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1999-2000
John Wooden All-American, Sporting News first-team All-American, USBWA, NABC and Associated Press second-team All-American
NCAA Midwest Regional MVP, averaging 16.0 points and 4.3 rebounds
Big Ten Tournament Most Outstanding Player, averaging 18.0 points and 5.7 rebounds
Big Ten Player of the Year as selected by the league’s coaches
First-Team All-Big Ten Selection by both the media and coaches
Michigan State’s leading scorer (16.6 ppg)
Also leads MSU in scoring (17.2 ppg) and rebounding (7.4) in conference games
The only Big Ten player to rank among the top 10 in scoring (5th, 17.2 ppg), rebounding (4th, 7.4), field-goal percentage (5th, .457) and three-point field-goal percentage (8th, .373) in conference games
First in the Big Ten in overall three-point shooting (.435)
Four 25+ point games, including a career-high 32 vs. Michigan (2/1), 31 vs. North Carolina (12/1), 29 vs. Iowa (1/8) and 26 vs. Ohio State (2/15)
Two-time Big Ten Player of the Week (Jan. 10 and Feb. 7)
Member of NABC District 11 first team
One of 15 finalists for Naismith Male Collegiate Player of the Year
One of 12 finalists for USBWA Player of the Year
Michigan State’s leading scorer in 20 of 37 games, scoring in double figures in all but three games
Seven double-doubles
Career
Ninth place on MSU’s career scoring chart (1,542 points)
MSU’s all-time games played leader
Fifth place on the MSU all-time three-point field goal chart (142)
Fifth place on the MSU career three-point field goal attempts list (371)
Seventh place on the MSU all-time three-point field goal percentage list (.383)
1999 All-Big Ten despite starting only one conference game - the first sixth man to earn first-team all-league honors in a major conference
1999 USBWA All-District V
Named Outstanding Player of the 1999 NCAA Midwest Regional
72 double-figure scoring games, including 14 20-point performances
10 double-doubles
"He’s one of the five best players in the country. The only reason people aren’t saying that is because he doesn’t have gaudy statistics."
- UConn coach Jim Calhoun
PETERSON’S CAREER STATISTICS
Year
GP/GS
Min./Avg
FG-FGA
FG%
3 PT FG-FGA
FG%
FT- FTA
FT%
REB
AVG
PF/D
A
BL
ST
PTS
AVG
1995-96
4/0
12/ 3.0
1-1
1.000
0-0
.000
0-1
.000
3
0.8
2/0
0
0
0
2
0.5
1996-97
29/18
518/17.9
72-166
.434
16-59
.271
36-51
.706
97
3.4
60/1
18
6
19
196
6.8
1997-98
27/0
503/18.6
81-182
.445
23-69
.333
32-58
.552
94
3.5
61/2
24
3
21
217
8.0
1998-99
38/4
907/23.9
190-343
.554
22-59
.373
114-140
.814
216
5.7
97/4
36
22
33
516
13.6
1999-00
37/36
1071/28.9
204-440
.464
80-184
.435
128-166
.771
226
6.1
73/0
44
11
44
616
16.6
Totals
135/58
3011/22.3
548-1132
.484
142-371
.383
310-416
.745
636
4.7
287/7
122
42
117
1542
11.4
PETERSON’S CAREER STATS VS. FINAL FOUR OPPONENTS
Team
G
Min/Avg
FG-FGA
Pct.
3FG-3FGA
Pct.
FT-FTA
Pct.
Reb/Avg
Ast/Avg
Pts/Avg
Wisconsin
10
232/23.2
30-72
.412
9-23
.391
29-37
.784
35/3.5
4/0.4
98/9.8
North Carolina
2
53/26.5
15-29
.517
4-9
.444
6-9
.667
9/4.5
3/1.5
40/20.0
PETERSON’S CAREER NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME-BY-GAME STATS
