Big 12 Honors for KU players 2026

KUAthletics.com: KU Trio win All Big 12 Honors

• Flo - Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, an All-Big 12 First Team selection, and a unanimous selection for the Big 12 All-Defensive Team.
• Dawg - Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, an all-league honorable mention honoree, and member of the Big 12 All-Newcomer Team.
• DP - All-Big 12 Second Team selection and a unanimous choice for the All-Freshman Team.

The Big 12 awards were selected by the conference coaches who were not allowed to vote for their own student-athletes in the process.

This is important when you think about how in the world Arizona's Jaden Bradley was voted B12 POY.
Should have been AJ Dybantsa,
I don't care if he is a freshman, he earned it,

2025-26 Big 12 Awards (as selected by the conference coaches)
NB: * denotes unanimous selection
Player of the Year: Jaden Bradley, Arizona
Defensive Player of the Year: Flory Bidunga, Kansas
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Tamin Lipsey, Iowa State
Freshman of the Year: AJ Dybantsa, BYU
Newcomer of the Year: Melvin Council Jr., Kansas
Sixth Man Award: Tobe Awaka, Arizona*
Most Improved: Christian Anderson, Texas Tech
Coach of the Year: Tommy Lloyd, Arizona

All-Big 12 First Team
Jaden Bradley, Arizona
Brayden Burries, Arizona
Motiejus Krivas, Arizona
AJ Dybantsa, BYU*
Emanuel Sharp, Houston
Kingston Flemings, Houston*
Joshua Jefferson, Iowa State
Flory Bidunga, Kansas
Christian Anderson, Texas Tech
JT Toppin, Texas Tech*

All-Big 12 Second Team
Richie Saunders, BYU
Baba Miller, Cincinnati
Tamin Lipsey, Iowa State
Milan Momcilovic, Iowa State
Darryn Peterson, Kansas

All-Big 12 Third Team
Koa Peat, Arizona
Cameron Carr, Baylor
Rob Wright, BYU
Themus Fulks, UCF
Xavier Edmonds, TCU

All-Big 12 Honorable Mention
Arizona: Tobe Awaka
Baylor: Tounde Yessoufou
Cincinnati: Moustapha Thiam
Colorado: Isaiah Johnson
Houston: Joseph Tugler, Milos Uzan
Kansas: Melvin Council Jr.
Kansas State: PJ Haggerty
Oklahoma State: Parsa Fallah
TCU: David Punch
Texas Tech: Donovan Atwell
West Virginia: Honor Huff
Utah: Terrence Brown

All-Defensive Team
Jaden Bradley, Arizona
Motiejus Krivas, Arizona
Emanuel Sharp, Houston
Joseph Tugler, Houston
Tamin Lipsey, Iowa State
Flory Bidunga, Kansas*
A tie resulted in an extra position on the team

All-Freshman Team
Brayden Burries, Arizona*
Koa Peat, Arizona
AJ Dybantsa, BYU*
Kingston Flemings, Houston*
Darryn Peterson, Kansas*

All-Newcomer Team
Cameron Carr, Baylor
Themus Fulks, UCF
Baba Miller, Cincinnati
Melvin Council Jr., Kansas
Donovan Atwell, Texas Tech

In a different awards time frame, congratulations to TRE WHITE for making last week's Big 12 Starting Five (link)

Here are the Jayhawks who earned Big 12 Weekly honors this season.

Kansas' Big 12 Weekly Honors in 2025-26
Flory Bidunga – Big 12 Player of the Week (2/9); Big 12 Starting Five (11/17; 12/1; 2/9)
Melvin Council Jr. – Big 12 Player of the Week (12/15); Big 12 Newcomer of the Week (12/15); Big 12 Starting Five (12/15)
Darryn Peterson – Big 12 Newcomer of the Week (1/19); Big 12 Starting Five (11/10; 1/12; 1/19)
Bryson Tiller – Big 12 Starting Five (2/2)
Tre White – Big 12 Starting Five (3/9)