{"id":69259,"date":"2015-04-03T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=69259"},"modified":"2015-04-03T14:46:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T19:46:33","slug":"kaminsky-ap-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=69259","title":{"rendered":"Kaminsky, AP player of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/kaminskyphoto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69168\" alt=\"kaminskyphoto\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/kaminskyphoto.jpg\" width=\"122\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a>INDIANAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Frank Kaminsky, the 7-footer who anchored Wisconsin&#8217;s run to a second straight Final Four, is the runaway choice as The Associated Press&#8217; player of the year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kaminsky averaged 18.7 points and 8.0 rebounds while shooting 54.9 percent from the field and 41.5 percent from 3-point range as the Badgers ran up a 35-3 record and won the Big Ten regular season and tournament titles.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Frank the Tank&#8221;&#8216; is the first Wisconsin player to win the award, which started in 1961. He is the third from the Big Ten in the last six seasons, joining Ohio State&#8217;s Evan Turner in 2010 and Michigan&#8217;s Trey Burke in 2013.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kaminsky received 58 votes Friday from the 65-member national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25. Duke freshman Jahlil Okafor received five votes and Kentucky&#8217;s Wille Caulaey-Stein and Notre Dame&#8217;s Jerian Grant had one each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0INDIANAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Frank Kaminsky, the 7-footer who anchored Wisconsin&#8217;s run to a second straight Final Four, is the runaway choice as The Associated Press&#8217; player of the year. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kaminsky averaged 18.7 points and 8.0 rebounds while shooting 54.9 percent from the field and 41.5 percent from 3-point [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":69168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69260,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69259\/revisions\/69260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}