Postseason accolades were handed out today by the Big Ten Conference for the baseball season. Coach of the year is a familiar person.
Darin Erstad of @Husker_Baseball named 2017 #B1GBaseball Coach of the Year. pic.twitter.com/q4VOl6eHZ6
— Big Ten Baseball (@B1Gbaseball) May 23, 2017
Nebraska HC Darin Erstad was named Big Ten Coach of the Year today, after he led his squad to their first ever Big Ten regular season conference title.
Erstad, who took over the job as his very first head coaching gig, has guided the Huskers to a 34-18-1 record this season. Nebraska’s 16-7-1 conference record gave them the title over Michigan.
Nebraska is the 1 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, which starts tomorrow in Bloomington, Indiana. The Huskers will take on 8 seed Purdue on Wednesday evening to start tournament play.
Currently, the Huskers are set as a 2 seed in D1Baseball.com’s NCAA Tournament seeding. D1 believes the Huskers would be sent to Lubbock to take on Texas Tech, Texas A&M & Bryant.
Several other Husker players were named today on all-B1G teams, as Jake Meyers & Scott Schreiber were named First Team Big Ten. Third team honors went to Angelo Altavlilla & Jake Hohensee. Luke Roskam made the all-Freshman team, while Ben Miller took the conference sportsmanship award handed out to one member of each club.
Player of the Year
JAKE ADAMS, Iowa
Pitcher of the Year
Brian Shaffer, Maryland
Freshman of the Year
Tyler Blohm, Maryland
Coach of the Year
Darin Erstad, Nebraska
All-Big Ten First Team
C – Cole McDevitt, Minnesota
1B – JAKE ADAMS, Iowa
2B – Ako Thomas, Michigan
SS – Michael Brdar, Michigan
3B – Drew Lugbauer, Michigan
OF – Jack Yalowitz, Illinois
OF – Marty Costes, Maryland
OF – Joe Hoscheit, Northwestern
DH – Scott Schreiber, Nebraska
UTIL – Jake Meyers, Nebraska
SP – Brian Shaffer, Maryland
SP – Oliver Jaskie, Michigan
SP – Lucas Gilbreath, Minnesota
RP – Jackson Lamb, Michigan
All-Big Ten Second Team
C – Tyler Cropley, Iowa
1B – Pat McInerney, Illinois
2B – Dan Durkin, Michigan State
SS – Mason McCoy, Iowa
3B – Micah Coffey, Minnesota
OF – Logan Sowers, Indiana
OF – Robert Neustrom, Iowa
OF – Brandon Hughes, Michigan State
DH – Chad Roskelly, Michigan State
UTIL – Matt Lloyd, Indiana
SP – Nick Gallagher, Iowa
SP – Alex Troop, Michigan State
SP – Sal Biasi, Penn State
RP – Brian Glowicki, Minnesota
All-Big Ten Third Team
C – Nick Matera, Rutgers
1B – Toby Hanson, Minnesota
2B – Michael Massey, Illinois
SS – Angelo Altavilla, Nebraska
3B – AJ Lee, Maryland
OF – Craig Dedelow, Indiana
OF – Johnny Slater, Michigan
OF – Dominic Canzone, Ohio State
DH – Chris Folinusz, Rutgers
UTIL – Mike Carter, Rutgers
SP – Pauly Milto, Indiana
SP – Jake Hohensee, Nebraska
SP – Gareth Stroh, Purdue
RP – Mac Lozer, Michigan
All-Big Ten Freshman Team
C – Bryce Bonner, Purdue
1B – MATT GORSKI, Indiana
2B – Michael Massey, Illinois
SS – Jeremy Houston, Indiana
3B – LUKE ROSKAM, Nebraska
OF – Bryce Kelley, Michigan State
OF – DOMINIC CANZONE, Ohio State
OF – Skyler Hunter, Purdue
DH – Casey Dodge, Illinois
UTIL – Jordan Kozicky, Minnesota
SP – TYLER BLOHM, Maryland
SP – Hank Christie, Northwestern
SP – Cal Krueger, Indiana
RP – Tommy Henry, Michigan
Sportsmanship Award Honorees
Anthony Drago, Illinois
Tony Butler, Indiana
Corbin Woods, Iowa
Zach Jancarski, Maryland
Michael Brdar, Michigan
Dan Durkin, Michigan State
Matt Stemper, Minnesota
Ben Miller, Nebraska
Cooper Wetherbee, Northwestern
Jalen Washington, Ohio State
Alex Malinsky, Penn State
Hayden Grant, Purdue
Max Herrmann, Rutgers