More Queen accolades
Queen is the second Terp ever to win a major individual Big Ten player award, following Aaron Wiggins, who took Sixth Man of the Year honors in 2019-20. Queen's first-team all-Big honors marked the second straight season a Terp has earned that distinction after Jahmir Young did it last year. He's the seventh Maryland player to make the First Team since the program joined the conference in 2014-15. Queen dominated all year, winning Big Ten Freshman of the Week five times, the most by any Terp in recent history.
Full list of Big Ten honorees
PLAYER OF THE YEARBraden Smith, Purdue (C/M)
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Ace Baldwin Jr., Penn State
FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR
Derik Queen, Maryland (C/M)
SIXTH MAN OF THE YEAR
Will Riley, Illinois
COACH OF THE YEAR
Tom Izzo, Michigan State (C/M)
HOWARD MOORE ASSISTANT COACH
OF THE YEAR AWARD
Doug Wojcik, Michigan State
FIRST TEAM
Derik Queen, Maryland (C)
Vladislav Goldin, Michigan (M)
Brice Williams, Nebraska (C/M)
TREY KAUFMAN-RENN, Purdue (C/M)
BRADEN SMITH, Purdue (C/M)
JOHN TONJE, Wisconsin (C/M)
SECOND TEAM
Danny Wolf, Michigan (C/M)
Dawson Garcia, Minnesota (C/M)
Nick Martinelli, Northwestern (C/M)
Bruce Thornton, Ohio State (C/M)
Derik Queen, Maryland (M)
Vladislav Goldin, Michigan (C)
THIRD TEAM*
Kasparas Jakucionis, Illinois (C/M)
Ja'Kobi Gillespie, Maryland (C/M)
Jaden Akins, Michigan State (C/M)
Jase Richardson, Michigan State (C/M)
Nate Bittle, Oregon (C/M)
Jackson Shelstad, Oregon (C/M)
Tyler Bilodeau, UCLA (C/M)
Ace Bailey, Rutgers (M)
Dylan Harper, Rutgers (M)
HONORABLE MENTION
Oumar Ballo, Indiana (C/M)
Payton Sandfort, Iowa (C/M)
Julian Reese, Maryland (C/M)
Ace Baldwin Jr., Penn State (C/M)
Ace Bailey, Rutgers (C/M)
Dylan Harper, Rutgers (M)
John Blackwell, Wisconsin (C/M)
Tomislav Ivisic, Illinois (M)
Malik Reneau, Indiana (M)
Brooks Barnhizer, Northwestern (M)
Nate Bittle, Oregon (M)
Jackson Shelstad, Oregon (M)
Yanic Konan Niederhauser, Penn State (M)
Fletcher Loyer, Purdue (M)
Tyler Bilodeau, UCLA (M)
Desmond Claude, USC (M)
Great Osobor, Washington (M)
ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
Kasparas Jakucionis, Illinois
DERIK QUEEN, Maryland
Jase Richardson, Michigan State
Ace Bailey, Rutgers
Dylan Harper, Rutgers
ALL-DEFENSIVE TEAM
Jaden Akins, Michigan State
TJ Bamba, Oregon
Nate Bittle, Oregon
Ace Baldwin Jr., Penn State
Kobe Johnson, UCLA
2023-24 Sportsmanship Award Honorees
Ben Humrichous, Illinois
Anthony Leal, Indiana
Ladji Dembele, Iowa
Selton Miguel, Maryland
Nimari Burnett, Michigan
Nick Sanders, Michigan State
Kadyn Betts, Minnesota
Rollie Worster, Nebraska
Brooks Barnhizer, Northwestern
James Cooper, Oregon
Kalen Etzler,Ohio State
Puff Johnson, Penn State
Caleb Furst, Purdue
Zach Martini, Rutgers
Lazar Stefanovic, UCLA
Harrison Hornery, USC;
Wilhelm Breidenbach, Washington
Markus Ilver, Wisconsin
Queen on the award and Willard on Queen
"I had a smile on my face," Queen said on Wednesday, adding that winning the award was "of course" on his list of goals heading into the season.Willard said this week: "I think the physicality early on kind of caught Derik by surprise, in the Big Ten Conference. And then Derik's been really good for you because Derik brings like this youth and joyfulness about the game that sometimes as a senior you could lose. As you get older, the game becomes more of a business and … you know all my stupid drills and all my stupid talks that I give, like it kind of gets old. For Derik, it's been new. And I think his kind of joyfulness has kind of rubbed off on Ju in a very, very good way. But Derik's had the year he's had because he's got to play alongside one of the most consistent big men in the Big Ten, probably in a long time."
