• 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 nation’s top amateur athlete
• Missed the first 13 games of the season with a stress fracture in his right foot

Career

• Michigan State’s and Big Ten’s all-time assist leader (811), one of only 22 players in NCAA history to record 800 assists
• Michigan State’s 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 he’s spending too much extra time in the gym. I told my staff that life is not going to be as good when he’s not around. I’ll figure out then if I can coach. There are just not many like him."
- MSU coach Tom Izzo