Michigan forward Yaxel Lendeborg celebrates after a Wolverines' win over Iowa last Thursday in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP photo)

ROSEMONT, Ill. (AP) — Michigan’s Yaxel Lendeborg has been selected as the Big Ten player of the year by the conference’s coaches and media members.

The Big Ten announced Lendeborg’s selection on Tuesday, adding that the league’s coaches and media chose Illinois’ Keaton Wagler as freshman of the year. The coach-of-the-year balloting was a split decision, with the coaches choosing Nebraska’s Fred Hoiberg while the media selected Michigan’s Dusty May.

The conference’s selections were revealed the same day The Associated Press announced its All-Big Ten team, as chosen by a panel of 16 media members. The AP panel chose Lendeborg as player of the year, Wagler as freshman of the year and May as coach of the year.

Purdue’s Braden Smith is an AP All-Big Ten first-team selection for a third straight year. He is joined on the first team by Michigan State’s Jeremy Fears Jr., Northwestern’s Nick Martinelli, Wagler and Lendeborg, who was a unanimous first-team pick.

Fears has been the catalyst for Michigan State, having scored in double figures each of the last 19 games and in 25 of 37 for his career. His 281 assists are second-most in a single season in MSU history.

Big Ten coaches also selected Michigan’s Aday Mara as defensive player of the year and Nebraska’s Braden Frager as sixth man of the year. Wisconsin’s Sharif Chambliss was chosen as the Howard Moore assistant coach of the year.

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This story has been corrected to show that the last name of the Big Ten defensive player of the year is Aday Mara, not Mar.

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