We are now halfway through the conference season which means it’s time for my midseason awards ballot. I’ll list my picks for 1st through 3rd conference teams*, all-freshman team, most improved player, defensive player of the year, and player of the year.
*The reason for the asterisk is that the Pac-12 puts out a 10-person 1st team and a 5-person 2nd team. This is pure stupidity and I refuse to recognize it. Let’s start with the conference teams in reverse order.
Honorable Mentions: Kylor Kelley- Oregon State, Tyler Bey- Colorado, Noah Dickerson- Washington- Justice Sueing- California
My goal with the all-conference teams was to try to make lineups that could theoretically play together and not be a complete mess.