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All-Pac-10 awards: Williams is Freshman of the Year; Wise makes first team

by on Mar. 08, 2010, under Sports
Derrick Williams

Derrick Williams

The Pac-10 released its all-conference teams Monday morning, with Arizona forward Derrick Williams earning Freshman of the Year honors, as well as one of 10 slots on the all-conference first team.

Arizona senior point guard Nic Wise was not on the original list released by the Pac-10, but he was indeed selected first-team all-league. (Insert personal gripe here: The league needs to agree to make some tough calls and have just a five-man first team, and then a second team and third team.)

Cal point guard Jerome Randle is the Pac-10 Player of the Year. Oregon State’s Seth Tarver is the Defensive Player of the Year. USC sophomore forward Nikola Vucevic is the Most Improved Player of the Year. Arizona State’s Herb Sendek is the Coach of the Year.

Williams is the sixth Arizona Wildcat to be the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year. He joins Sean Elliott (1986), Mike Bibby (1997), Michael Wright (1999), Salim Stoudamire (2002) and Chase Budinger (2007).

The voting is done by the league coaches, who are not allowed to vote for themselves or their players.

You can find the full list of Pac-10 awards at the official site, although beware that this page (at least as of right now) does not include Wise.

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  • Mark B. Evans

    Is DW  the second coming of Sean Elliott? The similarities are there when comparing freshman seasons.
     
    Elliott was 6′ 8″, Williams is 6′ 8″
     
    Elliott averaged 15.7 points a game as a freshman, Williams is averaging 15.7 a game as a freshman.
     
    Elliott made 49 percent of his field goals, Williams 59 percent.
     
    Elliott made 76 percent of his free throws, Williams 68 percent.
     
    Elliott averaged 5.3 rebounds per game, Williams 7.
     
    Elliott averaged 34 minutes a game in 32 games, Williams is averaging 28 minutes a game in 30 games, albeit he has at least two games left to play and maybe more depending how UA does in tournaments.
     
    So the questions are: is Momo the next Kerr? Fogg the next Lofton? Parrom the next Cook? They could be. But who will be the next Tolbert and McMillan? Will Williams stay three years?
     
    I know, pining away for this crew to bring back the glory of 1988, 0r 1997, or 2001 is a fool’s errand. OK, so I’m a fool. But that doesn’t mean that Williams doesn’t remind me of Elliott.

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