Members of the men’s basketball team raise their 2010 Big Ten
championship trophy Sunday at Breslin Center. It marks the program’s
12th Big Ten championship.
MSU junior guard Kalin Lucas was selected to the All-Big Ten first team and sophomore guard Draymond Green was a unanimous selection for the conference’s Sixth Man of the Year, the conference announced Monday night.
Lucas, the 13th player in program history to be a two-time selection to the first team, leads the team in scoring with 14.8 points and 3.9 assists per game. He was the Big Ten Player of the Year last season.
“It feels good to be part of a small group of great players at Michigan State,” Lucas said in a statement. “This was something I worked for in the offseason and I kept working throughout the season. I was injured for a lot of the season, but I kept working hard and played through those injuries with help from my teammates.”
Lucas joins Demetri McCamey (Illinois), Evan Turner (Ohio State), Robbie Hummel (Purdue) and E’Twaun Moore (Purdue) on the first team. Turner was a unanimous choice for the conference’s Player of the Year.
Green, the first Spartan to win the Sixth Man award since it was introduced in 2006, has come off the bench in 28 of MSU’s 31 games this season. He leads the Spartans in rebounding (7.8 per game) and averages 10.1 points per game.
Green also was selected to the conference’s third team by both the coaches and media.
“I’m excited for Draymond to be named Sixth Man of the Year,” MSU head coach Tom Izzo said in a statement. “All season long, he put team goals ahead of his stats or his desire to start. As shown in his receiving third-team honors, he’s clearly a player that could have started all season. His unselfishness made us a better team. It’s appropriate that he received individual recognition for his team-first attitude.”
MSU senior forward Raymar Morgan also was selected to the third team by the coaches. It was the fourth straight season Morgan has earned some sort of recognition in the conference’s postseason awards.
Isaiah Dahlman was the Spartans’ recipient for the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award.
The Spartans, who clinched their second straight Big Ten title with a win against Michigan on Sunday, open postseason play at approximately 9 p.m. Friday against the winner of Penn State and Minnesota in the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis.
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