POY: Townsend
DPOY: Simmons
ROY: Igoe
COY: Harvard and Yale (tie)
1st team: R. Hinton, Power, Townsend (these 3 unanimous), Fiegen, Lewis
2nd team: Noland, Noard, Batties, Pigge, Roberts, Celiscar
HM: Mitchell-Day, Davis, Simmons
I can’t really argue about any of this.
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Davis gets honorable mention and not hicke? Who made these selections?
I noted this (mistakenly) on the Columbia board, but the Ivy press release highlighting Townsend’s (deserved) POY award had the chutzpah to say that he shot “a league best 48% from 3 point range”. Well, perhaps this is true in all Yale games, but Power was the clear winner in Ivy games at 47.7%. Townsend is not even listed in the leaderboard, perhaps because he didn’t take enough shots in conference, but I computed his conference only percentage and it was 43.9%
They base the awards on league play only, right? So a bit silly and dishonest to start pulling overall stats here, especially when coming with the adjective of “league best”.
Does anyone know how the Academic team is determined?
Just curious.
I hope Hicke uses it as extra motivation next season. It seems opposing coaches don’t think much of him. Couldn’t even get an HM.
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You know the voters got the honors pretty right when the loudest quibble is the wording of the Ivy League press release. I imagine that was written by someone in the Ivy League central office, who probably covers multiple sports, not some Yale agent with a dishonest agenda. C’mon.
My only objection was that Davis got HM rather than Hicke. Each coach nominates a player for the top individual awards (POY, DPOY, ROY), right? Maybe Henderson nominated Davis and that skewed voting.
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Total mistake by the voters
It would be great if they picked the academic team by playing a few games of College Bowl and see who got the most toss-ups right.
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Or have them watch “Good Will Hunting” and see if they can solve the problem on the blackboard before Matt Damon does.
And Cooper Manning could host.
Yes, to me the surprises are Hicke not getting HM, and Mitchell-Day only getting HM. Seems like Dartmouth merited some kind of recognition on first or second team. Maybe a little surprised that Noard wasn’t first team as well.
dont disagree. these awards should be based on league play so i dont understand the text either
this being said his stats and play on an 11-3 team shldnt change the selection so
townsend also missed half the harvard II game and one other so he played 12.5 games fwiw
simmons cldve been 2nd team if he was best defender and given pickup in offense and his efficiency on reg season champ?
It’s great to suggest a player “should have been” 2nd team or 1st team, etc. But if you are going to put Hicke in, who do you take out? If you are going to make Noard 1st team, who gets bumped? It has to be Fiegen right? The 4th place team can’t get 2 first teamers?
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As much as I respect and fear Cornell, their ultra-fast pace inflates PPG and other counting stats. So I would leave off Noard. I also think Hicke is on par with Noland, who made 2nd Team. But Hicke didn’t even get an HM, which means he didn’t even get a single vote.
That said, the coaches probably factored in Hicke being a junior. Noard and Noland are both seniors - this was their last chance for All-Ivy honors.
In the end, it’s not a big deal to me. But players often use this stuff as motivation, so I hope Hicke keeps the “snub” in mind.
Not too late to make McCaffrey part of a COY triumvirate. What he has done this season in his first year is fantastic. Pulling off that win today while losing Roberts for the season the day before, just remarkable.
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Actually, it is too late but McCaffery and staff have done a great job this season. But what is the standard for the coaching award? The coaches whose team does best? But that makes the award somewhat redundant to the team championship. The team that most exceeded expectations? The coaches whose team did well and who haven’t won in a while?
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All good questions. But if you’re going to go through the trouble to make it between two different coaching staffs this year, at this point it looks pretty silly not to include McCaffrey in the mix.
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Yale staff are great, but I think this year’s co-recognition was a “make up call” after they went 13-1 last year and weren’t given the honor. In this regular season, Amaker got the most out of his personnel – particularly outcoaching Jones in the two HY matchups, playing even with worse players.
Sure, the preseason voting underestimated Penn performance (anchored by prior poor performance?). But Roberts/Power/Zanoni is as good a core three as most any Ivy League team has. And I’ve seen enough of McCaffery screaming at his players, yanking Levine out of the game, etc. to feel confident he is a coach I would not want to play for (win or lose).
As I noted in predictions for post-season awards, McCaffery seems to have done the most in offseason developments (NIL, transfer portal, magic to get Zanoni another year), which is good for Penn and the IL, but I don’t think voters count that as part of COY.
Harvard had 3 guys named 1st or 2nd team All Ivy or HM. Penn had 2. But Penn knocked off Harvard 2 out of 3 times this year, including today when it only had 1 such player.