Kansas senior guard Frank Mason won the 2017 John R. Wooden Award on Friday night, cementing himself as near-unanimous national player of the year in college basketball.
Mason, a 5-foot-11 native of Petersburg, Va., claimed the Wooden over finalists Lonzo Ball (UCLA), Josh Hart (Villanova), Caleb Swanigan (Purdue) and Nigel Williams-Goss (Gonzaga). On Friday, he also was named the winner of the Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award during the College Basketball Awards Show broadcast on ESPN2 from The Novo by Microsoft in downtown Los Angeles.
Mason joins Danny Manning (1988) as KU’s second Wooden winner of all time.