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Postseason awards: Arizona dominates Pac-12 honors

Matt Moreno

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Aug 8, 2011
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Arizona has nearly pulled off a clean sweep of the top postseason awards in the Pac-12 Conference. The Wildcats are represented with nearly every top award in today's release that was voted on by coaches across the league. Tommy Lloyd is the John. R. Wooden Coach of the Year, Benn Mathurin is the Pac-12 Player of the Year, Christian Koloko is the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year and the Pac-12 Most Improved Player plus Pelle Larsson is the Pac-12 Sixth Man of the Year. Koloko is the first Arizona player to earn the defensive player of the year award while Mathurin is the ninth player in program history to earn the league's top honor. Harrison Ingram (Stanford) was the only non-Arizona player to win an award on Tuesday as he was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.

Mathurin, Koloko and Azuolas Tubelis have been named to the Pac-12 First Team while Dalen Terry earned an honorable mention nod for the all-conference lists.

The Pac-12 All-Defensive team is made up of players from just two teams, Arizona and UCLA, with Terry and Koloko being the two Wildcats on that list.

 
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