No surprise. He will be the odds-on favorite for next year's trophy as well.

Rest of First Day Awards:

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Lucas Defensive POY and second team all conference

Aher third team all conference and first team all defensive

Braden all newcomer first team

Huge congrats to Larry

Congrats on the players who got honored. It's a shame that Krut did not win it last year. AJ Green had a good year, but last year, as the MVC press release notes, Krut was the first player in conference history to be ranked in the top 5 in scoring (15.1), rebounding (8.1), assists (4.2) and field goal percentage (.563) last year. I think he failed to win last year because of Rambler fatigue due to Custer and Townes winning the previous two years. Better late than never I guess.

http://mvc-sports.com/news/2021/3/2/arc ... -team.aspx

Congrats to Cam! And to Lucas! They deserved the awards last year, imo, but glad to see they earned them in their senior season. Let's hope they get some more hardware to add to their senior trophy case.

So who wins it next year for Loyola? Marquise...come on down!

Depend on who comes back!

I hope we have a Krut mustache and harmonica day next year to honor him and the POY... When my childhood hero. Stan the Man headed to that ballpark in the sky the Cardinals held a harmonica day for him, handed out Stan Musuial harmonicas to everyone in the park along with the music..40,000 people playing Take Me OUt to the Ball Game...was cool.......what would be the song for Krut?

Mine too! I had a 32 oz. Stan Musial Louisville Slugger and a Stan Musial hitting instructional 33 1/3
LP with an album cover featuring Stan in his trademark peekaboo batting stance.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Stan-The-Man-L ... 0930.m5375

There were about a thousand songs from the 1970s about "rambling." One of them has to feature the harmonica.

Perfect.