The preseason awards keep racking up for the 2020-21 Virginia Cavaliers. Forward Sam Hauser was named to the 2021 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Watch List, the award given annually to the best player in college basketball. Hauser, a redshirt senior that transferred to Virginia from Marquette before the 2019-20 season, is also on the preseason watchlist for the Julius Erving Award (given to the best power forward).
He is one of eight ACC players on the Naismith watchlist, joined by Scottie Barnes (FSU), Garrison Brooks (UNC), Matthew Hurt (Duke), Jalen Johnson (Duke), David Johnson (Louisville), Caleb Love (UNC), and Wendell Moore, Jr.