NABC names Green nation's top player, Izzo top coach

All Anthony Davis everything.

Once Kentucky reached the Final Four and Davis started to win every national player of the year award, I didn't think Draymond Green had a chance. But if there was an organization that was going to honor Green, it was going to the coaches.

Sunday night, the National Association of Basketball Coaches named Green the nation's top player and Tom Izzo the nation's top coach. Green becomes the third Spartan to win a national player of the year award, joining Scott Skiles (1986, Basketball Times) and Shawn Respert (1995, NABC, Sporting News).

Earlier this season, I made the case that the national player of the year race had three candidates, not two.  Most places seemed to think it finished as a one-man race as Davis won every national award and was nearing a clean sweep. But the coaches went with the coach on the floor; the guy who did everything.

For Izzo, this is the fifth season he has won national coach of the year honors.

Here is the release from MSU: