Hummel Named to First Team All-Big Ten; Purdue Men’s Basketball Brings Home Bevy Of Conference Honors

In the wake of one of the finest team seasons in Boilermaker basketball history, five Purdue players and head coach Matt Painter were recognized with individual accolades on Monday as the Big Ten office announced its postseason honors.

Purdue was the only team to place two players on the All-Big Ten first team, as both the coaches and media voted juniors Robbie Hummel and E’Twaun Moore to the top squad. The pair of selections marked just the 15th time in program history, and first since 1988, that two Boilermakers have claimed first-team All-Big Ten honors in the same season.

A three-time all-conference pick overall, Hummel was named to the first team for the second time in his career on Monday, making him just the 21st player in Purdue history to garner multiple first-team All-Big Ten honors. Despite suffering a season-ending knee injury on Feb. 24, he currently leads the league in free throw percentage (.902), and ranks fourth in defensive rebounds (5.3) sixth in both rebounds (6.9) and blocked shots (1.0) and seventh in points (15.7) per game.

The Valparaiso, Ind., native posted eight double-doubles on the year, led Purdue in scoring eight times and paced the team in rebounds on 13 occasions. He had a streak of 20-consecutive games with at least 10 points during the campaign, and set a program record in the early stages of the season by making 36-consecutive free throws.

Hummel also broke the 1,000-point and 500-rebound milestones for his career during the season, becoming just the 19th player in program history to reach both markers. He was named a finalist for the Oscar Robertson Trophy, and was also included on the midseason watch lists for the Wooden Award and the Naismith Trophy.

While Moore also earned his third-career all-Big Ten accolade on Monday, the announcement marked his first first-team selection after claiming spots on the second team in each of his first two seasons at Purdue. The Boilermakers’ scoring leader with an average of 16.7 points per game that ranks sixth in the league, Moore has reached the 500-point mark for the second year in a row, and has a chance to move onto the program’s single-season scoring list with a strong postseason showing.

Moore, who had a streak of 28-straight games in double figures during the season that stands as the longest in Painter’s tenure, has led Purdue in scoring and assists 14 times on the year, and is on pace to become just the third player in program history to lead the Boilermakers in points and assists in the same season. He has also scored 20 or more points nine times this season en route to surpassing the 1,000-career point mark.

A native of East Chicago, Ind., Moore elevated his play in Big Ten action as a junior, ranking fifth in scoring (17.2), sixth in steals (1.4), 10th in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.2), 11th in assists (3.1) and 15th in both field goal percentage (.472) and three-point field goal percentage (.384) in league play.

Moore was also honored for his work in the classroom this season, collecting second-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America honors in February.

Junior forward/center JaJuan Johnson was honored twice on Monday, earning second-team All-Big Ten honors from the coaches and media, and garnering his second-straight nod to the Big Ten All-Defensive Team. The Indianapolis native’s second-team honor is the second all-league award of his career, adding to the first-team plaudits that he received a year ago.

The team leader with eight double-doubles on the year, Johnson ranks fifth in the league in rebounds (7.2) and 10th in scoring (14.9), while pacing the league with an average of 2.0 blocks per game in Big Ten play. He has 21 multi-block games on the season, leading the Boilers in that category 22 times, and earned two Big Ten Player of the Week honors over the course of the campaign.

The Boilermakers’ leading rebounder and third-leading scorer, Johnson has also joined Hummel in Purdue’s 1,000-point/500-rebounds club this season, becoming the 20th member of the elite fraternity.

Perhaps the team’s most recognizable player, senior guard Chris Kramer was its most decorated on Monday, taking home four postseason awards. In addition to a second-straight honorable mention All-Big Ten honor to give him three for his career, Kramer also earned his second Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year award, his fourth-straight nod to the Big Ten All-Defensive Team and was Purdue’s honoree for the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award.

Kramer is the second Boilermaker, and only the fifth player in league history, to secure Defensive Player of the Year honors twice in his career, and the only player in the history of the squad to earn Big Ten All-Defensive Team honors in each of his four collegiate seasons. Kramer was also the only unanimous selection to the All-Defensive Team.

The Huntington, Ind., native is Purdue’s career steals leader, and ranks fifth in the Big Ten history, with 265 thefts in the Old Gold & Black. He ranks second among active Division I players with 76 multi-steal games and third with 265 total steals, while registering at least one steal in 88 of his last 96 games. The consummate lockdown defender, only five of his primary defensive assignments this season have finished with a positive assist-to-turnover ratio, while 13 have turned the ball over at least four times under his watch.

Kramer’s defensive prowess was on display in the Boilers’ win at Penn State on Saturday, as he tallied four steals to help Purdue capture a share of its first Big Ten crown in 14 years. His average of 1.7 steals per contest ranks fourth in Big Ten play, and fifth in the league’s overall rankings.

Hummel, Kramer and Moore all earned their third-straight All-Big Ten accolades on Monday, becoming just the 11th, 12th and 13th players, respectively, in school history to accomplish that feat. Purdue’s four total Big Ten selections on both the coaches’ and media teams tied for the most in the conference, while the Boilermakers were the only team in the league to place two on the All-Defensive Team.

While one group of Purdue players was adding to its list of career accolades, another Boilermaker was picking up his first conference honor, as guard Kelsey Barlow was named to the All-Freshman Team.

In addition to his averages of nearly four points, three rebounds and two assists per game, the Indianapolis product has made a name as Purdue’s all-important “jammer,” hounding opposing ball handlers and providing the point of attack for the Boilers’ ballhawking defense.

Barlow’s selection marks the third year in a row that Purdue has landed a first-year player on the Big Ten All-Freshman Team.

The architect of Purdue’s successful season, Painter was also honored on Monday as the coaches’ pick for Big Ten Coach of the Year, his second in the last three seasons. Coupled with legendary Purdue head coach Gene Keady’s seven Big Ten Coach of the Year honors, Boilermaker coaches have now won the award a league-best nine times.

Painter, who is in his fifth season at the helm of his alma mater’s program, has presided over one of the finest seasons in program history in 2009-10. In addition to claiming a share of its first Big Ten crown since 1996, Purdue put together a 26-4 regular season that ties for the second-best in program history. The Boilermakers equaled the best start in program history with a 14-0 run to open the campaign, ripped off a 10-game winning streak in conference play, won 12 of their last 13 regular-season games overall and ended the regular-season on a seven-game road winning streak.

The Muncie, Ind., native also became the third-fastest coach in program history, and just the sixth overall, to win 100 games at Purdue.

The second-seeded Boilermakers will open Big Ten Tournament play against either Northwestern or Indiana at 6:30 p.m. ET on Friday. The game will be televised live on Big Ten Network, and can be heard over the radio waves on the Purdue Sports Network.