Lucky number three! If you are keeping count, that would now make three Arizona Wildcat players to be named as preseason candidates for collegiate basketball awards: Allonzo Trier and Rawle Alkins and now DeAndre Ayton. Ayton has been named to the watch list for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Karl Malone Award, which is given to the top power forward in the country.
Ayton defines POWER! Listed as 7-foot-1 and 250 pounds, he puts the “pow” in power forward. His opponents will have their work cut out for them, trying to guard him down low.