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Burton A NABC Second Team All-District Selection

Burton adds to sophomore awards collection

Kansas City, Mo. – The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) announced the 2024-25 Division I All-District Teams and Coaches of the Year on Tuesday morning. Notre Dame sophomore guard Markus Burton picked up another accolade after being named to the Great Lakes District Second Team. NABC-member coaches across NCAA Division I vote on the All-District honors. 

Burton is coming off a Second Team All-ACC campaign in which he led the league in scoring, averaging 23.5 ppg. Overall, Burton averaged 21.3 ppg which ranked fifth nationally against Division I players. Burton was voted First-Team All-ACC by the Associated Press. 

Burton dropped 423 points during ACC play which broke his record set as a freshman. He has 772 career points in ACC play which already ranks fifth in program history. 

The Mishawaka native wasn’t just a scoring machine for he averaged a team best 3.0 assists per game and a team best 1.7 steals per game. Burton joined elite company in Ring of Honor legend David Riveers as the only two Irish to average 20+ points and 3+ assists in a season. 

Burton was king of the pull-up jumper. He shot 44.6 percent in the midrange and 46.4 percent in the paint. He also improved this three-point shot, going from 30.0 percent as a freshman to 37.5 percent this past year. 

The NABC introduced a new model for its Division I district alignment this season, with schools arranged by state rather than by conference. The modernized NABC Division I district alignment features 10 geographic regions that each encompass multiple states. Every Division I school in each given state belongs to that state’s corresponding district.

 

Great Lakes District

First Team

Jaden Akins, Michigan State

Dawson Garcia, Minnesota

Vladislav Goldin, Michigan

Kasparas Jakucionis, Illinois

Kam Jones, Marquette

Trey Kaufman-Renn, Purdue

Nick Martinelli, Northwestern

Braden Smith, Purdue

John Tonje, Wisconsin

Danny Wolf, Michigan

 

Second Team

Oumar Ballo, Indiana

Brooks Barnhizer, Northwestern

John Blackwell, Wisconsin

Markus Burton, Notre Dame

Duke Deen, Bradley

Jalen Jackson, Fort Wayne

Jase Richardson, Michigan State

Ray’Sean Taylor, SIUE

Samage Teel, Indiana State

Paul Zilinskas, IU Indy

 

Coach of the Year: Tom Izzo, Michigan State

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