on february 3, 2011, michigan's zack novak (district 4), northwestern's drew crawford (district 5) and minnesota's blake hoffarber (district 5) were selected by cosida as among the forty academic all-district players, making them finalists for fifteen academic all-american selections later in the month. hoffarber was named as a second team academic all-american. the conference also had 37 academic all-conference team selections.