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ROSEMONT, Ill. — Purdue's Braden Smith was named the Big Ten player of the year and Michigan State's Tom Izzo coach of the year by both the league's coaches and the media in voting coordinated by the conference. Smith and Izzo won the same honors from The Associated Press. The coaches voted Penn State's Ace Baldwin Jr. the defensive player of the year, Maryland's Derik Queen the freshman of the year and Illinois' Will Riley the sixth man of the year. The coaches' All-Big Ten first team was made up of Smith, Queen, Nebraska's Brice Williams, Purdue's Trey Kaufman-Renn and Wisconsin's John Tonje.
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