In addition to DeVries, other Bulldogs to earn the league's Larry Bird trophy include Jeff Halliburton (1971), Lewis Lloyd (19), Curt Smith (1993) and Emmenecker. Others who have previously accomplished the feat include Ashraf Amaya of Southern Illinois Doug McDermott Seth Tuttle of UNI Cameron Krutwig of Loyola and AJ Green.ĭeVries is the first Drake Bulldog to win the league's top honor since Adam Emmenecker in 2008. Sophomore Tucker DeVries of Drake joins Doug McDermott of Creighton (2012), Fred VanVleet of Wichita State (2014), and AJ Green of UNI (2020) on that illustrious list, as announced by the league office tonight.įull Release and PDF of All-Conference TeamsĪdditionally, DeVries joins a group of just five others to win both the league's Freshman of the Year honor and later earn the MVC's Larry Bird Trophy. LOUIS - For just the fourth time in Missouri Valley Conference history, a sophomore student-athlete has earned the Larry Bird Trophy, presented by Great Southern Bank, given to the MVC men’s basketball Player of the Year. 10 Indiana (20-13) on Friday in Omaha, Neb.ST. It motivates your own guys to want to get into that national spotlight, to want to get to rise up to that challenge and meet that challenge.” “The other thing it does is I think it drives your own guys. So people around the country understand the quality of play within our league,” Northern Iowa coach Ben Jacobson said. “No question, the things that those two programs have done helped us this year. 10 in The Associated Press Top 25 this season because of their performance but also the high regard the Valley has earned. The Panthers (30-3) were the beneficiaries of all the attention focused on their MVC competitors in previous years. 12 Wyoming on Friday in an East Region matchup. ![]() The bigger goal for the West Coast Conference champs is to advance to the second weekend, something they haven’t done since 2009.įLY VALLEY FLAG: Now it’s Northern Iowa’s turn to carry the flag for the Missouri Valley Conference into the NCAAS.Īfter Wichita State and Creighton received the spotlight in recent seasons, it’s the fifth-seeded Panthers getting the attention this time around as they to face No. ![]() 15 North Dakota State and Manual product Lawrence Alexander, the Summit League Player of the Year. The second-seeded Bulldogs are making their 17th straight appearance in the tournament, with their first game set for Friday against No. It’s another rite of March: Gonzaga out of the NCAA Tournament by the end of the first weekend. MAJOR GOAL: It’s a rite of March: Gonzaga in the NCAA Tournament. “We want to have something like that that we can remember, just like he did with that shot.” “I think the biggest thing that we have to go through thinking is that we want to create our own moment,” said Peters, a former Washington standout. They figure it is about time to add one more shining moment. The Crusaders have not won a tournament game since that surprising run to the Sweet Sixteen in 1998. Valpo, the 13th seed in the Midwest Region faces No. The Crusaders (28-5) are back in the tournament and so is Drew, now in his fourth season as coach. “It’s on pictures throughout our campus.” “It’s hard to count how many times we’ve seen it,” Crusaders forward Alec Peters said Wednesday. You still haven’t seen “The Shot” - as it’s known at Valparaiso - as much as the Crusaders. The one that broke Mississippi’s heart in the 1998 NCAA Tournament and turned little Valpo into one of March’s most memorable giant killers. ![]() Think about how often you have seen Bryce Drew’s famous buzz-beater for Valparaiso.
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