WICHITA, Kan. – Most Valuable Player, Landry Shamet headlined the list of award winners, Wednesday evening at Wichita State's men's basketball postseason banquet.
Shamet becomes just the sixth freshman in 59 years to win the Wichita Eagle MVP Award, joining a list of previous MVP-winning frosh that includes Antoine Carr and Cliff Levingston (co-winners in 1979), along with Jamie Arnold (1994), Jason Perez (1997) and Toure' Murry (2009).
Shamet averaged 11.4 points and ranked 14th nationally in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.00) on his way to First Team All-Missouri Valley Conference and MVC Freshman of the Year honors.