Lucas, Green, Morgan earn Big Ten honors
Lucas lands on 1st team, Green unanimous choice for Sixth Man of the Year
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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.
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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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1st Amendment
(03/09/10 12:30am)Report
Ask Morgan what the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is. He’s getting his baccalaureate in May, when many talented kids at Central Michigan could not get admitted here, and he told the LSJ he did NOT know which amendment guarantees speech, religion, press, and assembly.
This republic…is dead.
Sad Reality
(03/09/10 12:40am)Report
The sad thing is, I’m pretty sure AT LEAST 25% of MSU students would be tripped up by that question.
Internationalism
(03/09/10 12:48am)Report
Two reasons:
(1) Dumbed down American public by precisely these kinds of headlines: ultimately meaningless sports fanatacism
(2) Internationals who do NOT care about our Michigan and American families.
Fox News
(03/09/10 12:51am)Report
The first headline should be the national Fox News Channel had Tucker Carlson LIVE ON LOCATION on Monday, March 8, 2010 in East Lansing. He interviewed an entomologist who sheepishly revealed that a $200,000 stimulus grant was used to hire 4 students at 10 bucks an hour.
I know the federal and collegiate administrations only consider liberal MSNBC propaganda to be legitimate, but hear me out. A large pool of Americans watch Fox News propaganda, and they are would be MSU supporters and donors…until they hear about their federal tax dollars going towards putting bugs in freezers to hire four students over a course of two years.
Int'l Redux
(03/09/10 12:53am)Report
Excuse me, fanaticism ;)
?
(03/09/10 2:53am)Report
I’m sorry but why the hell are you talking about the 1st amendment? And to the person who commented on “ultimately meaningless sports fanaticism” in the headlines, this is a college student paper. For the love of God. If I want updates on the 412th day of continuous coverage on Obamacare, I’ll turn to the NYT. In the mean time, a little escape, in the form of sports coverage, from the monotony of daily life never hurt anyone.
Congrats to these players, and good luck in the BTT.
?
(03/09/10 2:55am)Report
*meantime.
Go Green. Go America.
@ 1st
(03/09/10 8:01am)Report
i bet morgan has a few more things to worry about than memorizing which amendment provides what liberty. but i’m sure you know them all. and we’re all so proud of you. how’d you ever learn it all? i’m sure i’d hate you if i meet you.
@@1st
(03/09/10 10:24am)Report
That’s fantastic. My hard working rural farmer family has paid over a century of Michigan taxes to subsidize the education of non-functioning citizens. That’s fantastic, I’m sure our hatred is/would be mutual.
2001
(03/09/10 11:03am)Report
Wow…1st Amendment needs to get a life. Basketball and football make TONS of money for the school, not to mention they are tradition in American higher education. 1st needs to get over it, or move your rural farming family to France.
2001
(03/09/10 11:06am)Report
Not to mention your rural farming family has probably received crop subsidies for decades from the federal and/or state. A scholarship here and there paid for by the revenue the sport produces is not hurting you or your family.
Jason B
(03/09/10 11:40am)Report
What is all this talk about the first amendment and dumbed down american policy and stimulus grants? This article is about the BASKETBALL POSTSEASON AWARDS. Take your political whining to a site where someone actually cares. Then get a life.
Privatize BB and FB Now
(03/09/10 1:24pm)Report
We have veered viciously far away from the mission of higher education. Do what you want dribbling, kicking, and throwing play things with your own money, more power to you.
Just do it on land where you pay property taxes, and don’t utilize a dime of the public funds from families who are currently SUFFERING.
P.S. Our lovely federal government paired with their traitor buddies on Wall Street caused the Agricultural Depression of the 20s we experienced that preceded the Great Depression, but I’m sure our liberal controlled Board of Trustees ensured you’d be a functioning citizen with that knowledge, right? Wrong.
Go Green, No Whites.
No wonder MSU crowd is crap
(03/09/10 3:36pm)Report
So, are you guys all in the izzone? or do you just sit in the regular sections of the Breslin Center during games? …Now I know why the MSU crowds at home games suck…
Tom
(03/09/10 5:14pm)Report
Congrats to these three guys.
How about the SN do an article on Allen and how Izzo should kick his butt of the team? He is the exact opposite of Green – suspended multiple times this year, and right before going into the Big 10 Tournament.
Good thing he’s not much better than a walk on, and we don’t really need him.
'MSU crowd is crap' guy's mother hates him
(03/09/10 8:27pm)Report
The Izzone is ranked fourth best student section in the nation, tops in the B10. What the hell are you talking about you clown.
I smell a Walmart Wolverine. 857 days.
what
(03/10/10 5:10pm)Report
What the hell is going on in with these comments?!?
Basketball and Football is MSU. Thats why I didn’t go to CMU, GVSU, WMU, EMU, Oakland, ect. Why would anyone go to a school that had a shitty bball or football team?
WHATEVER
(03/11/10 10:02am)Report
In that very same article Isahaa Dahlman also did not know the answer to the question about the 1st Amendment. Interesting how you single out the African American athlete and not the White one.
willard dean
(03/13/10 11:38pm)Report
Wow. Knew it wouldn’t be long before some idiot played the race card
willard dean
(03/13/10 11:38pm)Report
Wow. Knew it wouldn’t be long before some idiot played the race card