Travis Trice keeps stacking up hardware overseas, and the former Michigan State point guard just added another MVP trophy to an already loaded international résumé.
This week, Trice was named the Most Valuable Player in Puerto Rico’s Baloncesto Superior Nacional, earning the honor with the Criollos de Caguas. It’s his third MVP award in four years across two overseas leagues, a run that has turned him into one of the most decorated former Spartans still playing professionally outside the NBA.
The 2025-26 BSN season gave Trice another big statistical line to match the award. He averaged 18.4 points, 10.1 assists, and 3.3 rebounds while shooting 45/37/88. That came on the heels of his 2023-24 MVP season with Caguas, when he put up 21.3 points, 7.7 assists, and 3.6 rebounds while shooting 44.3% from the floor and 35.7% from 3-point range.
Trice has been one of the league’s sharpest perimeter threats and one of its best creators, even in a BSN that includes former NBA big man Montrezl Harrell. He’s also joined a recent MVP list in the league that includes former NBA guards Emmanuel Mudiay in 2025 and Brandon Knight in 2023.
His latest Puerto Rico award wasn’t his first MVP moment abroad, either. Trice won MVP in the Polish Basketball League in 2022 after averaging 17.2 points, 7.4 assists, and 2.2 rebounds while shooting 46.8% from deep.
The path to all of that started at Michigan State, where Trice spent his first three seasons as a role player before taking over as the starting point guard as a senior. That year, he averaged 15.3 points and 5.1 assists while hitting 37 percent from 3.
From there, he landed in the G-League and spent a year with the Westchester Knicks, averaging 15.4 points and 5.7 assists. The next season, he was even better, posting 21.1 points and 6.4 assists for the same team. He later split the 2018-19 season between the Wisconsin Herd and Austin Spurs, averaging over 15 points with both teams, but never got the NBA call.
That’s what pushed him overseas, where it took a little time to settle in. Once he did, the production started rolling, and the awards followed. At this point, Trice has built a career that looks very different from the NBA path many fans imagine, but the results speak loudly enough on their own.
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