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MWC hands out basketball awards; BYU's Cummard co-player of the year

BlueCoug | 3:55 p.m. March 10, 2008

Congratulations to the MWC on a Solomonesque choice for Co-MVP - Lee and J.R are both well deserving of the honor!

Kyle | 3:56 p.m. March 10, 2008

It's a cop-out to name co-players of the year.

Gretzky | 4:00 p.m. March 10, 2008

whatever!!! J.T. is second team for sure, not third team. If BYU can win the conference then, the other teams' players are not that good. BYU should be filling up the roles of both first and second teams.

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Ernest T. Bass | 4:11 p.m. March 10, 2008

Giddons and ribcage deserve it, they are the best players in the MWC.

Anonymous | 4:18 p.m. March 10, 2008

Congrats to all those players in the MWC!

You Kiddin Me? | 4:29 p.m. March 10, 2008

Two first and one thrid team for a team that DOMINATED the conference and won back to back titles? The selection committee was clearly working to to be "PC" and chickened out, just like the co-player award.

Where was JR the first part of the year - and isn't his team barely in third place?

MWC shoudl celebrate the best players for the whole year and factore in where there teams ended up because of the efforts.

Lon as coach of the year was another "safe" choice Dave Rose could have easily been named, but it would have been embarassing to get it three years in a row.

BYU | 5:22 p.m. March 10, 2008

Cummard should have won it out right. His numbers have beeen great. BYU would have gotten more awards but people would have felt bad becuase they've done it 2 years in a row! Go cougs!

ball dropped | 5:28 p.m. March 10, 2008

Most conference wins in MWC history, national ranking, back to back regular season champions and lost the conference MVP. It sounds like Rose was ripped of another Coach of the Year. Way to go awards committee, this isn't Jr. Jazz "IT'S DIVISION I (BASKETBALL) it ain't intramurals". Give the award to the one most deserving, Lon Kruger is 2nd team coach of the year

Copout | 5:42 p.m. March 10, 2008

League pick co-players of the week all year...why wouldn't they pick co-players of the year.

Dazlaw | 6:36 p.m. March 10, 2008

Way to go Lee. Keep up the good work and let's make it to the sweet 16.

Sheriff Taylor | 6:32 p.m. March 10, 2008

Cummard should have won it outright. the MWC player of the year award goes to the MVP of the WINNING regular season champs. only a co-player award should go out IF there is a shared championship!!

lame | 6:39 p.m. March 10, 2008

co players of the week is a copout too. grow a backbone and give it to one player I say.

For Sure | 6:38 p.m. March 10, 2008

You wonderful Y dreamers will get just what you deserve at Las Vegas. What kind of a crying, whinning song are you going to sing then. National ranking? Who is kidding who? At best you are very average nationally.

Smeagol | 6:53 p.m. March 10, 2008

you're right dropped ball, the MWC did drop the ball. New Mexico's Giddons should have won the conference play of the year outright, best player in the conference bar none. It does not matter if his team finished third, it is an individual award not a team award. And kruger deserved to win the award for coach of the year, second in conference with an extremly depleted team, and their RPI is as good as BYUs. Oh by the way if rose wants the coach of the year award thats cool, kruger will just go to the sweet 16 in stead, oh wait didn't that happen last year.

Steve | 7:05 p.m. March 10, 2008

The player of the year should go to the best player, not the one who gets the best numbers by being selfish. The BYU players are the most unselfish. That is why they won the league title. The tournament in Las Vegas is a gift to UNLV, just as the coach of the year award was. The MWC is a bush league.

Hmm | 7:06 p.m. March 10, 2008

Why didn't Jimmy Boylen get coach of the year?

The only thing.... | 7:12 p.m. March 10, 2008

that matters is BYU is the champ AGAIN! Everything else is an insignificant footnote.

Woody Cox | 7:30 p.m. March 10, 2008

BYU will win Vegas! Congrats BIG LEE!

Ouch | 7:43 p.m. March 10, 2008

Yes, and we spanked Utah twice - again (you know - that "storied" progarm that has nothing to talk about other than what they did 10 years ago)!

Life is good.

R.E. Ouch | 8:16 p.m. March 10, 2008

I'm not a Utah fan but I do have to say you BYU fans are a joke you say some of the stupid things on these blogs

re: ouch | 8:38 p.m. March 10, 2008

wow, if this years victories were spankings, close games will be blowout wins for the Utes. And by the way, it is quite a storied program, with post-season performances to back it up. I'm pretty sure Bogut wasn't in the Sweet 16 ten years ago. So take your regular season champ., and a possible MWC tourney win, and GO WIN A REAL TOURNEY game. I'd actually be impressed. I'll gladly admit that the Utes aren't playin half as well as the cougs, but until BYU does somethin nationally, they can't talk about being a powerhouse. I am watchin Gonzaga now, and the announcer has BYU #3 in the west-now go prove it. Sure, you beat Louisville (without their star), and played UNC tough (cough, without one of their stars) but what happend then doesn't matter now. Win a bloody tourney game so my fellow Ute fans can't call you out on that, then you can have some wiggle room to talk about "storied programs." And don't claim i'm saying Utah played a tougher schedule, I'm not, but it was a huge improvement over last year.

coach | 8:38 p.m. March 10, 2008

Coach of the year shouldnt go to the guy with the best players, it should go to the guy who gets the best out of whatever players he has, i.e. Kruger. Sure, Rose had a great team, but it was full of big time players, had they beaten UNC, and gone undefeated in conference play, then he is a shoe-in. And fyi, and tanking from 20-25 doesn't say much, break the top 20 like the footbal program and that's when it matters.

Petey | 9:14 p.m. March 10, 2008

What matters is how they do in post season. One and done in the big dance and done on Friday in Vegas. Prove me wrong cougs.

parkcity | 11:33 p.m. March 10, 2008

so what will be the ute trash talk when byu actually does win a tournament game?

liloldlobo | 3:40 p.m. March 11, 2008

Sure Cummard had a nice year, the POY was Giddens hands down. He was also the defensive POY look at the stats: steals, blocks and d-boards. Plus at 6'-5" he was a lockdown defender that no one wanted to face. He and Steve Alford made a team with it's worst conference record since 1959 to a contender.
So look at the district awards that minimize the BYU bias present in the conference.

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