In what should come as a shock to absolutely nobody, Veronica Burton was announced on Tuesday as the Big Ten’s Defensive Player of the Year for the 2021-22 season. Burton earned the accolade for a third-straight year after affirming her Backcourt Burglar moniker, leading all Division I players with 111 steals in the regular season.
Burton was also unanimously named to the conference’s All-Defensive squad and received First Team All-Big Ten honors from both the media and coaches. While her selection to the First Team was unanimous among the conference’s coaches, she was not a unanimous selection among the media despite finishing second among all players in the conference with 10.