March 11, 2025
By Big Ten Conference: The Big Ten Conference has announced its All-Big Ten Men’s Basketball Teams and individual award winners for the 2024-25 season. Due to ties, a total of 20 student-athletes were selected to the All-Big Ten teams by the coaches and the media. Additionally, 14 student-athletes were awarded honorable mention status.
Purdue’s Braden Smith was named Big Ten Player of the Year by both the league’s coaches and the media. Smith joins Zach Edey as the Boilermakers third consecutive Big Ten Player of the Year and earns Purdue’s seventh Player of the Year award.
Smith enters the postseason ranked second on the team with 16.3 points and 4.7 rebounds, while his 8.8 assists lead the conference and rank second in the country. With 506 points, 272 assists, 145 rebounds and 70 steals on the season, Smith becomes the fourth player in NCAA history to have at least 500 points, 270 assists, 140 rebounds and 70 steals in a season joining BYU’s Kyle Collinsworth, California’s Jason Kidd, and Georgia Tech’s Kenny Anderson.
Penn State’s Ace Baldwin Jr. was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year for the second consecutive season, becoming the first repeat winner since Purdue’s Kenneth Lowe in 2003 and 2004. One of 15 players named to the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Watchlist in February, Baldwin ranks 10th in the country with 2.37 steals per game, while his 71 total steals are good for 15th.
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