LOS ANGELES - Utah’s Jakob Poeltl has won the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year award.
The sophomore out of Vienna, Austria, was presented with the award Friday night at the second-annual College Basketball Awards show at the NOVO in downtown Los Angeles.
"Getting this award is still kind of surreal to me," Poeltl said after the awards show. "It is a great honor to have my name associated with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He one of, if not the best center to ever play the game. He is the all-time scoring leader in the NBA.