2024-25 Preseason All-Big Ten Basketball Team Announced
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The players included on the 2024-25 preseason All-Big Ten team have been announced. A total of 10 players from the conference were included on the list, with Purdue guard Braden Smith being the only unanimous selection.
The Big Ten's announcement came on Tuesday, a day before the men's and women's basketball teams arrive in Chicago for Big Ten Media Days.
Below are the 10 Big Ten basketball players that received preseason all-conference accolades.
- Oumar Ballo, Indiana Hoosiers
- Payton Sandfort, Iowa Hawkeyes
- Dawson Garcia, Minnesota Golden Gophers
- Brooks Barnhizer, Northwestern Wildcats
- Bruce Thornton, Ohio State Buckeyes
- Jackson Shelstad, Oregon Ducks
- Ace Baldwin Jr., Penn State Nittany Lions
- Braden Smith, Purdue Boilermakers*
- Dylan Harper, Rutgers Scarlet Knights
- Great Osobor, Washington Huskies
*unanimous All-Big Ten selection
Additionally, Smith was named the Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year. The junior guard is coming of a sophomore campaign in which he averaged 12.0 points, 7.5 assists and 5.8 rebounds per game. Purdue finished with a 34-5 record, won a Big Ten regular season title and reached the National Championship Game.
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Dustin Schutte is the publisher of Purdue Boilermakers on SI and has spent more than a decade working in sports journalism. His career began in 2013, when he covered Big Ten football. He remained in that role for eight years before working at On SI to cover the Boilermakers. Dustin graduated from Manchester University in Indiana in 2010, where he played for the men's tennis team.
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