Pac-10 Honors & Awards

With Arizona bowing out of the NCAAs just shy of the Final Four after a valiant fight against King Kemba and UConn, the Pac-10 season is officially in the books. That means it's time for RBP to take a look back at the conference's best and brightest. Honors and awards take into account the entirety of the season, rather than just Pac-10 conference play.

All-Pac 10

Isaiah Thomas, Washington
#2 Junior Guard 5-9 185
16.8 ppg 6.1 apg 1.3 spg

Klay Thompson, Washington State
#1 Junior Guard 6-6 200
22.0 ppg 5.3 rpg 3.8 apg

Derrick Williams, Arizona
#23 Sophomore Forward 6-8 240
19.5 ppg 8.4 rpg .603 3PT%

Reeves Nelson, UCLA
#22 Sophomore Forward 6-8 235
13.9 ppg 9.1 rbg .567 FG%

Nikola Vucevic, USC
#5 Junior Forward 6-10 260
17.1 ppg 10.3 rpg 1.4 bpg


Player of the Year: Derrick Williams, Arizona
After a stellar freshman campaign, the once overlooked Williams put together a superb sophomore season, developing into one of the country's most dominant players and carrying the Wildcats to the cusp of college basketball's final weekend.

All-Defense

Jorge Gutierrez, California
#2 Junior Guard 6-3 195

Malcolm Lee, UCLA
#3 Junior Guard 6-5 200

Jared Cunningham, Oregon State
#1 Sophomore Guard 6-4 180

Marcus Simmons, USC
#43 Senior Forward 6-6 220

Tyler Honeycutt, UCLA
#23 Sophomore Forward 6-8 190


Defensive Player of the Year: Jorge Gutierrez, California
Gutierrez, who averaged 1.6 steals per game and is perhaps the nation's peskiest on-ball defender, takes top honors in a conference that has so many talented stoppers that Venoy Overton didn't even make the cut for the conference's all-defensive team.

Freshman of the Year: Allen Crabbe, California
Crabbe, a well-rounded 6-4 two-guard who was ranked 69th nationally by rivals.com after his senior year of high school, averaged 13.4 points and 5.3 rebounds per contest for the Golden Bears.

Coach of the Year: Sean Miller, Arizona
In his second year at the helm, Miller led the Wildcats, unranked in the preseason, to 30 wins, the regular season Pac-10 title, a runner-up finish in the conference tourney, and an Elite Eight appearance in which Arizona fell to UConn by a basket.

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