For the second straight season, Marquette senior guard Markus Howard was chosen unanimously for the All-BIG EAST First Team, the league announced Sunday afternoon.
This is the first time a MU player has been named first team all-conference in consecutive seasons since Travis Diener was an All-Conference USA First Team honoree back in 2003-04 and 2004-05.
The nation’s leading scorer averages 27.8 points per game. The 5-foot-11 guard also possesses two BIG EAST career records with 1,587 points and 245 3-pointers. Howard averaged 28.7 points during conference play, which is the best since Boston College’s Troy Bell scored 27.