Aaron Craft Allison Elber, Ohio State

Basketball player Aaron Craft and rower Allison Elber were Ohio State's winners of the Big Ten Medal of Honor on Monday night.

(Ohio State Athletics Department)

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Aaron Craft received one more academic award before finishing off his Ohio State career.

The Buckeyes' senior point guard, a three-time Academic All-American, was one of two winners of Ohio State's Big Ten Medal of Honor on Monday night.

The award is given to one male and one female athlete at each Big Ten school for those who “attained the greatest proficiency in athletics and scholastic work.”

Ohio State's other award winner was Brunswick High grad Allison Elber, a captain of the Buckeyes' nationally-ranked rowing team.

The awards were announced at the school's 47th annual scholar-athlete dinner. There were 511 OSU scholar-athletes honored at the banquet.

But the highest awards were reserved for Craft and Elber. This is the 100th anniversary of the Big Ten Medal of Honor. (Full list of winners from each school)

Craft is the first Ohio State basketball player to win it since Katie Smith in 1996. He's the first member of the men's basketball team to win the award since Jim Cleamons in 1971. Previous members of the men's basketball team to win the award include Bill Hosket in 1968 and Jerry Lucas in 1963.

Elber was the first member of the women's rowing team to earn the athletic department's highest honor for a student-athlete.