Kansas senior guard Frank Mason, who won four major national college basketball player of the year awards last weekend at the Final Four, will travel to Los Angeles on Thursday as one of five finalists for perhaps the most prestigious honor of all — the John R. Wooden Award.
Mason has won the Associated Press player of the year award, the Naismith Trophy as presented by the Atlanta Tipoff Club, the Oscar Robertson Trophy as presented by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and the National Association of Basketball Coaches player of the year award.