Indiana University Athletics
Zeisloft Earns Big Ten Medal of Honor
4/25/2016 10:20:00 PM | Men's Basketball
BLOOMINGTON, Indiana - Indiana University basketball player Nick Zeisloft will be the Hoosiers male recipient of Big Ten Medal of Honor given annually to a male and female at each Big Ten school. The award is given to a person who strives for excellence in both athletics and academics.
He received the recognition at the Spirit of Indiana Showcase which was held Monday evening at the IU Auditorium.
A product of Lyons Township High School in Illinois, Nick is a graduate transfer who came to Indiana from Illinois State prior to the 2014-15 season. He was a key contributor to the Hoosiers 2016 Big Ten Championship team. He appeared in every game the past two years and was regarded as one of the top three-point shooters in the Big Ten and in the country. His 43.5 percent career accuracy from long distance is the third highest of any Hoosier player over the past 20 seasons. He averaged 6.6 points a game in two seasons and has made more than 200 three-point field goals during his collegiate career. He will receive his master's degree in the Kelley School of Business next week. He earned Academic All-Big Ten honors and has a 3.5 grade point average.
The Big Ten, the nation's oldest collegiate conference, commemorates the 101st anniversary of a very unique tradition - the Big Ten Medal of Honor. The conference's most exclusive award was the first of its kind in intercollegiate athletics to recognize academic and athletic excellence. The Big Ten Medal of Honor was first awarded in 1915 to one student-athlete from the graduating class of each university who had "attained the greatest proficiency in athletics and scholastic work." Big Ten schools currently feature almost 9,500 student-athletes, but only 28 earn this prestigious award on an annual basis. In the 101 years of the Medal of Honor, almost 1,400 student-athletes have earned this distinction.
He received the recognition at the Spirit of Indiana Showcase which was held Monday evening at the IU Auditorium.
A product of Lyons Township High School in Illinois, Nick is a graduate transfer who came to Indiana from Illinois State prior to the 2014-15 season. He was a key contributor to the Hoosiers 2016 Big Ten Championship team. He appeared in every game the past two years and was regarded as one of the top three-point shooters in the Big Ten and in the country. His 43.5 percent career accuracy from long distance is the third highest of any Hoosier player over the past 20 seasons. He averaged 6.6 points a game in two seasons and has made more than 200 three-point field goals during his collegiate career. He will receive his master's degree in the Kelley School of Business next week. He earned Academic All-Big Ten honors and has a 3.5 grade point average.
The Big Ten, the nation's oldest collegiate conference, commemorates the 101st anniversary of a very unique tradition - the Big Ten Medal of Honor. The conference's most exclusive award was the first of its kind in intercollegiate athletics to recognize academic and athletic excellence. The Big Ten Medal of Honor was first awarded in 1915 to one student-athlete from the graduating class of each university who had "attained the greatest proficiency in athletics and scholastic work." Big Ten schools currently feature almost 9,500 student-athletes, but only 28 earn this prestigious award on an annual basis. In the 101 years of the Medal of Honor, almost 1,400 student-athletes have earned this distinction.
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