Kingsley Named To Wooden Award Watch List

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The list of accolades continues to get longer for senior Moses Kingsley, as the Arkansas forward was named one of 50 student-athletes on the John R. Wooden Award watch list ESPN released on Tuesday morning.

Chosen by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts, the 50 student-athletes are the early front-runners for college basketball’s most prestigious honor.

The Wooden Award National Advisory Board will select 25 players for the midseason list in early January, before being pared down to 20 individuals in early February. Fifteen top players who have proven to their universities that they are also making progress toward graduation and maintaining at least a cumulative 2.0 GPA will be placed on the ballot and submitted to voters prior to the NCAA Tournament and voting will take into account play during the opening rounds of the tournament. The winner of the 2017 John R. Wooden Award will be announced during the ESPN College Basketball Awards Show presented by Wendy’s on Friday, April 7, 2017.

The Top 50 nominees represent 10 conferences. The ACC leads all conferences with 12 selections, followed by the Big Ten (10), Pac-12 (7), Big 12 (6), SEC (5), Big East (5). The Atlantic 10 Conference has two selections and the Horizon League, The American and WCC each have one selection.

The Razorbacks are mentioned in the same sentence with the Wooden Award for the second time in the last three years after Bobby Portis landed on the preseason watch list during the 2014-15 season. Portis played himself onto the midseason list of 25 players and was one of 20 finalists for the award.

Kingsley is now on three national player of the year watch lists with the Naismith Trophy, the Lute Olson Award and now the Wooden Award as college basketball’s most outstanding player. He was named the Preseason SEC Player of the Year by the media and is also in the running for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award.

During the first two games of the year, Kingsley has averaged 12.0 points and 8.0 rebounds per game, while adding a league-best 12 blocks.

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