One Bright Spot, Kinda
by Hire Esherick on Mar 10, 2009 8:14 PM EDT
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PrintCongrats to Greg Monroe for being named Big East Rookie of the Year.
The last Georgetown freshman to be the sole recipient of the prestigious award was Allen Iverson, who left after his sophomore year. Please don't follow in his footsteps Greggy bear.
In other news, coaches completely wussed out by naming Blair and Thabeet Co-Players of the Year. Blair should be Big East Player of the Year, he dominated Thabeet the first time they met and Pitt is responsible for 2 out of the 3 UConn losses this year.
No idea why Jay Wright is Coach of the Year. Villanova was predicted to finish 5th in the Big East and instead they made a huge jump to 4th! Coaches that deserved it over the fabulously glamorous Wright: Bob Huggins, Mick Cronin, Keno Davis, Buzz Williams, even Jamie Dixon.
Good talk.
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Agreed.
Blair actually showed up in big games and dominated Thabeet when they played one another. I think you could have made an argument for Sam Young for POY, too.
As far as COY goes, there have been many times this season that I have wondered whether Jay Wright would have gotten more out of our group, and he just looks so damn fashionable on the sidelines that I can’t complain. Keno Davis would have been my choice, but the Friars probably needed to finish stronger.
I agree that Blair is the POY for sure and I think Jay Wright was the right call. Keno and Buzz both walked into pretty decent situations. Sharaud Curry was hurt most of last year and PC missed him big time and the team overall was a veteran squad with an average SOS at 56 this year. Providence was better than their record last year and probably outplayed expectations this year, but Keno fell into a pretty good situation (better than most people realized anyway.
Same could definitely be said for Buzz. Tom Crean built a solid program up there in Cheese country and there are 4 fantastic seniors on that team. Buzz didn’t really have to do all that much to get that team to win. I think he’s more deserving of Keno, but you can see how much that one was the players once DJ went down and they’ve struggled without him.
Jay Wright on the other hand, took a Villanova team that played to a SOS of 38 and realistically does not belong as the 4 seed in the BET. They are undersized at every single position and should be overmatched against most of the top teams in the BE. They took Louisville to the wire in Philly (a game that easily could have gone the other way), beat Syracuse twice (exactly the kind of team they should be overmatched against and they whooped Marquette. In back to back games, they scored 100 points against Syracuse and Marquette. I hate Jay Wright, but he is a damn good coach and I definitely think he deserved to win it this year. Jamie Dixon probably would have been my second choice.
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