(03-12-2014 12:39 PM)Bearcat2012 Wrote:  

(03-12-2014 12:29 PM)bearcatlawjd Wrote:  

(03-12-2014 12:25 PM)coachpipe Wrote:  Come on guys...Shabazz led his team to 4th place...He should have swept all the awards

I just can't believe they gave it to a player that hunts it own shot, fights with his teammates, and was complete non-factor in the most important conference games. At least SK won something, can't wait to hear from Mick Cronin.

Total and utter BS on Kilpatrick. Congrats to Mick tho . This is backwards of what I expected as I thought they'd give COY of Larry Brown.

Mick on his radio show Monday was talking up that he thought that Sean getting first team AA was a bigger honor than AAC player of the year. So maybe he saw this coming.

Congrats to JJ too ..well deserved!

All-American is a national award while player of the year in the conference is selected by ten coaches who probably split their votes between three guys. Does anyone think Shabazz received a majority of the votes? I can't imagine him getting six out of the ten coaches. He probably had five or four votes.

I don't know what you guys are talking about?! According to the 700wlw 1:00pm news report, the news guy said someone named KIRKPATRICK won Sportsman of the Year. [/align]

Quote:William Paxton ‏@wspaxton · 29m
Mick Cronin to Kilpatrick and Jackson on way out of luncheon: 'Heroes are made in March boys, this is all BS.'

Best line of the day, love it.

Really thought winning the league would put him over the top to win POY.

Maybe this will be a blessing in disguise and will fuel him to make a deep run in march!

(03-12-2014 12:04 PM)Overrated Wrote:  I think you are reading that wrong. In order to get consensus, you need to be named to the first team in all 4 publications. You are just first team if you are in the top 5 highest point totals.

He was correct, you can be a first team NCAA consensus AA without being named to the first team on all of the 4 recognized AA lists.

(03-12-2014 02:16 PM)subflea Wrote:  

(03-12-2014 12:04 PM)Overrated Wrote:  I think you are reading that wrong. In order to get consensus, you need to be named to the first team in all 4 publications. You are just first team if you are in the top 5 highest point totals.

He was correct, you can be a first team NCAA consensus AA without being named to the first team on all of the 4 recognized AA lists.

Weird. Glad I'm wrong.

"When you try to bring your team to where they are now and all the numbers do line up and you state the obvious, that's something that's very, I would say, diminishing," Kilpatrick said.

"Everyone knows what it's supposed to be, but certain things don't go your way over a whole bunch of votes. That's something that really hurts a lot because I worked all summer and really all my life to try to get to situations like this and it seems to always get snagged back from me. You've just got to use it as motivation. I'm all right."

Instead of the Player of the Year award, Kilpatrick received the league's Sportsmanship Award, which seemed almost like a consolation prize after he led his team to a regular-season co-championship.

"I still don't actually know what it means," Kilpatrick said. "That's the crazy thing. I don't know the definition behind it or anything like that. I guess that's how the dice rolled and I guess that's how they felt. It is what it is."

Napier won the award apparently based on his all-around play, even though the Huskies finished in a three-way tie for third place. He averaged 17.8 points, 6.0 rebounds and 5.2 assists, leading UConn in all three categories.

"Obviously, Shabazz is a great player and he had a great year," Cronin said. "I just thought with us winning the conference it should have been a no-brainer, but my message to SK is, with all due respect to these awards, I'd like to be standing on a podium in Dallas in April (at the Final Four) next to him. He's my MVP."

Cronin said he hopes Kilpatrick will use the snub as motivation in the postseason.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/ucathlet...r/6322047/

(03-12-2014 11:31 AM)bearcats5 Wrote:  Nick Johnson over SK?

I'm calling West Coast Bias on this one. I live in Albuquerque and all I ever hear out here is East Coast Bias.

(03-12-2014 01:12 PM)Cat-Man Wrote:  I don't know what you guys are talking about?! According to the 700wlw 1:00pm news report, the news guy said someone named KIRKPATRICK won Sportsman of the Year. [/align]

Idiots.

In 2011 Ben Hansborough was Big East MVP, yet it was Kemba Walker who led his team to a BE tourney and NCAA championship. Which one do you remember more? Hopefully SK makes Shazam Napier a footnote too when its all said and done.

Add one more to the pile, First Team USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/...l/6338579/

Quote:3. Sean Kilpatrick (Cincinnati)
Why he's here: How could Kilpatrick be third on this list when he wasn't even named the American's Player of the Year? That's a reasonable question, I guess. My answer: Because the people voting on that award screwed up. Just so we're clear, I don't mind UConn's Shabazz Napier being honored; he's also in the top five here. But Kilpatrick is averaging 20.9 points, 4.3 rebounds and 2.5 assists for a Cincinnati team that shared the league title with Louisville, and he got 34 points in a win over Memphis last week. That's strong.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketba...candidates