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Ivy League Announces Men’s Basketball Postseason Awards

Justin Sears (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images)

Justin Sears (Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images)

 

Yale head coach James Jones and senior forward Justin Sears earned postseason Ivy League honors for the second straight season. The league announced it’s men’s basketball postseason awards on Wednesday.

Jones repeats as Coach of the Year after leading Yale to it’s second straight league title. The Bulldogs will be playing in the NCAA Tournament, for the first time since 1962, after winning the Ivy League title outright this season.

Sears, a Plainfield, NJ native, was named Player of the Year for the second straight season. The Bulldogs forward averages 15.8 points and 7.5 rebounds per game this season, leading Yale into the postseason. Sears is the only player in school history with at least 1,600 career points and 700 career rebounds.

He was also a unanimous selection to the All-Ivy First Team where he joins teammates Makai Mason and Brandon Sherrod. Joining the Yale trio on the First Team are Princeton’s Henry Caruso and Columbia’s Maodo Lo.

Dartmouth forward Evan Boudreaux was named Rookie of the Year and Agunwa Okolie of Harvard took home Defensive Player of the Year honors.

 

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Justin Sears, Yale (Sr., F – Plainfield, N.J.)

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Evan Boudreaux, Dartmouth (Fr., F – Lake Forest, Ill.)

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Agunwa Okolie, Harvard (Sr., G/F – Ajax, Ontario, Canada)

COACH OF THE YEAR
*James Jones, Yale

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
*Maodo Lo, Columbia (Sr., G – Berlin)
Henry Caruso, Princeton (Jr., F – San Mateo, Calif.)
Makai Mason, Yale (So., G – Greenfield, Mass.)
*Justin Sears, Yale (Sr., F – Plainfield, N.J.)
Brandon Sherrod, Yale (Sr., F – Bridgeport, Conn.)

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY^
Cedric Kuakumensah, Brown (Sr., F – Worcester, Mass.)
Grant Mullins, Columbia (Sr., G – Burlington, Ontario, Canada)
Matt Morgan, Cornell (Fr., G – Concord, N.C.)
Evan Boudreaux, Dartmouth (Fr., F – Lake Forest, Ill.)
Zena Edosomwan, Harvard (Jr., F/C – Los Angeles)
Darien Nelson-Henry, Penn (Sr., C – Kirkland, Wash.)
Spencer Weisz, Princeton (Jr., F – Florham Park, N.J.)

HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Alex Rosenberg, Columbia (Sr., F – Short Hills, N.J.)
Agunwa Okolie, Harvard (Sr., G/F – Ajax, Ontario, Canada)
Steven Cook, Princeton (Jr., F – Winnetka, Ill.)
Nick Victor, Yale (Sr., G – Dallas)

*Unanimous Selection
^Second team expanded from five players due to ties in voting

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