MVP Award for 2013. Make your case here.

[BigTexHusker]

MVP - the age old question of what definition does a voter give the award he/she is handing out?  In my book, MVP isn't short for "best player" (though it obviously can be the best player).  I take the acronym literally.  The most VALUABLE player on this team would be the player that's the most costly to lose, in my opinion.

 

The two neediest components we had to have were a big who could defend in the paint and make the rest of the B1G pay a little when their bigs had to defend, and a point guard who could reliably get us into sets and to keep defenses honest with legitimate, consistent offensive threats.

 

In addition to the simple lack of scholarship players, a large part of our depth woes came from only having one legitimate player to fit each of those roles.  Tally was the only PG we had whose ball handling was strong enough to get us into consistent quality sets and be able to get his own shot going to the rim.  Ubel was the only big we had that could even remotely come close to defending the plethora of quality post players seemingly every team in the B1G had.  He also was the only post player with enough offensive threat outside 12 feet to get those shot blockers even close to coming out of the paint.

 

That makes them equal in my eyes.  Both pretty much irreplaceable.  So, I think it comes down to who did their job better, more consistently.  Here I give the nod to Ubel because I feel like he was there giving quality minutes, other than the injury, at the same basic level all season long.  I think Talley was more inconsistent in what he produced.  Without either one for an extended period of time, we would have been in a world of hurt, relatively speaking.

 

Ubel gets my MVP in a close call.

[Mr. Red]

Tally

 

Solid on both ends of the floor.  Out of control, over-reaching, and frustrating at times, but as other posters have said, he was the one taking-and making alot of the difficult shots at the end of games.

 

I just thought to myself "If we had to play this entire season with out either Talley or Ubel, who would I choose?" 

[Red Rum]

Isn't there some other trophy too? I seem to remember in years past that one guy got the MVP and the other possible MVP got some other trophy. I could be wrong and just making stuff up. I do that sometimes to fill gaps in my fading memory.