Trey Burke said that winning a national championship this season would make it easier for him declare for the NBA draft.

 “It would probably definitely make my decision much easier, which is to leave,” Burke said on the Dan Patrick Show. “Because that’s really today’s culture. If you get that far as a team, you have those opportunities, you definitely have to look into them and make sure you’re making the right decision.

"But that’s just something that I’ll talk over with my family and try to come out with something at the end of the season.”

Burke is projected to be a lottery pick.

Trey Burke has been named the Big Ten Player of the Year, winning both the award voted upon by the Coaches and Media.

Burke was joined on the All-Big Ten First team (Coaches) by teammate Tim Hardaway Jr., Ohio State's Deshaun Thomas, and Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller of Indiana.

On the All-Big Ten Second Team by Michigan State's Keith Appling, Gary Harris and Adreian Payne, Ohio State's Aaron Craft and Wisconsin's Jared Berggren.

Oladipo won Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year, while Harris won Freshman Player of the Year.

While Cody Zeller and Mason Plumlee entered the college basketball season as favorites to win Player of the Year, both have faded out of the likely top-five.

In a straw poll of 64 voters conducted by ESPN, Michigan's Trey Burke, Georgetown's Otto Porter and Indiana's Victor Oladipo received the most votes.

Doug McDermott of Creighton and Gonzaga's Kelly Olynyk Jr. rounded out the top-five.