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Jeff Borzelo
Duke’s Cooper Flag and Obern’s Johnny Broom started the list of five finalists of the Wooden Award as well as the All-US team, both were announced on Tuesday night.
The award is given annually to the country’s best college basketball player. Flags and broom have been the alleged favorite for the Wooden Awards from the beginning of the season, Broom has launched a campaign with a major non -performance performance before the ground with incredible performance in ACC Play.
Flag won both the clear-cut leader, ACC Player of the Year and Ruki of the Year in the NBA draft of June. He assists 18.9 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.2, while Duke takes the first final four of the program, as Mike Craziveski retired. Flag’s signature performance came back in January, when he went into a win on the Notre Dame for 42 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assistance, setting the ACC Freshman record for points in a game.
Shook a late season ankle injury, which kept him out of the ACC tournament semi-final and title games, the flag has been very good in the NCAA tournament-30-point, 6-ribound, 7-astrist performance against Arizona in The Sweet 16.
The broom was prominent to start the season, after the spacious state line, with the huge state line, Obern was taken to number 1 in the ranking. He had 23 points and 19 rebounds against Northern Carolina; 21 points and 10 rebounds against the state of Iowa; 21 points and 16 rebounds against memphis; 20 points against Duke and 12 boards; 21 points and 20 rebounds against Ohio state; And 23 points and 11 rebounds against perdue. All those sports took place in a month interval.
That average is 18.7 points and 10.9 rebounds and to carry out 47 points in winning on Michigan and Michigan state in the final four.
Flag and Broom are included as Wooden Award Finalists by Walter Clayton Junior of Florida, Mark Sears of Alabama and Braden Smith of Perdue.
Clayton has been the best guard in the country in the last two months, with Florida leading to its first four appearance since 2014. He is scoring 18.1 points and 4.2 assistance for the season, but he has scored at least 22 in seven of his last nine matches – including Florida’s Elite Eight Wins 30 points on Texas Tech.
A president who entered the season was an all-American and lived up to expectations despite some hiccups on the way. He ended the average season of 18.6 points and 5.1 aid and was one of the best performances in the history of the NCAA tournament over Alabama’s Sweet 16 wins. He ended with 34 points and eight assistance, shooting 10-for-16 from the 3-point range.
With Zach Edey in NBA, Smith took maximum responsibility within the crime of the perdue, averages the height of the career in both scoring and aid. He scored 15.8 points and placed the season second in the country, an average of 8.7 per game.
Five additional players named in the Wooden Award All-US team were LJ Cryr of Houston, Markwate Kama Jones, Ryan Kalkbrener of Creton, Chase Lanier of Tennsey and John Tone of Visconsin.
Men’s John R, every year since 1977, starting with UCLA star Marks Johnson. Wooden Awards have been given. The AD of Purdue won it in each of the last two years, who became the second male player to win only twice, Ralph Sampson, who won it in 1982 and 1983.
