College Basketball Player of the Year: Evan Turner

Week of March 15, 2010

Before a January ceremony honoring Ohio State's 1960 national championship team, a nervous Evan Turner broke the trophy he was to hand Jerry Lucas. It wouldn't be the last precious item he'd break that belonged to a Buckeyes legend. During a record-setting junior season, "Evan Almighty" piled up a record seven Big Ten player of the week awards despite missing more than four weeks with a fracture in his lower back. He joined Jim Jackson as the only Buckeyes with 1,000 career points, 500 rebounds and 300 assists. He leads the league in scoring and rebounding -- as a point guard. For all of that, Turner joins Lucas, the 1961 and '62 winner, as the only Buckeyes to be named Sporting News' national Player of the Year. Read More