BIG EAST 2023-24 AWARDS

[BRS24]

I have a problem with 1 award: DPOY. Nika deserved a third.

Without really digging into stats, I agree. I've always thought that successfully defending an opponent's top scorer(s) is more valuable than a taller player getting a bunch of blocks. Then again, I may be a bit biased.

 

[BRS24]

While I congratulate all the winners of the respective awards, I’m not really sure how to feel about these results. On one hand, I’m ecstatic that UConn shone brightly, but on the other hand, I’m a bit disappointed in the results. I was hoping for Co-champions, as in:
Co-FOY — Ashlyn and KK
Co-POY — Aaliyah and Paige
In any event, I’m a Boneyarder who’s happy about UConn’s success! Go Huskies!!

This was also my pipe dream, however the other 10 coaches would have had to align perfectly and split the votes for POY and FOY. All in all though, a successful day!

 

[FormerCTrez]

I have a problem with 1 award: DPOY. Nika deserved a third.

Yes, most definitely!

 

[huskeynut]

The two selections for DPOY - no. Nika, without question deserved a third DPOY. Might want to ask Unique Drake a few others about Nika's defense.

Since I'm slightly biased, Nika should have been on the first team all big east.

 

[HuskyNan]

Both KK and Ash were unanimous All-Freshman team honorees, as noted by the asterisk *

 

[From France]

Both KK and Ash were unanimous All-Freshman team honorees, as noted by the asterisk *

And it wasn't surprising, I think

 

[pvdoggy]

Shade is the only freshman who was recognized in the All-BigEast honor. Nice!

 

[From France]

Both KK and Ash were unanimous All-Freshman team honorees, as noted by the asterisk *

Who is your avatar by now, please ?

 

[HuskyNan]

Who is your avatar by now, please ?

March is Women’s History Month. My first honoree:

Cecilia Payne: Discoverer of the Chemical Makeup of Stars | AMNH

What are the stars made of? At 25, Cecilia Payne answered this fundamental question in her Ph.D. thesis.

www.amnh.org

 

[HuskyNan]

What Geno has accomplished this season has been astonishing. He has half a team comprised of, essentially, 7 players, of which 4 are freshmen, and went undefeated in an increasingly challenging conference. He really is the G.O.A.T.

 

[gandydancer]

I'm so glad that #12 got the honors she so richly deserved. It's not just the numbers you put up, it's everything else you do to help your team win. I'm sure that I'm misquoting someone when I say, " I just feel better when she's on the court ".

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Happy for Paige but I’m not gonna lie here, I was hoping POY was going to be Edwards!

 

[topogigio]

The two selections for DPOY - no. Nika, without question deserved a third DPOY. Might want to ask Unique Drake a few others about Nika's defense.

Since I'm slightly biased, Nika should have been on the first team all big east.

I feel sorry for the players Nika will be assigned to defend during the BE tournament! Nika will not take this slight lightly.

 

[From France]

March is Women’s History Month. My first honoree:

Cecilia Payne: Discoverer of the Chemical Makeup of Stars | AMNH

What are the stars made of? At 25, Cecilia Payne answered this fundamental question in her Ph.D. thesis.

www.amnh.org

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It was a very good article, sad she was recognzed so late, being an intelligent woman a century ago was a sacrilege it seems

 

[darrell]

Happy for Paige but I’m not gonna lie here, I was hoping POY was going to be Edwards!

Paige seems to agree.

 

[oldude]

One of the issues with CoDPOY or CoFOY is that with 11 teams, in order for a tie to occur, at least 3 players have to receive votes. That clearly occurred with DPOY with either a 5/5/1 split or a 4/4/3 split, with Nika likely in 3rd place. With no individual award being unanimous, we can also assume that Aaliyah got some votes for POY and KK got some votes for FOY.

Congratulations to everyone who received recognition. On to the BE tournament.

 

[BRS24]

One of the issues with CoDPOY or CoFOY is that with 11 teams, in order for a tie to occur, at least 3 players have to receive votes. That clearly occurred with DPOY with either a 5/5/1 split or a 4/4/3 split, with Nika likely in 3rd place. With no individual award being unanimous, we can also assume that Aaliyah got some votes for POY and KK got some votes for FOY.

Congratulations to everyone who received recognition. On to the BE tournament.

Hmm. I thought that you could not vote for your own player? Or is that preseason voting?

 

[Forego]

Scanning the list of the awards I noted that all of the players are listed as guards or forwards. Brianna Scott is the only award winner listed at 6’4” on her team’s roster. Upon further review I saw that there are only about 6 or 7 players in the conference who are listed at 6’4” or taller (including Jana). Bigs are a lot scarcer than I realized.

 

[geordi]

Sorry! But my initial reaction is that the Big East consists of a bunch of gutless wonders. A 'First Team' should be made up of 5 players. When the rules are changed to allow 10 on the court from each team at one time, I'll accept a 10 player first team. Make a GD decision!!! Who are the 5 starters among the 10 names? Why not put together a 10 member second team too? Are the second team named actually the third team?

This just reeks of participation trophies for all the kids on the 0 - 12 soccer team. Can't have anyone feel bad about themselves now, can we?

Now that my rant is over, congratulations to all of the players who were chosen.

 

[HuskyNan]

Scanning the list of the awards I noted that all of the players are listed as guards or forwards. Brianna Scott is the only award winner listed at 6’4” on her team’s roster. Upon further review I saw that there are only about 6 or 7 players in the conference who are listed at 6’4” or taller (including Jana). Bigs are a lot scarcer than I realized.

Actually, it’s 6-5 and taller girls who are rare. A 6-5 tall person has 77 inches of height. Now imagine the percentage of 6-5 women who are elite basketball players - the percentage of the population is tiny. There is no large pool of very tall women capable of playing elite level ball to choose from

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/585718168419c246cf6f204e/t/5ab7e2de70a6adbbb6bcf676/1522000606378/STATISTICS%2B-Dimensions%2B-%2B3-19-18%2B%281%29.pdf

 

[oldude]

Hmm. I thought that you could not vote for your own player? Or is that preseason voting?

Not sure how there could be 6 unanimous all-conference selections if you can’t vote for your own player.

 

[Henry]

The maximum votes any player can get is 10, so if a player gets 10 votes then they're considered unanimous. That's my take.

 

[oldude]

Sorry! But my initial reaction is that the Big East consists of a bunch of gutless wonders. A 'First Team' should be made up of 5 players. When the rules are changed to allow 10 on the court from each team at one time, I'll accept a 10 player first team. Make a GD decision!!! Who are the 5 starters among the 10 names? Why not put together a 10 member second team too? Are the second team named actually the third team?

This just reeks of participation trophies for all the kids on the 0 - 12 soccer team. Can't have anyone feel bad about themselves now, can we?

Now that my rant is over, congratulations to all of the players who were chosen.

Just about every conference selects a 10-player all conference team, as does the WBCA, which has been doing so for years, and is Geno’s metric for elevating any UConn player’s name on a banner at both the Werth Center and Gampel Pavilion as an HOH honoree.

Let’s not minimize the remarkable achievements of these extraordinary young ladies who are all deserving of the recognition granted to them by the conference.

 

[stamfordhusky]

The maximum votes any player can get is 10, so if a player gets 10 votes then they're considered unanimous. That's my take.

That is correct.

 

[MSGRET]

Me thinks that Nika is going to be PO'd and on a mission to prove those non-believers wrong over the next 3 games.

 

[oldude]

Me thinks that Nika is going to be PO'd and on a mission to prove those non-believers wrong over the next 3 games.

“Nika PO’s and on a mission.” Seems to me that’s a pretty accurate description of Nika’s attitude for the past 4 seasons at UConn….

 

[uconnfan68]

Paige’s POY award puts her in rarified air. She joins Kerry Bascom, Rebecca Lobo, Diana Taurasi, and Maya Moore as multiple winners of that award. That would be a super team if I ever saw one.