Thu., Oct. 20: Three Kentucky freshmen are among 12 players announced as preseason candidates for the Wayman Tisdale Award, honoring the nation's top freshman for the 2011-12 college basketball season. The USBWA has chosen a national freshman of the year since the 1988-89 season when LSU's Chris Jackson was the recipient. Last season, Ohio State's Jared Sullinger won the inaugural Wayman Tisdale Award.
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Jenkins set a conference record for threes while Aden led a sweep of Stanford and Cal
Tue., Jan. 24: The U.S. Basketball Writers Association has selected its national players of the week for the week ending Sunday., Jan. 22. Washington State guard Faisal Aden is the Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week while St. Bonaventure guard Jessica Jenkins is the Women's National Player of the Week. This season marks the first time the USBWA has presented a women's national player of the week.
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Lenox Rawlings: In college basketball and sportswriting, you never know how things will turn out.
Joe Mitch: the USBWA plans to recognize former LSU coach Dale Brown at its annual awards breakfast.
Malcolm Moran: The words do not come easily these days. Not here, at Penn State.
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