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Duke's Zion Williamson Named 2019 Naismith Award Winner over Ja Morant, More

Zion Williamson missed five-plus games due to a knee injury this college basketball season.

That still wasn't enough for anyone to catch him in the Player of the Year Race. The Atlanta Tipoff Club named Williamson the recipient of the 2019 honor Sunday. He won the award over Murray State's Ja Morant, Tennessee's Grant Williams and Gonzaga's Rui Hachimura.

Williamson is the eighth Duke player to take home POTY honors and first since J.J. Redick in 2006. He's the third freshman to ever take home an award regularly given to upperclassmen, joining Kevin Durant (2007) and Anthony Davis (2012).