Pacific forward Joe Ford is the back-to-back winner of the Big West Defensive Player of the Year award, joined by Tiger teammate Pat Eveland as the Best Sixth Man and UC Davis guard Joe Harden as Best Hustle Player.  The three awards make up the 2009-10 Big West Men's Basketball All-Specialty Team.

The awards were voted on by the conference's nine head coaches, who were not allowed to vote for their own players.  This is the 10th straight year that the Big West has handed out the All-Specialty Team awards.

Ford, a 6-6 senior, has contributed to Pacific's success in every conceivable way.  He led the Tigers with 30 blocked shots and ranked second in steals with 30.  Drawing the opponent's top offensive threat, Ford helped the Tigers to become the Big West leader in scoring defense at 59.9 points per game.  In addition, he dished out a team second-best 80 assists against only 37 turnovers and shot an incredible 64.9% (72 of 111) from the field.  Ford's 5.5 rebounds per game placed him second on the team, and 70 of his165 total rebounds came on the offensive end.  Ford is the first Pacific player to be a repeat all-specialty award winner.

Eveland joined the Tiger program this season out of junior college and made an immediate impact in the lineup.  Appearing in all 30 games off the bench, Eveland provided Pacific with a lethal perimeter presence.  The junior drained 49 three-pointers to rank second on the Tigers and ninth in the Big West with 1.6 threes made per game.  Eveland canned at least three treys in a game on seven occasions, including a 5 of 5 performance from behind the arc against Long Beach State.  Eveland made 9 of 10 shots overall and connected for a career-high 23 points in the win over the 49ers.  The 6-6 forward averaged a team fifth-best 7.8 points per game.  

Harden earned the first-ever All-Specialty award for UC Davis with the Best Hustle Player distinction.  He was a key reason the Aggies topped the Big West in steals, notching 45 takeaways to rank second on the squad and fourth in the conference.  Harden also is noted as one of the league's top rebounders, corraling 7.1 boards per content for fifth overall.  His 14 blocked shots ranks second on UC Davis.  A 6-8 junior guard, Harden scored in double figures in 22 of 28 games, and scoring average of 14.1 points per game is 10th-highest on the Big West leaderboard.

2009-10 BIG WEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Joe Ford, Pacific

2009-10 BIG WEST BEST HUSTLE PLAYER
Joe Harden, UC Davis

2009-10 BIG WEST BEST SIXTH MAN
Pat Eveland, Pacific