BOULDER – University of Colorado junior forward Tyler Bey was named the 2019-20 Pac-12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year while classmate McKinley Wright IV was tabbed first team all-conference for the second time by a vote of league coaches the conference announced on Monday.
In addition, Bey was selected to the All-Pac-12 Second Team while joining Wright on the Pac-12's five-member All-Defensive squad.
Bey is Colorado's second Defensive Player of the Year in any conference, joining Andre Roberson who earned the Pac-12's honor in 2012-13. He's the first Buffalo to win two different major conference player of the year type awards.