhead
-Mike Busack, Augie
-Ryan Bruggeman, SMSU
-Mitch Weg, SMSU
-Jon Fuqua, Mankato
-Joey Witthus, Mankato
-Jai'Vionne Green, Bemidji
-Drew Geubert, USF
-Riley Bambenek, WSU
-Damonta Henry, U-Mary
About 2/3 of my 1st and 2nd team picks were carefully reasoned out. The rest were mostly me looking at the top names in the scoring, rebounds, and assist columns of the season stats in the NSIC and picking the guys whose names came up most frequently toward the top of those columns.
With that in mind, does anyone have further thoughts on the following categories:
Player of the Year:
Defensive Player of the Year:
Freshman of the Year:
Newcomer of the Year:
Coach of the Year:
All-NSIC 1st Team (10 players):
All-NSIC 2nd Team (10 players):
Just to get things going, I'll throw out my sad attempt at knowing things:
Player of the Year: Gage Davis - My guess is he wins it due simply to his eye-popping numbers, even if his team doesn't make the Regional this year (short of a strong NSIC Tourney run, obviously).
Defensive Player of the Year: John Warren - I never pay as close attention to other teams' defenders to really have an informed opinion about this, I just know that if I were a basketball player, I would not want John Warren guarding me for the entirety of a game. I think that would be miserable.
Freshman of the Year: Harrison Clearly is the obvious choice, but I think in almost any other year, Jai'Vionne Green would be a strong candidate. Then again, we probably could've said the same thing about whoever was 2nd best after Gage Davis last season.
Newcomer of the Year: Jon Doss at Moorhead? Aarias Austin at Mankato? I can see it being either of them. But I also haven't paid close attention, so maybe I'm overlooking someone obvious.
Coach of the Year: Chad Walthall - My guess is that it goes to Walthall, even though SMSU fans will lament that the Mustangs were picked to finish 7th and ended up finishing 2nd overall and that's more impressive than Walthall's outright conference title. I don't entirely disagree, but, as these awards have shown over the years, the award almost always goes to the coach who wins the conference outright, other than when Bigler won it a few years ago. But maybe I'll be proven wrong on this one.
All-NSIC 1st Team (10 players):
-Jordan Spencer, Augie
-Gage Davis, St. Cloud
-Scottie Stone, St. Cloud
-Tyler Rudolph, Minot
-Aaron Lien, Moorhead
-Tanner Kretchman, Moorhead
-Mack Arvidson, Northern
-Logan Doyle?, Northern
-Bryan Jefferson, U-Mary
-Harrison Cleary, Crookston
All-NSIC 2nd Team (10 players):
-Ayob Ayob, Moorhead
-Mike Busack, Augie
-Ryan Bruggeman, SMSU
-Mitch Weg, SMSU
-Jon Fuqua, Mankato
-Joey Witthus, Mankato
-Jai'Vionne Green, Bemidji
-Drew Geubert, USF
-Riley Bambenek, WSU
-Damonta Henry, U-Mary
About 2/3 of my 1st and 2nd team picks were carefully reasoned out. The rest were mostly me looking at the top names in the scoring, rebounds, and assist columns of the season stats in the NSIC and picking the guys whose names came up most frequently toward the top of those columns.
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