Ryan Kalkbrenner

[jays911]

Can’t be there tonight, but a tip of the hat to Ryan. Thanks for the memories.

[SeattleJay]

Kalk is one of 15 players named as a finalist for the Wooden award as the best player in the country:

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... ard-top-15

Congratulations, Ryan!

[Alphawalt]

Kalk is one of 15 players named as a finalist for the Wooden award as the best player in the country:

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-baske ... ard-top-15

Congratulations, Ryan!

The only 4 players on both Wooden list and defensive player of year Naismith list are Kalkbrenner, Flagg, Broome and Ziegler. I guess those four guys should be first team all American. The last guy could be Cryer or Haggerty.

[CU10S93]

Number 4 DPOY!

[SeattleJay]

Congratulations to Ryan on being named BE defensive POY!

The fact that the coaches voted on it makes it clear that it was well deserved.

[SeattleJay]

Does anyone know if the vote tally for DPOY is public? It would be interesting to see how close to unanimous it was.

[Alphawalt]

Ryan named today to third team All-American. Congrats!

[skinzfan23]

That is good that he got named, but only 3rd team is ridiculous.

[Chicagojayfan]

That is good that he got named, but only 3rd team is ridiculous.

completely ridiculous. I'm starting to get very worried about the BE. We appear to be losing relevance and influence rapidly

We may pull out of it (meaning the downward trend) next year, and certainly teams will start to schedule OOC teams to game the system, but there are a lot of worrying signs for the conference right now

[JaysLifer]

That is good that he got named, but only 3rd team is ridiculous.

completely ridiculous. I'm starting to get very worried about the BE. We appear to be losing relevance and influence rapidly

We may pull out of it (meaning the downward trend) next year, and certainly teams will start to schedule OOC teams to game the system, but there are a lot of worrying signs for the conference right now

Not sure why Kalkbrenner being slighted spells doom for the conference. Kam Jones and RJ Luis both made second team; Eric Dixon made the third team. While it's ridiculous that Jones was placed ahead of Kalkbrenner, it doesn't mean the conference is in a death spiral. There were 15 All-Americans, and 4 of them represent the Big East (the same number as the SEC; 1 more than the Big 12; 3 more than the ACC; and 2 more than the Big Ten).

It's also worth noting that Kalkbrenner missed the second team by a mere 1 point. Luis and Haggerty from Memphis both had 118 points from the voting process, and Kalkbrenner had 117.