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Ted Thompson
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Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/9/2011 9:28:51 AM

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Cleveland, Ohio - Today the Mid-American Conference announced the All-MAC First Team, Second Team and Honorable Mention selections for the 2010-11 season. The teams were voted on by the league's head coaches. The league's All-Freshman team was also announced today.

Kent State's Justin Greene headlined the All-MAC First Team after being selected as this year's MAC Player of the Year. Joining Greene on the first team is Miami's Julian Mavunga, Ohio's D.J. Cooper, Northern Illinois' Xavier Silas and Ball State's Jarrod Jones.

The All-MAC Second Team featured Eastern Michigan's Brandon Bowdry, Akron's Nikola Cvetinovic, Kent State's Rod Sherman, Buffalo's Byron Mulkey and Western Michigan's Demetrius Ward.

Honorable mention recognition went to Buffalo's Zach Filzen and Javon McCrea, Bowling Green teammates Austin Calhoun and Scott Thomas, Central Michigan's Jalin Thomas and Trey Zeigler, Kent State's Michael Porrini, Miami's Nick Winbush, Ohio's DeVaughn Washington and Western Michigan's Flenard Whitfield.

The MAC All-Freshman team was led by Buffalo's McCrea and Central Michigan's Zeigler. Joining them on this year's squad was Ball State's Chris Bond, Ohio's Nick Kellogg and Western Michigan's Juwan Howard Jr.

Men's Quarterfinal action takes place tomorrow at Quicken Loans Arena on Thursday as No. 2 Western Michigan takes on No. 7 Bowling Green at Noon, No. 3 Miami faces off against No. 6 Akron at 2:30 p.m., No. 1 Kent State plays No. 8 Buffalo at 7 p.m. and No. 4 Ball State will tangle with No. 5 Ohio at 9:30 p.m.

All-MAC First Team
Justin Greene, Kent State
Julian Mavunga, Miami
D.J. Cooper, Ohio
Xavier Silas, Northern Illinois
Jarrod Jones, Ball State

All-MAC Second Team
Brandon Bowdry, Eastern Michigan
Nikola Cvetinovic, Akron
Rod Sherman, Kent State
Byron Mulkey, Buffalo
Demetrius Ward, Western Michigan

Honorable Mention
Zach Filzen, Buffalo
Javon McCrea, Buffalo
Austin Calhoun, Bowling Green
Scott Thomas, Bowling Green
Trey Zeigler, Central Michigan
Jalin Thomas, Central Michigan
Michael Porrini, Kent State
Nick Winbush, Miami
DeVaughn Washington, Ohio
Flenard Whitfield, Western Michigan

All-Freshman Team
Chris Bond, Ball State
Javon McCrea, Buffalo
Trey Zeigler, Central Michigan
Nick Kellogg, Ohio
Juwan Howard Jr., Western Michigan

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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/9/2011 9:32:33 AM

Tommy....

I'm OK with no Ivo because he'll be on this list the next 2 years.

Congrats to DJ, Devo, & Nick!

Last Edited: 3/9/2011 9:33:21 AM by Andrew Ruck

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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/9/2011 9:35:51 AM

Andrew Ruck wrote:

Tommy....

I'm OK with no Ivo because he'll be on this list the next 2 years.

Congrats to DJ, Devo, & Nick!

There is some pretty good talent on the Honorable Mention team. Do they have a set number of players who make the HM team? Not sure who you would knock off to add Tommy or Ivo. That being said so much of what Tommy does doesn't make the scoresheet so you really have to be paying attention and we know they aren't.

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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/9/2011 10:14:57 AM

It seems like a pretty fair list. I believe they take 10 honorable mention each year.

I'm sure Baltic and Freeman probably got votes, and if there were 15 spots, they'd both probably be on there, but it would be hard to pick any of those guys to remove in their place.

I thought Bowdry would be first team, considering he led the league in rebounding and was second in scoring, and I figured Jones probably was going to be second team the way Ball State kind of struggled after starting 5-0 in the league. But I guess it's the whole bad team thing working against him. He had to score the points and get the rebounds. I'm guessing the players are listed in order of votes on the first and second teams.

I wondered if Ballard might get honorable mention, but I figured it would be a long shot considering how early in MAC play he went out. Porrini was the most surpising pick and the only guy who averaged less than 10 points per game, but I understand what a big part of Kent State's success he was.

I can't say anything is way off base. I might have made just a few changes if I voted, but things turned out reasonably.

As for the freshman team, Toledo's Reese Holliday and Western Michigan's Matt Stainbrook could have been possibilities. I'd probably have left Chris Bond off for one of them, but then again, Bond shot 59 percent. Some tough calls for sure.

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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/9/2011 12:17:07 PM

I think Tommy deserved to be on there somewhere.

Cvetinovic is a good player, but do you think he's better than the HM guys? Not sure how he got second team.

Congrats to DJ, Devo and Nick!

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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/9/2011 12:36:15 PM

OUVan wrote:

Andrew Ruck wrote:

Tommy....

I'm OK with no Ivo because he'll be on this list the next 2 years.

Congrats to DJ, Devo, & Nick!

Stop that non-statistical analysis right now!

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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/9/2011 8:00:51 PM

No question that DJ, Devo and Nick deserved their accolades.

What may have hurt Tommy was his close range shooting. From inside the arc, he was only 13 of 43 -- 30%. That's what sticks out like a sore thumb. And I think his FT % was overlooked: 84.8%. That would've been third in the league but he didn't have enough "makes"; in order to qualify a player has to make at least 2 per game, but Tommy made only 56 in 31 games, even though he attempted more than 2 per game (66).

But how are these for obscure stats:
      27 turnovers in 905 minutes (one TO every 33.5 minutes; less than one per game)
      31 steals in 31 games
     +4 steals to TOs ratio

He also averaged only about 2.3 fouls per game. He probably drew a lot more than he got.

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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/9/2011 8:32:54 PM

I hate to say it but all of the charges or attempted charges hurt him. He is very very good at taking the charge, in fact the best I've ever seen, but some coaches and sports writers don't appreciate that and in fact, look down at it.

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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/9/2011 9:27:46 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

Agreed.

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

Andrew Ruck
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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/9/2011 11:06:23 PM

I agree Alan. Stupid, but true.

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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/10/2011 12:10:53 AM

Had they found Baltic a month earlier he would have been on the list. Baltic emerged as a primary scorer late in the season and he should have a big year next year as Cooper and Groce know they got a guy that teams have trouble stopping.

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RE: Cooper First Team, Devo Honorable Mention, Kellogg All-Freshman

Posted: 3/10/2011 10:39:24 AM

oubobcatjohn wrote:

We are going to need one of our other bigs (Keely, Smith, Jacobs, Goard(sp?)) to step up to take some of the pressure of him though. Having Devo on the other side takes a ton of pressure off of him. Think of Leon's sophomore season when teams just collapsed on him after Harbut and McGowan left and none of our other bigs filled the void. Keely has shown flashes recently so that's encouraging.

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