IRVING, Texas \u2014 Arizona senior guard Jaden Bradley was named the Big 12 player of the year Monday in voting by the conference\u2019s 16 coaches.<\/p>\n
Tommy Lloyd, who with Bradley led the No. 2 Wildcats to the regular-season conference title, was picked as coach of the year by his peers. <\/p>\n
Bradley is averaging 13.4 points and 4.6 assists for the Wildcats (29-2). Arizona senior forward Tobe Awaka, who is averaging 9.6 points and 9.5 rebounds, was named the league’s top sixth man. <\/p>\n
BYU guard AJ Dybansta, the Big 12 and national scoring leader at 24.5 points a game, was named the freshman of the year. Kansas senior guard Melvin Council Jr. was named the newcomer of the year after joining the No. 14 Jayhawks from St. Bonaventure.<\/p>\n
Honored as the top defensive player was the Jayhawks’ 6-foot-10 sophomore Flory Bidunga, who has a league-leading 2.7 blocks per game while averaging 13.8 points and 9.0 rebounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRVING, Texas \u2014 Arizona senior guard Jaden Bradley was named the Big 12 player of the year Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,319,217,231,772,1544,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-649732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116201863492852266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}