The boys basketball season is behind us, and so we gave you a chance to choose who you thought deserved to be the boys high school basketball Player of the Year by voting in our poll.
You were able to choose from the 11 nominees below, and you voted at either rrstar.com, or below.
The poll stayed open for two weeks.
And the winner is...: Hononegah's Brayden Olson. Hononegah went 21-10 and took fourth in the NIC-10 this season with Olson leading the way. He averaged 16.4 points and 4.4 rebounds, and scored 21 points, including a key 3-pointer that gave Hononegah a lead with 4.8 seconds remaining in a double-overtime victory over Auburn in the regional quarterfinals.
He then earned over 43 percent of the votes in our poll, which was over 15,500 votes. The poll got 35,993 total votes.
Here is a little bit more on the other nominees:
Adam Awender, Eastland
Awender averaged 15 points per game for Eastland, and scored 15 in the IHSA Class 1A state championship game in Champaign. Awender and the Cougars couldn't bring home a title but the senior guard was named an IBCA first-team All-Stater.
Branden Chatman, Guilford
This junior was the NIC-10 MVP who averaged 17.4 points, and the 6-0 guard led Guilford to its third straight NIC-10 title and a 27-6 record.
Christian Cummings, Rockford Christian
Cummings battled through a hand injury late in the year, but still managed to average over 30 points per game down the stretch, including 31 in a loss to Winnebago in the regional final. Rockford Christian became the first team in IHSA history to have a pair of 2,000-point scorers on the same team when both Cummings and Elijah Daugherty surpassed the mark this season.
Amir Danforth, Auburn
Danforth averaged 24.4 points, 3 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.3 steals for an Auburn team that went 19-13 and finished third in the NIC-10. Danforth also drained 111 3-pointers this season.
Cooper Hoffman, Pecatonica
Hoffman broke his foot midway through Pecatonica's sectional final loss to Eastland, which prematurely ended his senior season. Still, the 6-1 point guard and first-team All Stater was a bona fide star all year long, averaging more than 20 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists while shooting over 50 percent from the field.
Parker Krogman, Eastland
Krogman, who averaged just over 15 points and six rebounds this year, finished with a team-high 17 points in the 1A state final, but the Cougars still lost to Chicago Hope and its All Stater Tyjuan Hunter.
Brody Larson, Winnebago
Larson was a standout for one of the teams that went the farthest in the Big Northern Conference. ...
