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Villanova's Arcidiacono wins Eddie Sutton Tustenugee Award

Villanova's Ryan Arciadiacono is the sixth winner of the Eddie Sutton Tustenugee Award.

The award, presented by Tulsa Sports Charities, is given to the player "who best exhibits the traits of tenacity and unselfishness that Sutton advocated as a coach.

Arciadiacono assisted on Kris Jenkins' game-winning basket that lifted the Wildcats to the national title over North Carolina and was named the Most Outstanding Player at the Final Four.

"Ryan embodies every quality a coach would love to have in a player and his innate toughness is a big reason that Villanova won the national championship," former Oklahoma State player and current CBS analyst Doug Gottlieb said in a release.