The Pac-12’s reigning Sixth Man of the Year did not make the first squad of the preseason all-conference team, landing on the second team. But a national award thinks much higher of Arizona’s wing.
Pelle Larsson is one of 20 players on the preseason watch list for the Julius Erving Award, given annually to college basketball’s top small forward. The 6-foot-5, 215-pound junior wing is one of three Pac-12 players on the list, along with Stanford’s Harrison Ingram and UCLA’s Jaime Jaquez Jr., both of whom were on the preseason first team in the conference.