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Oregon's Payton Pritchard, UCLA's Mick Cronin Among 2020 Pac-12 Award Winners

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Oregon Ducks senior guard Payton Pritchard was named the 2019-20 Pac-12 men's basketball player of the year, the conference announced alongside other awards Monday.

The 22-year-old was the sixth Duck to be named Pac-12 Player of the Year and third in the last six years. Joseph Young won for the 2014-15 season, and Dillon Brooks did so in 2016-17.

Pritchard was also named to the All-Pac-12 first team, the only Duck to receive that honor. He is Oregon's leading scorer and distributor with 20.5 points and 5.5 assists per game.

UCLA head coach Mick Cronin was selected as the John R.