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Pac-12 Men's Basketball Freshman of the Year Awarded for The most outstanding freshman male basketball player in the Pac-12 Country United States First awarded 1979 Currently held by Myles Rice, Washington State
The Pac-12 Freshman of the Year was an annual award in the Pac-12 Conference presented to its top freshman player in men's basketball . The winner is chosen by the Pac-12 coaches. The honor began in 1978–79, when it was known as the Rookie of the Year and players in their first year in the conference, including transfers, were eligible. Junior guard Bryan Rison of Washington State was the first honoree and the only non-freshman to ever win. The candidates were limited to freshman starting in 1983–84, when the award was renamed to Freshman of the Year.[ 1] The conference was known as the Pacific-10 before becoming the Pac-12 in 2011.[ 2] Four winners were also named the conference's player of the year in the same year: Shareef Abdur-Rahim (California , 1996), Kevin Love (UCLA , 2008), Deandre Ayton (Arizona , 2018) and Evan Mobley (USC , 2021).[ 3]
School
Winners
Years
Arizona
10
1986, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020
UCLA
10
1986, 1989, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2013, 2017, 2023
California
8
1983, 1985, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2004, 2011, 2016
Arizona State
5
1980, 1991, 2003, 2013, 2019
Stanford
5
1981, 1982, 1994, 2000, 2022
Washington
5
1984, 1988, 1992, 2009, 2012
Washington State
2
1979, 2024
USC
2
1990, 2021
Oregon
1
2001
Oregon State
1
1987
Colorado
0
N/A
Utah
0
N/A
^ a b "2015–16 Pac-12 Men's Basketball Media Guide" . Pac-12 Conference. p. 139. Retrieved January 30, 2016 .
^ "Pac-12 Conference 2011–12 Men's Basketball Media Guide" . Pac-12 Conference . 2011. p. 5. Retrieved February 9, 2012 .
^ a b "2020-21 Pac-12 Men's Basketball All-Conference honors and Annual Performance Awards, presented by Nextiva" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference . March 9, 2021. Retrieved March 9, 2021 .
^ Letourneau, Connor (March 7, 2016). "Cal's Jaylen Brown named Pac-12 Freshman of the Year" . San Francisco Chronicle . Archived from the original on May 23, 2016. Retrieved June 8, 2016 .
^ Bolch, Ben (March 6, 2017). "UCLA's Lonzo Ball is Pac-12 freshman of the year and one of three Bruins on first team" . Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on March 8, 2017. Retrieved March 7, 2017 .
^ Bolch, Ben (March 5, 2018). "Arizona's Deandre Ayton is Pac-12 Conference's player, freshman of the year" . Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on March 7, 2018.
^ "Pac-12 announces 2018-19 Men's Basketball annual major awards" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference . March 11, 2019. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved March 11, 2019 .
^ "Pac-12 announces 2019-20 Men's Basketball annual major awards" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference . March 9, 2020. Archived from the original on March 26, 2020. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
^ "Pac-12 announces 2021-22 Men's Basketball annual major awards" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference . March 8, 2022. Retrieved March 8, 2022 .
^ "Pac-12 announces 2022-23 Men's Basketball annual major awards" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference . March 7, 2023. Retrieved March 7, 2023 .
^ "2023-24 Pac-12 Men's Basketball All-Conference honors and Annual Performance Awards, presented by Nextiva" (Press release). Pac-12 Conference . March 12, 2024. Retrieved March 12, 2024 .
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