Four Kentucky Basketball players were honored today on 4 different watch lists.
Skal Labissiere, Jamal Murray, Tyler Ulis, and Isaiah Briscoe are up for several national awards.
Take a look at the excerpt of the release from UK:
Labissiere, Murray and Ulis were all tabbed to both the Naismith and the USBWA Oscar Robertson watch lists for national player of the year, while all three freshmen also earned recognition to the USBWA’s Wayman Tisdale Award watch list for the nation’s top-performing freshman.
Briscoe is a 6-foot-3 guard from Union, N.J., who is averaging 12.2 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. He scored a career-high 18 points in a win over Illinois State on Monday following a seven-assist performance in a win over South Florida. He has logged double-digit points in all but one game he has played this season.
Labissiere, a 6-11 freshman from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has averaged 12.9 points and 2.1 blocks per game through UK’s first seven contests. He was named the Southeastern Conference co-Freshman of the Week following a breakout 26-point performance against NJIT. A preseason All-SEC selection by both the media and the league’s coaches, Labissiere has reached double-figure scoring in five games thus far.
Murray is a 6-4 guard from Kitchener, Ontario, who is the team’s leading scorer at 15.0 points per game. He earned Most Valuable Player honors at the Hoophall Miami Invitational in a career-high 21-point performance in the win over USF. Murray has drained at least one 3-pointer in all seven games this season and has scored in double-figures in six of seven outings.
Ulis is UK’s floor general. He has averaged 13.2 points and 4.3 assists per game in six starts. The 5-9 guard from Chicago earned SEC Player of the Week honors following an 18-point, six-assist breakout game against No. 5 Duke in the Champions Classic. Ulis played all 40 minutes in that game and did not commit a single turnover. He suffered a hyperextended elbow against USF and sat out UK’s latest win against Illinois State.
Here is the breakdown of each player and the watch list they are on:
Isaiah Briscoe – Wayman Tisdale Watch List
Skal Labissiere – Wayman Tisdale Watch List, Naismith Watch List, Oscar Robertson Watch List
Jamal Murray – Wayman Tisdale Watch List, Naismith Watch List, Oscar Robertson Watch List
Tyler Ulis – Naismith Watch List, Oscar Robertson Watch List
