BATON ROUGE — Glen Davis, who helped lead LSU to its first Final Four appearance in 20 years, has been named Louisiana’s Men’s Basketball Player of the Year, the Louisiana Sports Writer’s Association announced this weekend.
LSU head coach John Brady was named the state’s coach of the year after guiding the Tigers to a 27-9 overall mark, a berth in the Final Four and the outright Southeastern Conference title with a 14-2 record.
LSU’s Tyrus Thomas, the MVP of the NCAA Atlanta Regional, is the freshman of the year for Louisiana, while Northwestern State’s Luke Rogers, who helped the Demons to their first round upset of third-seeded Iowa in the NCAA Tournament, is the newcomer of the year.
Joining Davis on the All-Louisiana First-Team are Louisiana Tech’s Paul Millsap, Clifton Lee of Northwestern State, Ricky Woods of Southeastern Louisiana and Thomas.
The second team is led by a pair of Mitchells, Darrel from LSU and Dwayne from Louisiana-Lafayette. Brion Rush from Grambling, Peter Cipriano of Southern and Fredricko Payne from LSU-Shreveport round out the second team.
Louisiana-Lafayette’s Michael Southall leads the third team. He is joined on the third team by LSU’s Tasmin Mitchell, Northwestern State’s Jermaine Wallace, McNeese State’s J.T. Williams and Tulane’s Quincy Davis.
2006 Men’s Basketball — All-Louisiana
First Team
Player (Votes) School Stats
Glen Davis LSU 18.6 ppg, 9.7 rpg
Paul Millsap Louisiana Tech 19.7 ppg, 13.3 rpg
Clifton Lee Northwestern State 14.2 ppg, 6.4 rpg
Tyrus Thomas LSU 12.3 ppg, 9.2 rpg
Ricky Woods Southeastern Louisiana 17.8 ppg, 10.9 rpg
Second Team
Darrel Mitchell LSU
Dwayne Mitchell Louisiana-Lafayette 16.6 ppg, 8.2 rpg
Brion Rush Grambling 25.8 ppg, 7.0 rpg
Peter Cipriano Southern 10.2 ppg, 8.5 rpg
Fredricko Payne LSU-Shreveport 20.0 ppg
Third Team
Michael Southall Louisiana-Lafayette 15.0 ppg, 8.0 rpg
Tasmin Mitchell LSU 11.4 ppg, 5.6 rpg
Jermaine Wallace Northwestern State 9.8 ppg, 3.0 rpg
J.T. Williams McNeese State 16.0 ppg, 5.6 rpg
Quincy Davis Tulane 13.1 ppg, 5.8 rpg
Coach of the Year
John Brady (LSU)
Player of the Year
Glen Davis (LSU)
Newcomer of the Year
Luke Rogers (Northwestern State)
Freshman of the Year
Tyrus Thomas (LSU)