Make it four days in a row that a player on the Kentucky men’s basketball team has been named to a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame preseason watch list.
This afternoon, UK senior forward Olivier Sarr was named to the 20-player watch list for the 2021 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award, presented to the nation’s best power center.
Sarr is one of just 15 upperclassmen under consideration and the lone player from the Southeastern Conference to make the list.
Named after Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, this year’s award will be presented at the ESPN College Basketball Awards Show in April.