ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The Missouri Valley Conference announced the 2023-24 season awards on Monday night before Arch Madness begins on Thursday. Bradley was very well represented with four players taking home six total awards.
For the second-straight year, Bradley's Malevy Leons is the league's Defensive Player of the Year. Leons is the first MVC player in the past 33 years (since the 1991-92 season) to record 40+ blocks and 40+ steals in back-to-back seasons -- he has 50 steals and 45 blocks this year after going 52-52 last season. He's the fifth player in school history to win the award, following Adebayo Akinkunle (1998), Jerome Robinson (2001), Patrick O'Bryant (2006) and Dyricus Simms-Edwards (2013).