Brooks, Leunen & Porter Honored By the Pac-10
Three Ducks, Aaron Brooks, Maarty Leunen and Tajaun Porter, were recognized by the league’s coaches on Monday. Brooks, the Pac-10’s leading scorer, was named to the all-Pac-10 first team, Leunen was an all-Pac-10 honorable mention selection and Porter was a Pac-10 all-freshman pick. Brooks was also named one of 22 finalists for the Wooden Award and was a first team all-district selection by the USBWA and the NABC.
Brooks becomes Oregon's first all-Pac-10 player since Luke Jackson in 2004. The senior from Seattle, Wash., is currently locked in a battle with USC's Nick Young and UCLA's Arron Afflalo for the league's overall scoring title. Brooks comes into the Pac-10 tournament averaging 18.0 points per game, while Young is at 17.5 and Afflalo, the league's player of the year, is at 17.2. Brooks also ranks fourth in the league in assists (4.4 per game), seventh in steals (1.7 per game), fifth in three-pointers per game (2.3) and first in minutes played (37.1 per game).
Leunen ranks third in the Pac-10 in rebounding at 8.6 per game and is sixth in steals at 1.5 per game. He has 10 double figure rebounding games this season and eight double-doubles. The junior from Redmond, Ore., is averaging 11.0 points per game.
Last Saturday versus Oregon State, Porter tied Jason Kapono’s Pac-10 freshman record with his 82nd three-pointer of the season. Kapono, who won the 2007 three-point shooting contest during the NBA’s all-star weekend, established the current mark at UCLA in 2000. Porter is more than six-seventh of the way to the Oregon single-season record of 94 by Orlando Williams in 1994-95. The NCAA freshman record is 109 threes by Keydren Clark of St. Peters in 2003. The Pac-10 mark is 120 by Salim Stoudamire in 2005. The Detroit, Mich., native leads the Pac-10 in three-pointers per game (2.9) and free throw percentage (.925). He is averaging 13.8 points per game, which ranks 14th in the league. Porter’s selection continues a recent trend of Pac-10 all-freshmen for the Ducks. He’s Oregon’s sixth in the last seven seasons.
Oregon faces Arizona in a Pac-10 tournament quarterfinal game Thursday at 12:20 p.m. at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
| All-Conference Team | ||||||
| Name | School | Pos | Yr | Ht | Wt | Hometown (Last School) |
| Arron Afflalo | UCLA | G | Jr. | 6-5 | 200 | Compton, Calif. (Centennial HS) |
| Jon Brockman | WASH | F | So. | 6-7 | 245 | Snohomish, Wash. (Snohomish HS) |
| Aaron Brooks | ORE | G | Sr. | 6-1 | 160 | Seattle, Wash. (Franklin HS) |
| Darren Collison | UCLA | G | So. | 6-2 | 160 | Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. (Etiwanda HS) |
| Lawrence Hill | STAN | F | So. | 6-8 | 205 | Glendale, Ariz. (Deer Valley HS) |
| Derrick Low | WSU | G | Jr. | 6-2 | 186 | Honolulu, Hawaii (Iolani School) |
| Kyle Weaver | WSU | G | Jr. | 6-6 | 201 | Beloit, Wis. (Beloit Memorial HS) |
| Marcus Williams | ARIZ | F | So. | 6-7 | 205 | Seattle, Wash. (Roosevelt HS) |
| Nick Young | USC | G/F | Jr. | 6-6 | 195 | Los Angeles, Calif. (Cleveland HS) |
| Honorable Mention (also receiving votes): Ryan Anderson (CAL, Fr., F), Maarty Leunen (ORE, Jr., F), Spencer Hawes (WASH, Fr., C), Brook Lopez (STAN, Fr., F), Luc Richard Mbah a Moute (UCLA, So., F), Jeff Pendergraph (ASU, So., F), Gabe Pruitt (USC, Jr., G), Ivan Radenovic (ARIZ, Sr., F), Mustafa Shakur (ARIZ, Sr., G), Josh Shipp (UCLA, So., F), Lodrick Stewart (USC, Sr., G), Ayinde Ubaka (CAL, Sr., G). | ||||||
| All-Freshman Team | |||||
| Name | School | Pos | Ht | Wt | Hometown (Last School) |
| Ryan Anderson | CAL | F | 6-10 | 235 | El Dorado Hills, Calif. (Oak Ridge HS) |
| Chase Budinger | ARIZ | F | 6-7 | 205 | Encinitas, Calif. (LaCosta Canyon HS) |
| Taj Gibson | USC | F | 6-9 | 210 | Brooklyn, N.Y. (Calvary Christian, San Fernando, Calif.) |
| Spencer Hawes | WASH | C | 7-0 | 250 | Seattle, Wash. (Seattle Prep) |
| Brook Lopez | STAN | F | 7-0 | 240 | Fresno, Calif (San Joaquin Memorial HS) |
| Tajuan Porter | ORE | G | 5-6 | 160 | Detroit, Mich. (Renaissance HS) |
| Honorable Mention (also receiving votes): Quincy Pondexter (WASH, F). | |||||
