Northland’s Trey Burke is Mr. Basketball

COLUMBUS (AP) — Besides being a great scorer, team leader, big winner and the 2011 Associated Press Mr. Basketball award winner, Columbus Northland’s Trey Burke is one courageous young man.

A University of Michigan signee, the 6-foot-1 point guard wears his maize and blue everywhere around Ohio’s capital city. Needless to say, some people take umbrage at a Michigan fan in the heart of Ohio State country.

Burke makes it three in a row for Northland, with current Ohio State big man Jared Sullinger winning the Mr. Basketball award the past two seasons. It’s the first time that any high school has produced more than one Mr. Basketball.

Burke, the 24th annual Mr. Basketball award winner, averaged 23.9 points a game and has taken his team to a third state tournament.

Read the story in Thursday’s Vindicator and vindy.com.