Adding to a long and growing list of postseason awards, J.J. Redick received the James E. Sullivan Memorial Award, given annually to the nation's top amateur athlete by the Amateur Athletic Union, at a banquet in New York Wednesday night.
With the win, Redick becomes the first men's basketball player to take home the prestigious award since Bill Walton won in 1973. He beat out stiff competition in Texas quarterback Vince Young, and 2005 World Cup Champion skiier Bode Miller.
"I'm thinking to myself I really don't belong in their company," Redick said. "They win world championships and all I do is score."
The announcement of the Sullivan Award comes less than a week after Redick was recognized as the nation's best basketball player with the John R. Wooden Award. The senior had previously garnered several other player of the year awards, including the Associated Press, Naismith, Rupp, Robertson and NABC.
The Sullivan Award, which dates back further than the Heisman Trophy, has been won in the past by the likes of Peyton Manning, Michelle Kwan, Carl Lewis, Florence Griffith-Joyner and Michael Johnson.
Redick is the third men's basketball player to win, along with Walton and Princeton star and former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley.
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