Senior basketball player Nathan Adrian was voted Men’s Basketball Winter Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the Big 12 coaches. The Morgantown native is a graduate school sport management major with a 3.85 GPA and 100 percent participation during his senior season.
Adrian also earned All-Big 12 Defensive Team and All-Big 12 Third Team honors while starting all 37 games and leading the Mountaineers in rebounding. His presence is hard to quantify solely through statistics, but it’s obvious Adrian will be missed next year. He averaged 9.9 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game for the ‘Eers in 2016-17.