Long Beach State's James Ennis has been named the 2013 Big West Player of the Year. This marks the third straight season LBSU has won the top award, with Casper Ware winning as a junior and senior.

Joining Ennis on the All-Big West First team is teammate Mike Caffey, Cal Poly's Chris Eversley, Corey Hawkins of UC Davis, Hawaii's Christian Standhardinger and UC Santa Barbara's Alan Williams.

Will Davis II won Big West Defensive Player of the Year, while Hawaii's Isaac Fotu and UC Irvine's Alex Young shared Freshman of the Year honors.

The Indiana Pacers have reassigned Miles Plumlee and Orlando Johnson to the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Indiana’s NBA Development League affiliate.  

Plumlee re-joins the Mad Ants following four previous assignments when he played in six games and averaged 14.7 points, 11.2 rebounds and 33.0 minutes.  He has appeared in six games for the Pacers this season, averaging 1.0 points, 1.3 rebounds and 3.7 minutes.   

Johnson (6-5, 220, UC-Santa Barbara) has appeared in three games for Indiana this season. In his previous two assignments with Fort Wayne, Johnson averaged 22.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals. 

Ken Pomeroy has identified three players who received rotation minutes last season, but could have a breakout 12-13 campaign when their minutes increase.

Quinn Cook of Duke, Alan Williams of UC Santa Barbara and Davante Gardner of Marquette are his three candidates.

Cook played just 12 minutes per game last season as he as behind Austin Rivers on the Blue Devils' depth chart. Cook had an offensive rating of 118.

Williams was a late bloomer out of high school and averaged 17 minutes last season. Williams is an active rebounder and shotblocker.

Gardner averaged 19 minutes per game in his sophomore season as his role was limited behind the now departed Jae Crowder and Darius Johnson-Odom.