Michigan State junior Keith Appling was named a finalist for the Bob Cousy Award today. The award annually is given to the nation’s top point guard.
Other finalists include Michigan’s Trey Burke, Ohio State’s Aaron Craft, Louisville’s Peyton Siva, Missouri’s Phil Pressey, Miami’s Shane Larkin, Syracuse’s Michael Carter-Williams, Baylor’s Pierre Jackson, N.C. State’s Lorenzo Brown, Oklahoma State’s Marcus Smart, South Dakota State’s Nate Wolters and St Mary’s College’s Matthew Dellavedova.
Appling, who is expected to play Saturday against Purdue, is averaging 14.0 points and 4.2 assists and 3.7 rebounds this season. He’s shooting 42.9 percent from the field and 35.6 percent from 3-point range. His clutch play has helped the Spartans enter Saturday’s contest in a three-way tie for first place in the Big Ten with Michigan and Indiana (Hoosiers lost at the buzzer to Illinois tonight).
Fans can vote for the Cousy Award here.
A few other news items.
* Johnny Adams, Le’Veon Bell, William Gholston and Dion Sims were among those invited to the NFL’s scouting combine. The complete list of participants is here.
Gholston grades out the highest of the group with a mark of 74.1 and compares to Cory Redding in the analysis at NFL.com. Bell has a grade at 71.2 and compares to LeGarrette Blount. Adams grade out at 68.1 and compares to Jabari Greer. Sims has a 68 grade and compares to Scott Chandler.
* The Great Lakes Loons, the Dodgers’ single-A affiliate based in Midland, is hosting a Michigan Legends Series this summer and a few with Michigan State ties will be part of it. Steve Garvey, Jud Heathcote and Greg Kelser are each part of the series.
Garvey will make his appearance on Wednesday, June 12.Heathcote and Kelser will appear in Midland on Wednesday, Aug. 21.
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1st Congrats to KA!
2nd: the only difference between Bill Walton calling a UCLA game and Duckie V calling a Duck game is that Walton’s voice isn’t quite as irritating.
Walton doesnt hide why he is a homer , Dickie V does thats the diffeance.
I know Torico is from ANN ARROGANCE but he can hardly keep it in his pants when he does Paris bball games, they shouldn’t let him.
The thing I like the most about Appling’s stats is the increase in assists….he’s gonna get his points, no doubt, but to see the assists rising is a good indicator of how he’s settling into that Point Guard position.
Keep up the good work Appling……Go Green!!
What’s gonna be great is this weekend after MSU beats Purdue, Paris loses to Wis. and IU loses to O$U, MSU will be in first place by themselves ! Marky Mark won’t know what to do !
What ever happened to the janitor? Tough to loose the extra cash with heating bills.
must have bailed after their crappy ftball season
It was depressing to see MOO UUUU play in a BCS game, and not UM!
if I had that team, I would have been disappointed too !
Pretty sure the thread count dropped to the point where it was not worth their time.
UM will be number one in the big and number ! in the nation after Saturday!!
who won the wisconsin game ?
HAHAHAHAHHH
Remember when it seemed like a big deal beating Kansas?
Still a better win than anything Paris has….
Please note that the janitor has gone back to stall 3 to clean out toilets after Paris loses to Whisky whom we beat on the same court in regulation. We also managed to beat the Acorns at our place in in regulation while it took Paris OT and IU loses are self explanatory. The woofing shall continue till Tuesday and then all the good little Paris Hilton’s will be quiet until we go to that hole that is their building, where we will school them again.
very professional Marine, I like it
Did anyone see the Cameron Crazies chanting “How’s your Grandma?” while the NC State player was at the free throw line, who just recently lost his grandma and was very close to her. And some people thought the Izzone was bad for going after Robbie Hummel…
Vitale will ignore that one, too much money at stake.
If true, that is pathetic and Coach K should chide the fans for it.
Also, difference was Izzo talked to the izzone about being classy, coach K won’t do a damn thing to the cameron crazies