Reigning winner Zach Edey, the dominant 7-foot-4 Purdue star, headlined the lads’s Wood Award Late Season High 20 record introduced Tuesday evening.
The award is given yearly to the very best school basketball participant within the nation.
Edey was the runaway Wood Award winner on the lads’s facet final season and entered this season because the heavy favourite to turn out to be the primary repeat winner since Virginia’s Ralph Sampson received the 1982 and 1983 awards. He is solely cemented his standing because the front-runner for the reason that season started, main the No. 2-ranked Boilermakers by averaging 23.0 factors, 11.4 rebounds and a pair of.3 blocks, whereas taking pictures 62.7% from the sector.
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Getting into the ultimate month of the common season, Edey is more likely to face a deeper pool of reliable contenders than a 12 months in the past. Tennessee wing Dalton Knecht has been the very best switch within the nation, and he is averaging 19.5 factors this season — however 32.0 factors over his previous 4 video games, with the Volunteers ranked inside the highest 5 nationally. North Carolina’s RJ Davis has been arguably the very best guard in America, producing a real breakout season and averaging 21.2 factors and three.3 assists because the Tar Heels appear like the ACC favourite and a Last 4 risk.
UConn guard Tristen Newton (15.8 PPG, 6.4 RPG, 5.8 APG) has been the very best participant on the nation’s finest workforce, whereas Kentucky’s Antonio Reeves is placing up 19.5 factors on 50.2% taking pictures (43.1 3PT%) for the top-10 Wildcats. The Kansas duo of Hunter Dickinson (18.9 PPG, 11.3 RPG) and Kevin McCullar Jr. (19.8 PPG, 4.7 RPG) are additionally having fun with All-America-caliber campaigns and will determine into the dialog if the Jayhawks make a late-season surge.
There are two gamers on the Late Season High 20 who weren’t on the Midseason High 25: Auburn’s Johni Broome and Dayton’s DaRon Holmes II.
The boys’s Wood Award has been given out yearly since 1977, beginning with UCLA star Marques Johnson.
The whole Wood Award Late Season High 20:
Armando Bacot, North Carolina
Johni Broome, Auburn
L.J. Cryer, Houston
Johnell Davis, Florida Atlantic
RJ Davis, North Carolina
Hunter Dickinson, Kansas
Zach Edey, Purdue
Kyle Filipowski, Duke
PJ Corridor, Clemson
DaRon Holmes II, Dayton
David Jones, Memphis
Dalton Knecht, Tennessee
Tyler Kolek, Marquette
Jaedon LeDee, San Diego State
Caleb Love, Arizona
Kevin McCullar Jr., Kansas
Tristen Newton, UConn
Antonio Reeves, Kentucky
Baylor Scheierman, Creighton
KJ Simpson, Colorado