What a fine Saturday after all

Rock chalk good work gutting that out and HD going off

Keep beating off to Kenpom. Thats all you do. Looks at Kenpom. Has only opinion due to Kenpom. Frank Mason is nine times the Jayhawk that fkn ****er Dickinson is.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...th-player-year

Frank Mason III wins Naismith POY

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Kansas guard Frank Mason III has won the James A. Naismith Trophy as the top college basketball player.

The award presented by the Atlanta Tipoff Club was announced Sunday in Arizona near the site of the Final Four.

Mason adds to his awards haul with the honor, having already won Associated Press player of the year on Thursday.

Mason beat out Lonzo Ball of UCLA, Josh Hart of Villanova and Caleb Swanigan of Purdue in voting by a panel of journalists, current and former coaches, conference commissioners and former Naismith winners. Voting was conducted during the NCAA tournament.

Mason says winning the award with Naismith's name on it brings his experience full circle because Naismith invented the game and was the first coach at Kansas.

Kansas coach Bill Self tweeted congratulations to Mason III after the announcement. Mason in turn tweeted his gratitude for everything he's learned from Self.

Mason led the Big 12 in scoring and averaged 20.9 points. The Jayhawks were eliminated in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament by Oregon.

2017 kenpom.com Player of the Year Standings
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Player kPOY
Rating
1

Josh Hart, Villanova
6-5 · 215 · Sr · Silver Spring, MD
1.671

2

Jock Landale, Saint Mary's
6-11 · 255 · Jr · East Malvern, Australia
1.591

3

Johnathan Motley, Baylor
6-10 · 230 · Jr · Houston, TX
1.530

4

Caleb Swanigan, Purdue
6-9 · 250 · So · Fort Wayne, IN
1.488

5

Nigel Williams-Goss, Gonzaga
6-3 · 195 · Jr · Happy Valley, OR
1.461

6

Frank Mason, Kansas
5-11 · 190 · Sr · Petersburg, VA
1.418

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Player kPOY
Rating
1

Cooper Flagg, Duke
6-9 · 205 · Fr · Newport, ME
2.914

2

Johni Broome, Auburn
6-10 · 240 · Sr · Plant City, FL
2.329

3

Hunter Dickinson, Kansas
7-2 · 265 · Sr · Alexandria, VA
1.546

4

Kam Jones, Marquette
6-5 · 205 · Sr · Memphis, TN
1.458

5

Braden Smith, Purdue
6-0 · 170 · Jr · Westfield, IN
1.445

6

Mark Sears, Alabama
6-1 · 190 · Sr · Muscle Shoals, AL
1.405

Ok?

Definitely!

And despite all the crap I've said about him this year, KJ has been good the past 5 games or so. Too bad he couldn't play like that every game.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Self: I still think there&#39;s enough gas in the tank that we can play our best moving forward &amp; today was a big step in that direction. We needed confidence from the way the game went and we got that... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KUbball?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KUbball</a></p>&mdash; Matt Tait (@mctait) <a href="https://twitter.com/mctait/status/1898533784422945157?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 9, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

I will say that if I was a #1 or #2 seed in the tourney, I would hate the committee for making us a 7/8 seed. We have the seed resume profile of a 6 and the talent level of a team much higher than that.

He wasn't half bad. ;)

Hell of a season. Finished the regular season 1-0.

Second 2nd season, LFG!

That dirty BASTARD!!!!!!

I can’t believe Self never listened to BWillie and gave all of Dickinson’s minutes to Stone Hands Bidunga.

Raise a banner?

I prefer when KU wins tbh

Kenpom agrees

That ship has sailed. I am now rooting for the individual players I like.

This team is not good.

It happens. It's incredible it's taken this long for us to suck.