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Garcia Named To Malone Award Watch List

CHAPEL HILL—North Carolina sophomore Dawson Garcia is one of 20 players named on Thursday to the watch list for the 2022 Karl Malone Award, given to the nation's top power forward.

Named after Class of 2010 Hall of Famer and two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Karl Malone, the annual honor in its eighth year recognizes the top power forwards in Division I men's college basketball. A national committee of top college basketball personnel determined the watch list of 20 candidates.

"The Basketball Hall of Fame is proud to annually recognize the best student-athletes in the collegiate game with positional awards bearing the names of some of the greatest players of all time," said John L.