Friday, April 20, 2012

2011-2012 Minnesota Hoops Player(s) of the Year

Congrats to Taylor Young and her many fans, who apparently got the word out, and found their way to Minnesota Hoops to vote for her in our 2nd annual Player of the Year vote. Young won the fan balloting with 73 of 254 ballots (28 percent).

Last year's PoY based on the fan balloting, Kevin Love, was this year's runner-up with 62 votes (24 percent).

3rd was Lindsay Whalen with 29 votes (11 percent), followed by:

Rachel Banham was 4th with 23 votes (9 percent)
Tyus Jones was 5th with 20 votes (7 percent).
Seimone Augustus with 19 votes (7 percent)
Ricky Rubio with 13 (5 percent)
James Ellisor with 10 (3 percent)
Nia Coffey with 3 votes (1 percent)
Siyani Chambers with 2 votes (0 percent)

Last year I wrote after the balloting was complete that I was within an eyelash of picking Tyler Nicolai, point guard for St. Thomas' national champions, as my PoY. But Love won the reader poll by a landslide, and so I decided to go with the consensus and pick Love as my PoY.

Keep in mind that I have picked a Minnesota PoY for every season going back to 1900. Check out the list on the post entitled Minnesota Player of the Year. (As of today it is the next post down.)

This year I'm going in a different direction:

Taylor Young is the MnHoops Readers Poll PoY. God bless all of you who made the effort to give her your support in the poll.

But Lindsay Whalen is the official Minnesota PoY and goes on that list of Minnesota PoYs that stretches all the way back to 1900.

Thanks to all who cast 254 ballots this year. Last year we had about 120.

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