While I delivered my personal Big Ten Women’s Basketball honors on Tuesday morning, the Big Ten Conference coaches and media released their awards on Tuesday afternoon and multiple Wisconsin Badgers players received accolades. Most notably, standout sophomore Serah Williams was named First Team All-Big Ten by both coaches and media.
She also earned Defensive Player of the Year (media) and All-Defensive Team (media, coaches) a year after being named to the Big Ten All-Freshman team. The last time a Badger was named to the all-conference first team was back in 2014 when Michala Johnson made the team and you have to go all the way back to 2001 (Tamara Moore) to find the last time a Wisconsin player was named the best defensive player in the conference.