Frank Mason III, CONSENSUS NPOY!

Woo hoo! Clean sweep of every doggone award! Congratulations to FMIII!

NPOY #11: Wooden Award!
Unanimous Consensus!

NPOY #10: NABC
CONSENSUS NPOY!

NPOY #9: Naismith Trophy


NPOY #8: USBWA (Oscar Robertson Trophy)
The Oscar Robertson Trophy is voted on by the entire membership of the association, which consists of more than 900 journalists. It is the nation's oldest award and the only one named after a former player.

NPOY #7: Associated Press
Got 37 out of a possible 65 votes, Josh Hart was second with 16.

NPOY #6: CBS Sports
"Mason earns the honor largely because of his consistency and clutch play. He was more fun to watch, more statistically valuable to his team and more dependable on an every-game basis than any other player in the country."

NPOY Award #5: FoxSports

NPOY Award #4: The Sporting News
"... Frank Mason III is Sporting News' national Player of the Year for the 2016-17 season. As is the case with the KU greats he will join in the Allen rafters, he is entering some staggering company, from Oscar Robertson to Pete Maravich, from Bill Walton to Phil Ford, from Patrick Ewing to Tim Duncan and Kenyon Martin to Buddy Hield."

NPOY Award #3: USAToday
"Which means that, yes, Frank Mason’s four-year career at Kansas ranks among the all-time greats — and don’t think the Jayhawks faithful don’t realize that."

NPOY Award #2. NBC Sports (by Consensus)
"... for us at NBC Sports, Frank Mason III wasn’t just the obvious pick, it was the consensus pick."

NPOY Award #1. Bleacher Report
"He has the moments. He has the numbers. He has the wins. He made this pick easy. Frank Mason III is the Bleacher Report National Player of the Year."

ROCK CHALK, JAYHAWK!

REMAINING NPOY AWARDS AND ANNOUNCEMENT DATES
Adolph Rupp - April 1 I've seen nothing on this, last awarded 2015. May be defunct.
Wooden - April 7

*The NCAA uses four sources to officially determine a "consensus" for national postseason awards for men's basketball.
The Sporting News (TSN) - #BIFM!
The Associated Press (AP) - #BIFM!
The U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). - #BIFM!
The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) -- #BIFM

YES!!!

kuathletics.com/news/2017/3/7/mens-baske...yer-of-the-year.aspx

Keep 'em coming. Especially the Naismith and Wooden awards, please.

There's no "I" in team, but Frank deserves this. And as Frank goes, so go this year's Jayhawks!

Rock Chalk, and congrats to Frank!

Frank just keeps on adding them! And he deserves each and every one!
Man, I so hope he lands both the Wooden and Naismith awards. (Fingers crossed!)

I changed the title so we can just keep adding the awards earned all in one place as they are announced.

I love this tweet from Frank. Speaks volumes as to his selfless mindset...



As for the NC, from your lips to God's ear, Frank!

www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/new...hkjz2ue14vch3iylgnt3
Great article by DeCourcy.

Congrats to Frank!

Keep them coming, America! He is worthy!

ROCK CHALK JAYHAWK!

KUAD story on TSN NPOY

ALSO

Copying this from another site, verified where I could.

REMAINING NPOY AWARDS AND ANNOUNCEMENT DATES
Naismith - March 16: 4 finalists; April 2: POY (verified)
NABC - March 28* (KUAD lists as TBA)
AP - March 30* (verified)
Oscar Robertson (USBWA) - March 31* (verified)
Adolph Rupp - April 1
Wooden - April 7 (verified)

*FYI from the KUAD article:
Sporting News is one of four sources the NCAA uses to officially determine a consensus for national postseason awards for men's basketball. The other three are the Associated Press (AP), National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). The AP, NABC and USBWA have yet to release their National Player of the Year selection.

Vitale: FMIII POY

Doesn't really mean much in the grand scheme of things, but it is nice to know that so far everyone agrees that Frank is DA MAN!

NPOY Award #5: FoxSports

OP updated to include this.

"Among the most prestigious national college player of the year awards — Wooden, Naismith and Associated Press — only the Naismith college player of the year award still has ongoing voting for the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament."
KUSports.com

If by some atrocity Frank does not win the Wooden or the AP POY awards, these first 3 games of the NCAA tournament, especially this last one against Purdue and its NPOY candidate Swanigan, should lock up the Naismith POY award for him.

THANK YOU FRANK MASON III!

And the same to all the rest of our Jayhawks!

He should sweep them all. It's not even close!

But TEAM first, as Frank himself underscores... Win it all and the hardware and accolades will take care of themselves...

The NABC NPOY is supposed to be announced today, Tuesday, March 28, 2017.

Waiting... waiting...

The NABC POY is one of the awards for which I could not verify the announcement date. Of note is that the KUAD website lists the announcement date for the NABC POY as "TBA". The may not announce it until the annual meeting during the FF.
www.kuathletics.com/news/2017/3/6/mens-b...stseason-awards.aspx

Updated OP!

Once more with feeling -- CONGRATULATIONS, FRANK!

ROCK CHALK!

Reminder:
AP announcement is supposed to be today.
USBWA announcement tomorrow.

REMAINING NPOY AWARDS AND ANNOUNCEMENT DATES
Naismith - March 16: 4 finalists; April 2: POY (verified)
NABC - March 28* (KUAD lists as TBA)
AP - March 30* (verified)
Oscar Robertson (USBWA) - March 31* (verified)
Adolph Rupp - April 1
Wooden - April 7 (verified)

But no article to link yet on the APNews site ("story developing, check back soon")

Official: apnews.com/0df2d4bde2064ac3b0c13a1f65f9c37d