Pritchard Named a Cousy Award Finalist
03/02/20 | Men's Basketball
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. – Senior Payton Pritchard was named one of five finalists for the 2020 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Monday. He is the first Cousy Award finalist in program history.
Joining Pritchard on the list of finalists are Devon Dotson of Kansas, Malachi Flynn of San Diego State, Markus Howard of Marquette and Tre Jones of Duke.
Pritchard is also on the lists for the Wooden Award (final 20), Naismith Trophy (final 30) and Oscar Robertson Trophy (final 12). He is the only player in the nation averaging at least 20 points, four rebounds and five assists per game.
Pritchard is also one of just five players nationally who is leading his conference in both scoring (20.2 points per game) and assists (5.4 per game). If he maintains his scoring and assists leads, Pritchard would join Gary Payton (Oregon State, 1989-90), Damon Stoudamire (Arizona, 1994-95) and Jason Terry (Arizona, 1998-99) as the only players in Conference history to accomplish that feat. All three were consensus First Team All-Americans and Payton and Terry were National Players of the Year.
Pritchard has scored at least 20 points against nine different Pac-12 opponents this season.
Named the national player of the week by three different organizations this season (Naismith Trophy, Oscar Robertson Trophy, NCAA.com) and twice named Pac-12 player of the week, Pritchard leads the nation with 138 consecutive starts.
He is the only player in Pac-12 history with 1,800 career points, 600 career assists and 500 career rebounds. Already the school's record holder in assists (645), wins (103) and games started (138), Pritchard is also on pace to become the school's career leader in steals and games played and could become just the second 2,000-point scorer in program history.
Named after Class of 1971 Hall of Famer and former Boston Celtic and Holy Cross point guard Bob Cousy, the annual honor now in its 17th year recognizes the top point guard in Division I men's college basketball.
This month, the finalists will be presented to Cousy and the Hall of Fame's selection committee. The winner of the 2020 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award will be determined by a combination of fan votes and input from the Basketball Hall of Fame's selection committee. Naismith Starting Five Fan Voting presented by Dell Technologies will go live Friday on hoophallawards.com.
The winner of the 2020 Bob Cousy Award will be presented at The College Basketball Awards presented by Wendy's in Los Angeles April 10 along with the other four members of the Naismith Starting Five.
No. 13 Oregon hosts California Thursday at 8 p.m. at Matthew Knight Arena and Stanford at 8 p.m. on Saturday to close out the 2019-20 regular season.
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Joining Pritchard on the list of finalists are Devon Dotson of Kansas, Malachi Flynn of San Diego State, Markus Howard of Marquette and Tre Jones of Duke.
Pritchard is also on the lists for the Wooden Award (final 20), Naismith Trophy (final 30) and Oscar Robertson Trophy (final 12). He is the only player in the nation averaging at least 20 points, four rebounds and five assists per game.
Pritchard is also one of just five players nationally who is leading his conference in both scoring (20.2 points per game) and assists (5.4 per game). If he maintains his scoring and assists leads, Pritchard would join Gary Payton (Oregon State, 1989-90), Damon Stoudamire (Arizona, 1994-95) and Jason Terry (Arizona, 1998-99) as the only players in Conference history to accomplish that feat. All three were consensus First Team All-Americans and Payton and Terry were National Players of the Year.
Pritchard has scored at least 20 points against nine different Pac-12 opponents this season.
Named the national player of the week by three different organizations this season (Naismith Trophy, Oscar Robertson Trophy, NCAA.com) and twice named Pac-12 player of the week, Pritchard leads the nation with 138 consecutive starts.
He is the only player in Pac-12 history with 1,800 career points, 600 career assists and 500 career rebounds. Already the school's record holder in assists (645), wins (103) and games started (138), Pritchard is also on pace to become the school's career leader in steals and games played and could become just the second 2,000-point scorer in program history.
Named after Class of 1971 Hall of Famer and former Boston Celtic and Holy Cross point guard Bob Cousy, the annual honor now in its 17th year recognizes the top point guard in Division I men's college basketball.
This month, the finalists will be presented to Cousy and the Hall of Fame's selection committee. The winner of the 2020 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award will be determined by a combination of fan votes and input from the Basketball Hall of Fame's selection committee. Naismith Starting Five Fan Voting presented by Dell Technologies will go live Friday on hoophallawards.com.
The winner of the 2020 Bob Cousy Award will be presented at The College Basketball Awards presented by Wendy's in Los Angeles April 10 along with the other four members of the Naismith Starting Five.
No. 13 Oregon hosts California Thursday at 8 p.m. at Matthew Knight Arena and Stanford at 8 p.m. on Saturday to close out the 2019-20 regular season.
- www.GoDucks.com -
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