mateencleaves
| Mateen Cleaves #12 €¢ Guard €¢ Senior 6-2 ï ¿ ½ 205 Flint, Mich. Northern HS €¢ All-America Candidate |  |
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- Wooden All-American, Sporting News All-American, Associated Press second-team All-American, NABC third-team All-American
- First-Team All-Big Ten, All-Big Ten Tournament team, All-Midwest Regional team
- Set school and Big Ten single-game record with 20 assists against Michigan (3/4)
- Leads the Big Ten with 7.8 assists per conference game
- Averaging a team-high 32.4 minutes, 12.5 points and 7.5 assists in his 22 starts
- Four 19+ point games, including 24 vs. Ohio State (2/15), 22 vs. Indiana (2/26), 21 vs. Utah (3/18) and 19 vs. Michigan (2/1)
- Recorded double figures in assists against Michigan (20 assists, 3/4) Illinois (12, 1/30) and Penn State (10, 2/23)
- Big Ten Player of the Week on Feb. 21
- Member of NABC District 11 first team
- One of 15 finalists for Naismith Male Collegiate Player of the Year
- One of 10 finalists for the James Sullivan Award, given to the nationï ¿ ½s top amateur athlete
- Missed the first 13 games of the season with a stress fracture in his right foot
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Career
- Michigan Stateï ¿ ½s and Big Tenï ¿ ½s all-time assist leader (811), one of only 22 players in NCAA history to record 800 assists
- Michigan Stateï ¿ ½s all-time steals leader (193)
- Ranks 11th on the Big Ten career steals list
- Ranks 10th on the MSU career scoring list (1,512 points)
- Sixth place on the MSU all-time three-point field goal chart (140)
- 1999 Associated Press, NABC and USBWA first-team All-American
- 1999 USBWA District V Player of the Year
- 1999 Big Ten Coaches Player of the Year
- 1999 Big Ten Tournament MVP
- Set school and Big Ten single-season record with 274 assists in 1998-99
- 1998 USBWA first-team All-American
- 1998 Big Ten Coaches and Media Player of the Year
- 14 career double-doubles
- 72 double-figure scoring games, including 13 20-point performances
- 18 double-figure assist games
"Mateen Cleaves is our hardest worker. Some days I think heï ¿ ½s spending too much extra time in the gym. I told my staff that life is not going to be as good when heï ¿ ½s not around. Iï ¿ ½ll figure out then if I can coach. There are just not many like him."
- MSU coach Tom Izzo
CLEAVESï ¿ ½ 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 |
| 1996-97 | 29/24 | 750/25.9 | 111-277 | .401 | 18-76 | .237 | 57-79 | .722 | 73 | 2.5 | 61/2 | 146 | 4 | 17 | 297 | 10.2 |
| 1997-98 | 30/29 | 1005/33.5 | 161-403 | .400 | 51-152 | .336 | 111-158 | .703 | 75 | 2.5 | 80/1 | 217 | 6 | 73 | 484 | 16.1 |
| 1998-99 | 38/38 | 1185/31.1 | 159-392 | .406 | 42-144 | .292 | 85-108 | .787 | 62 | 1.6 | 78/0 | 274 | 2 | 69 | 445 | 11.7 |
| 1999-00 | 24/22 | 753/31.4 | 101-241 | .419 | 29-81 | .358 | 55-74 | .743 | 40 | 1.7 | 53/0 | 174 | 4 | 34 | 286 | 11.9 |
| Totals | 121/113 | 3693/30.5 | 532-1313 | .405 | 140-453 | .309 | 308-419 | .735 | 250 | 2.1 | 272/3 | 811 | 16 | 193 | 1512 | 12.5 |
CLEAVESï ¿ ½ CAREER NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME-BY-GAME STATS
| Team | Min. | FG-FGA | 3FG-3FGA | FT-FTA | REB | A | PTS |
| Eastern Michigan (3/12/98) | 35 | 7-14 | 2-7 | 4-4 | 2 | 3 | 20 |
| Princeton (3/14/98) | 37 | 9-13 | 3-5 | 6-9 | 9 | 5 | 27 |
| North Carolina (3/19/98) | 39 | 7-21 | 2-9 | 2-3 | 4 | 5 | 18 |
| Mount St. Maryï ¿ ½s (3/12/99) | 25 | 3-8 | 1-4 | 1-1 | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Mississippi (3/14/99) | 37 | 7-14 | 1-4 | 3-4 | 1 | 7 | 18 |
| Oklahoma (3/19/99) | 32 | 3-14 | 0-4 | 3-4 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
| Kentucky (3/21/99) | 37 | 4-11 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 4 | 11 | 10 |
| Duke (3/27/99) | 36 | 5-16 | 2-9 | 0-2 | 3 | 10 | 12 |
| Valparaiso (3/16/00) | 32 | 5-11 | 2-6 | 3-3 | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| Utah (3/18/00) | 36 | 7-14 | 4-7 | 3-4 | 2 | 5 | 21 |
| Syracuse (3/23/00) | 34 | 6-10 | 5-9 | 4-4 | 3 | 2 | 21 |
| Iowa State (3/25/00) | 36 | 5-13 | 1-3 | 7-7 | 7 | 0 | 18 |
| 12-Game Totals | 324 | 52-129 | 11-31 | 35-41 | 73 | 9 | 150 |
| 12-Game Averages | 27.0 | .403 | .355 | .854 | 6.1 | 0.8 | 12.5 |
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