James Palmer Jr. was selected by a vote of his teammates as the Jack Moore Award winner for the 2017-18 season at the Huskers’ season-ending banquet.
The award, which is presented annually to the team’s Most Valuable Player, is named for late Husker guard Jack Moore, a 5-9 playmaker who set 17 school records in a career that ended in 1982. Moore was presented with the 1982 Francis Pomeroy-Naismith Award as the best collegiate player in the nation under six feet tall. A consensus All-Big Eight performer in 1982, Moore was killed in a plane crash in March of 1984.