A pair of University of Tennessee basketball players were recently named to the John R. Wooden Award Presented by Wendy’s Watch List.
Post players Yves Pons and John Fulkerson were two of 50 players on the list.
Tennessee was one of 11 schools that had multiple players make the watch list, which is comprised by basketball experts.
The 50 players are early front runners for two of college basketball’s most prestigious honors; the Wooden Award All-American Team and the Most Outstanding Player Award.
Other teams to have multiple candidates on the initial list include Duke, Baylor, Gonzaga, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, LSU, Stanford, Villanova and Virginia.
Pons and Fulkerson were two of 20 seniors on the list, which also included 12 juniors, 11 sophomores and seven freshmen.
Players on the list are from 11 conferences. The Big Ten had 11 players make the list. The Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference each had seven players on the list. The Pac-12 and Big 12 had six selections apiece.
The Big East had four players make the list. Other conferences represented included the Atlantic 10, West Coast Conference, the American Athletic Conference, Mountain West and Conference USA.
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