Sean Kilpatrick was none-too-pleased with AAC voters for picking Shabazz Napier over him for the new conference’s Player of the Year award.
“When you try to bring your team to where they are now and all the numbers do line up and you state the obvious, that’s something that’s very, I would say, diminishing,” Kilpatrick said.
“Everyone knows what it’s supposed to be, but certain things don’t go your way over a whole bunch of votes. That’s something that really hurts a lot because I worked all summer and really all my life to try to get to situations like this and it seems to always get snagged back from me. You’ve just got to use it as motivation. I’m all right.”
Kilpatrick didn’t seem to think much of his winning the league’s Sportsmanship Award.
“I still don’t actually know what it means,” Kilpatrick said. “That’s the crazy thing. I don’t know the definition behind it or anything like that. I guess that’s how the dice rolled and I guess that’s how they felt. It is what it is.”
The irony of a player complaining about not being told he’s the best after winning an award for sportsmanship aside, it’s disheartening that a student-athlete can spend five years at an accredited university like Cincinnati (Kilpatrick redshirted his freshman year), and still not know the definition of “sportsmanship.” Literally, and by his own admission.
While I’m sure that it’s disappointing for Kilpatrick to be overlooked for POY despite leading the league in scoring, he might want to look at some other stats, like FG%, FT%, 3P%, rebounding, steals, and assists, all of which Napier led him in this season.
This is really fantastic. I mean…the ironing is delicious
Shabazz’s response? “He cares so much about that MVP…I don’t care about that. Those guys believe he won it? He can have it.”
He’s so fucking awesome.
“… I worked all summer and really all my life…”
Hey asshole, so did Bazz. And apparently, he worked a little harder at it than you.