It would be quite fitting if BYU Basketball’s Yoeli Childs wins the award for the nation’s best college power forward. It would mean that a Utahn wins the award named after one of the greatest basketball players in the state’s history.
And Childs is one of the 20 players named to the Karl Malone Award watch list, meaning there’s a decent chance that it could happen.
It’s not particularly surprising that Childs is on this watch list, considering he was one of the best power forwards statistically last season. As a sophomore the Cougar big man averaged 17.