Kansas senior Frank Mason on Sunday claimed his third major college basketball player of the year award in a four-day trip to Arizona, site of the Final Four.
Mason, a 5-foot-11 guard from Petersburg, Va., who won the AP player of the year award Thursday and the Oscar Robertson Trophy (USBWA) on Friday, was presented the James A. Naismith Trophy on Sunday afternoon at the Naismith Awards brunch at the Final Four.
The Naismith Trophy, which recognizes college basketball’s most outstanding men’s player, is awarded by the Atlanta Tipoff Club. Mason joined Danny Manning (1988) as the only Jayhawks to win that award.