South Dakota State’s Mike Daum was selected as The Summit League Men’s Basketball Player of the Year in a vote of the league’s nine head coaches, sports information directors and select media members.
Regular season league champion South Dakota was honored with the Coach of the Year (Craig Smith) and Transfer of the Year (Matt Mooney) awards.
Omaha’s Tra-Deon Hollins earned the Defensive Player of the Year honor for the second consecutive season while North Dakota State’s Dexter Werner collected the second Sixth Man of the Year award of his career. Oral Roberts’ Emmanuel Nzekwesi was named Freshman of the Year.
Daum is the second Jackrabbit Player of the Year selection (Nate Wolters, 2012-13) after averaging a Summit-best 27.8 points per intraleague contest. His overall scoring average of 24.9 points per game ranks second in NCAA Division I and is currently the fifth-best figure in league history and best since 2011-12.
Smith guided the Coyotes to their first Summit League title, winning it outright after being tabbed seventh in the preseason poll.
Mooney led the Coyotes and ranked third in The Summit with 21.1 points per league contest after transferring from Air Force. Defensively, he ranked second with 2.6 steals per game.
Joining Daum, Hollins and Mooney as first team All-Summit selections are South Dakota’s Tyler Flack (18.2 points per game in nine league contests), Fort Wayne’s John Konchar (league-leader in rebounding with 9.7 per league contest and three-point field goal percentage at 59.6 percent), and North Dakota State’s Paul Miller (20.1 points per league game).
