New coach Tommy Lloyd is expecting big things from Azuolas Tubelis this season, and so are the folks at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, who included Arizona’s 6-foot-11 sophomore on a list of the 20 best power forwards in the country.
Tubelis has been named to the watch list for the Karl Malone Award, given annually to college basketball’s top power forward. Tubelis is one of two Pac-12 players on the watch list, along with Oregon’s Quincy Guerrier and USC’s Isaiah Mobley.
In 2020-21 Tubelis averaged 12.