With the announcement of the Wooden Awards last Friday, college basketball’s awards season is over.
Duke’s Zion Williamson dominated that season as much as he dominated the on-court portion, capturing every major national player of the year award.
Williamson became the 11th Duke player to win a major national-player-of-the-year-award, the sixth to run the table, the latter with some caveats.
What constitutes a “major” award? There is no college-basketball-analog to football’s Heisman Trophy, baseball’s Golden Spikes Award, ice hockey’s Hobey Baker Award or lacrosse’s Tewaaraton Award, one widely-accepted award honoring the best player in the sport.