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Champaign, Ill. – Sophomore guard Ayo Dosunmu and freshman center Kofi Cockburn picked up more honors on Tuesday, after each collected official Big Ten honors on Monday.
Dosunmu collected U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) All-District V honors as well as first-team All-Big Ten honors from the Associated Press. Monday, Dosunmu was named to the Big Ten media's All-Big Ten first team.
Cockburn was named Big Ten Newcomer of the Year by the Associated Press, one day after earning Big Ten Freshman of the Year, All-Freshman Team and third-team All-Big Ten honors from the conference.
Illini head coach Brad Underwood also got in on the awards train, collecting Big Ten Coach of the Year honors from HoopsHD.com.
Dosunmu, Cockburn and Underwood helped lead No. 21 Illinois to a 21-10 regular season record and fourth-place finish in the Big Ten. Illinois' 13 league wins marked its most since 2005, while the No. 4 Big Ten Tournament seed is its highest since 2009.
Illinois opens Big Ten Tournament play in the quarterfinal round on Friday at 1:30 p.m. CDT on BTN.
• USBWA All-District V Team
• First Team All-Big Ten (media, AP) | Second-Team All-Big Ten (coaches)
• Naismith Trophy Midseason Team
• Big Ten Player of the Week (2/24)
• Jay Bilas Co-National Player of the Week (1/27)
• Leads team and ranks fifth in the B1G in scoring at 16.6 ppg
• Has scored at least 9 points in all but one game, with 26 double-figure outings and eight 20+ point performances
• Averaging 19.7 points over the last six games since returning from injury, and 18.1 points over his last 15 games
• During his last 15 games, has scored at least 15 points 13 times and has been the team's leading scorer 10 times
• Top guard in the B1G field goal percentage listings, shooting 48.4% to rank sixth
• Leads team in assists, ranking 11th in B1G with 3.3 apg
• Seventh in the B1G in free throw shooting at 75.5%
• 17 points, 7 assists and game-high 8 assists in win over Iowa, hitting pull-up jumper with :31 left to put Illini up four (3/8)
• Game-high 17 points and hit 3-pointer with 1:28 left and two free throws with :4.5 left to clinch win over Indiana (3/1)
• Game-high 24 points, including floater with 16 seconds left to seal win at No. 9 Penn State (2/18)
• Career-high 27 points and hit game-winning jumper with :00.5 left at Michigan (1/25)
• First career double-double with 18 points and career-high 11 assists in win at Purdue (1/21)
• Game-high 18 points with 7 rebounds in win over Rutgers, scoring Illini's last 8 points in final two minutes (1/11)
• Team-high 18 points with 6 assists and hit stepback 3-pointer with :46 left to clinch win at Wisconsin (1/8)
• Big Ten Freshman of the Year (media & coaches)
• Big Ten Newcomer of the Year (AP)
• Third-Team All-Big Ten (media) | HM All-Big Ten (coaches)
• 7-time Big Ten Freshman of the Week, tying second-most awards in B1G history (11/11, 11/25, 12/9, 12/16, 12/30, 1/13, 1/27)
• Big Ten Player of the Week (11/25)
• 12 double-doubles, ranking fifth among all freshmen nationally and doubling the previous Illini freshman season record
• Second on team and 13th in B1G in scoring at 13.3 ppg
• Sixth in B1G and fourth among all NCAA freshmen in rebounding at 8.8 rpg
• Top rebounding freshman in Illini history and No. 5 freshman scorer in school history
• Highest rebounding average (8.8 rpg) and most double-doubles (12) by an Illini player in the last 10 seasons
• Third in B1G and 23rd in NCAA in offensive rebounds (3.5 rpg)
• Shooting 53.2% from the field and leads Illini with 44 blocked shots (11th in B1G)
• 24 games scoring in double figures, with five 20-point performances
• 12 points and 8 rebounds in win over Iowa (3/8), preserving the victory by blocking Luka Garza's shot with 1 second left
• 15 points and career-high 6 blocked shots in win over Indiana (3/1), with 6 blocks ranking fifth-most in school history
• 11 points and career-high tying 17 boards in win over Rutgers (1/11)
• Career-high 26 points in win over North Carolina A&T (12/29)
• Game-high 18 points and 17 boards in win over The Citadel (11/20), setting Illini single-game freshman rebounding record
• 2020 HoopsHD.com Big Ten Coach of the Year
• 2020 Naismith Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List
• Illinois currently owns the largest turnaround (+10.0) among schools from the six major conferences, and stands eighth across all of Div. I for most improved teams
• Illinois finished fourth in the Big Ten, just one game behind tri-champions Wisconisn, Maryland and Michigan State, after being picked to finish seventh in the preseason media poll
• Illinois has improved 54 spots in kenpom rankings from last year (84) to this year (30), the largest increase of any Big Ten team
• Completely revamped defensive system has the Illini ranked second in kenpom defensive efficiency (97.2) during league play after ranking 11th last season (106.6)
• In all games, Illinois ranks 35th in kenpom defensive efficiency (93.7), an 73-spot improvement over last season's rank of 108th (101.1)
• Illinois' 21 wins in the regular season is the most since 2013 (23-13)
• Illinois went from seven Big Ten wins last year to 13 this year
• Illinois' 13 Big Ten wins is its most since 2005 (15-1)
• Illinois had its first winning record in conference play since 2010 (13-7)
• Illinois is the only team in the country with four road wins over teams currently ranked in the top-35 of the NET
• Illinois reached as high as 20th in kenpom ratings on Feb. 1, the team's best ranking since the end of the 2011 season
• Illinois won seven straight Big Ten games from Jan. 5-30, the longest league win streak for the program since 2005
• Illinois recorded its first win over a top-5 team since 2013 and its first road win over a top-10 Big Ten team since 2008
• Illinois won at Purdue for the first time since 2009, at Wisconsin and at Michigan for the first time since 2010, and at Penn State for the first time since 2014
