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Utah basketball: Jakob Poeltl on Wooden, Naismith watch lists

Lately, not a week goes by without Poeltl making a watch list. This week, he has made two.

The sophomore made another round of cuts to 20 for the John R. Wooden Award, and a list of 35 for the Naismith Trophy. On both lists, he's keeping company with the country's brightest basketball stars contending to be the top college player in the country.

Poeltl was also listed among the final 10 candidates for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award for the nation's top center, and was on the last watch list for the Oscar Robertson Trophy last month.