Big East coaches, media differ on 1 player
Posted: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:25 PM
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Maybe the Big East coaches and the media people who cover them aren’t so different. Turns out they see eye-to-eye on pretty much everything regarding preseason basketball.
Both think Notre Dame forward Luke Harangody is the player of the year.
The league’s top three teams are (in this order) Villanova, West Virginia and Connecticut. DePaul is the worst (again).
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And Harangody, Georgetown’s Greg Monroe, Villanova’s Scottie Reynolds and West Virginia’s Da’Sean Butler all garnered first-team honors. (The coaches had 6 first-teamers, the media five.)
Among the minor difference was Cincinnati’s Deonta Vaughn, who was a first-teamer by the coaches and a second-teamer by the media, whether Lance Stephenson (coaches) or Dante Taylor (Pitt) were the rookie of the year, and flip-flops by some teams in the standings (like Georgetown and Louisville, Notre Dame and Cincy, Rutgers and Providence).
Yet … there was one major difference.
The media whiffed on Marquette’s Lazar Hayward. The 6-7 do-it-all forward was on the coaches’ first team, but nowhere to be seen on any of the three media teams. Oops. Needless to say, Cracked Sidewalks was not pleased by the omission.
Fair enough. When our All-America team comes out next week, Hayward’s gonna be a thirdfifth-teamer. Guess we’re in line with the coaches…
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