Published Mar 11, 2019
Michigan Basketball: Five Wolverines Earn Big Ten Honors
Chris Balas  •  Maize&BlueReview
Senior Editor

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Five of Michigan's 13 scholarship players earned postseason honors from the Big Ten, the most in 34 years.

Ignas Brazdeikis was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year, the seventh Wolverine in school history to win the award.

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Brazdeikis, who averaged 15 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, all made the all-freshman team.

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Brazdeikis and junior point guard Zavier Simpson both earned second-team All-Big Ten honors from both the coaches and media. Simpson averaged 9.1 points and 5.1 rebounds and also led U-M with 194 assists.

Charles Matthews, Jordan Poole and Jon Teske all made Honorable Mention All-Big Ten, the former by just the media.

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Matthews averaged 12.8 points per game and Teske 9.7 points and 6.7 rebounds.

Simpson also made the Big Ten's All-Defensive team.

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