BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) \u2014 Obi Toppin of Dayton won the John R. Wooden Award as the nation\u2019s outstanding college basketball player.<\/p>\n
Toppin, along with Saddiq Bey of Villanova, Luka Garza of Iowa, Myles Powell of Seton Hall and Peyton Pritchard of Oregon, also won positional awards from the Basketball Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n
The winners were announced Tuesday on ESPN\u2019s \u201cSportsCenter\u201d broadcast. They are usually honored at the College Basketball Awards in Los Angeles, which was scheduled for Friday, but got canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
Toppin is the first player from Dayton to win the Wooden Award and the first Atlantic-10 Conference player to do so since Jameer Nelson of St. Joseph\u2019s in 2004. Toppin averaged 20 points, 7.0 rebounds and shot 60% from the field. He led the nation in dunks with a school-record 107 and his 190 career slams also set a school mark.<\/p>\n
Wooden Award voting took place from March 16-23.<\/p>\n
Toppin also received the Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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