BUFFALO, NY – Seniors Nick Perkins and Dontay Caruthers were both honored by the Mid-American Conference on Tuesday afternoon as Perkins earned his third straight MAC Sixth Man of the Year award, while Caruthers was named the MAC's Defensive Player of the Year for the second time in three years.
Perkins becomes the first Division I player in the nation to ever earn Sixth Man of the Year honors three times. A first-team All-MAC selection, Perkins was most recently named the national sixth man of the year by Bleacher Report on Monday.