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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