To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten selection, student-athletes must be letterwinners at least in their second academic year at their institution and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.

Out of the five Big Ten teams with seven fall sports, MSU finished third behind Ohio State and Indiana. Penn State (72) and Michigan (41) finished fourth and fifth in that category, respectively. U-M’s 41 honorees were 10th among the conference’s 11 teams.

Notable individual Spartans honored were Corey Block, a field hockey sophomore back and kinesiology major, who was one of eight Big Ten athletes to have a 4.0 grade point average, field hockey senior midfielder and hospitality business major Floor Rijpma, who earned unanimous Offensive Player of the Year accolades, and football senior wide receiver and human biology major Blair White, who already had been named Academic All-American.