Kansas’ Frank Mason wins 2017 Wooden Award

Frank Mason added yet another trophy to his collection on Friday, this time taking home the Wooden Award

We’ve just finished up what was yet another exciting college basketball season, and some of the best individual players in the game are being rewarded for their efforts. When you talk about this past college basketball season, there were few players better than Kansas Jayhawks point guard Frank Mason.

In a college basketball world that is dominated mostly by one-and-done freshmen, it was the senior Mason who stuck out the most with his outstanding play on the basketball court. On Friday night, he added another piece of hardware to his collection, as he took home the Wooden Award, recognizing the best player in college basketball.

Mason was also named the AP Player of the Year and the Naismith Player of the Year, so this is just yet another trophy he’ll get to boast about. Not to mention, if it wasn’t obvious, he was also recognized as the Big 12 Player of the Year as well when the season came to a close.

This past season, the senior led Kansas to yet another Big 12 title under Bill Self by averaging 20.9 points per game with 5.2 assists and 4.2 rebounds. The Jayhawks look poised to send Mason out with a national title, but they couldn’t withstand the offensive firepower of the Oregon Ducks in the Elite Eight. This effectively brought Mason’ illustrious career in Lawrence to a close.

Still, that loss doesn’t take away the fact that Mason will always been seen as one of the best players in the history of the prestigious Kansas program, and he will always have the awards to remind him and everyone else just how fantastic he was.