Trayce Jackson-Davis and Mackenzie Holmes Named 2022-23 IU Athletes of the Year

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Trayce Jackson-Davis and Mackenzie Holmes have been named the 2022-23 IU Athletes of the Year following their impressive seasons on the basketball court.

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In his senior season, Jackson-Davis averaged 20.9 points, 10.8 rebounds and 4.0 assists per game, leading the Hoosiers to a 23-12 overall record and a No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the program's highest seeding since the 2012-13 season.

Jackson-Davis was also named a consensus first-team All-American, won the Karl Malone Wward for college basketball's best power forward and was a finalist for the Wooden Award, recognizing the best player in the country.

Jackson-Davis finished his career with 2,258 career points, good enough to be the No. 3 all-time leading scorer in the history of Indiana men's basketball. He also graduated as Indiana's all-time leader in rebounds and blocked shots. Jackson-Davis was selected with the No. 57 overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors.

Unlike Jackson-Davis, Holmes will be back in Bloomington for one more season and has a chance at repeating as an IU Athlete of the Year in 2023-24.

Holmes led the Indiana women's basketball team to its second Big Ten regular season title in school history during the 2022-23 season, starring as one of the country's most dominant post threats. The Hoosiers finished the season with a 28-4 record, the best in program history, and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history.

The 6-foot-3 center from Gorham, Maine, averaged 22.3 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per game, while also leading the Big Ten in total field goal percentage at 68.0%. Similar to Jackson-Davis, she was named a consensus first-team All-American and a finalist for the Wooden Award.

Additionally, Holmes took home the first ever Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year trophy in Indiana women's basketball history and was named to an All-Big Ten team for the third year in a row. Holmes was selected to the Big Ten's first team in 2021 and 2023, and to the second team in 2022.

Holmes is using her fifth and final year of eligibility to play one last season in Bloomington in 2023-24. She is currently the fifth all-time leading scorer in Indiana women's basketball history with 1,875 career points, trailing all-time leader Tyra Buss by just 489 points.

After scoring 692 total points during the 2022-23 season, Holmes is on track to surpass Buss and finish her career at IU as the program's all-time leading scorer. She also will start the 2023-24 season as a frontrunner for the Wooden Award alongside Iowa's Caitlin Clark and LSU's Angel Reese.

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