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College basketball year-end awards and superlatives

The 2021-22 season brought some fantastic basketball along with a sense of normalcy. Despite COVID still ravaging the winter months, as we hit 2022, the pieces to it all began to fall back in place as we reached the NCAA Tournament.

First and foremost, congratulations are in order for the 2022 National Champions, the Kansas Jayhawks. It’s not about how you start, it’s about how you finish, Bill Self’s Jayhawks proved that early season loss to Dayton and the blowout at home against Kentucky were merely speed bumps along their path to a title.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

NCAA Basketball: Big Ten Conference Tournament- Purdue vs Iowa

TERRY: Keegan Murray - Iowa

The player of the year conversation shouldn’t come down to just scoring, but it’s difficult to ignore what Murray was able to accomplish against a stacked Big Ten schedule.