Matta Earns USBWA Award – Ohio State Buckeyes
3/7/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
March 7, 2006
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Thad Matta, Ohio State head men’s basketball coach, was selected as the United States Basketball Writers Association District V Coach of the Year, the organization announced Tuesday.
Ohio State seniors Terence Dials and Je’Kel Foster also were selected to the All-District V Team. Student-athletes and coaches from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin are eligible in District V.
Matta was named earlier in the day as the 2006 Big Ten Coach of the Year. Dials, a Youngstown, Ohio, native, was named 2006 Big Ten Player of the Year and to the All-Big Ten First Team. Foster (Natchez, Miss./Natchez) made the All-Big Ten second team (coaches) and was a third team honoree on the media ballot.
The Buckeyes (23-4) are the No. 1 seed in the 2006 Big Ten Tournament this week in Indianapolis. Ohio State, the outright Big Ten champions in regular-season play, open the conference tournament at noon Friday vs. either No. 8 seed Penn State or No. 9 seed Northwestern. The game will be televised nationally by ESPN.
| USBWA 2005-06 MEN’S ALL-DISTRICT V TEAM DISTRICT V (OH, IN, IL, MI, MN, WI) |
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| Player of the Year | |||||
| Dee Brown, Illinois | G | 6-0 | 185 | Sr. | Maywood, Ill. |
| All-District Team | |||||
| Maurice Ager, Michigan State | G | 6-5 | 202 | Sr. | Detroit, Mich. |
| Shannon Brown, Michigan State | G | 6-4 | 205 | Jr. | Maywood, Ill. |
| Paul Davis, Michigan State | C | 6-11 | 270 | Sr. | Rochester, Mich. |
| Terence Dials, Ohio State | F/C | 6-9 | 260 | Sr. | Youngstown, Ohio |
| Je’Kel Foster, Ohio State | G | 6-3 | 210 | Sr. | Natchez, Miss. |
| Eric Hicks, Cincinnati | F | 6-6 | 245 | Sr. | Greensboro, N.C. |
| Daniel Horton, Michigan | G | 6-3 | 205 | Sr. | Cedar Hill, Texas |
| Steve Novak, Marquette | F | 6-10 | 220 | Sr. | Brown Deer, Wis. |
| Alando Tucker, Wisconsin | F | 6-5 | 205 | Jr. | Lockport, Ill. |
| Coach of the Year | |||||
| Thad Matta, Ohio State |
