Last season Derrick Walker made the 2nd team for the coaches and honorable mention for the media...I'd assume that in some regard that was due to the fact Derrick's numbers weren't as gaudy as others but you sure as heck had to gameplan for him. Coaches never voted Hunter Dickenson to the first team in the B1G despite how gaudy his numbers were...though he made the media team his last year. Probably the biggest takeaway isn't that one poll is better than the other....it's that there are two polls for the B1G post season and they can be very different.
This last game at Michigan could be fairly important considering how poor that team is defensively and how lumped together all our players are. Really is an argument to make for Mast, Gary, Keisei, and even Brice. Winning and getting that 3rd-4th seed certainly helps as well given that conference standing does matter to some voters.
It's cool if some guys get recognition like this but in some ways it's almost cooler if we have a team as successful as we do with only 3rd team B1G players.