Kansas senior guard Frank Mason on Monday was selected as one of five finalists for the 2017 John R. Wooden Award honoring college basketball’s most outstanding player, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced.
Mason will travel to Los Angeles on April 7 with fellow finalists Lonzo Ball of UCLA, Villanova’s Josh Hart, Purdue’s Caleb Swanigan and Gonzaga’s Nigel Williams-Goss for the announcement of the Wooden winner.
Mason and KU freshman Josh Jackson were chosen to the 10-player Wooden All-America team. They were joined by Ball, Hart, Swanigan and Williams-Goss, plus Oregon’s Dillon Brooks, North Carolina’s Justin Jackson, Duke’s Luke Kennard and Kentucky’s Malik Monk.