LAWRENCE, Kan. – The Kansas trio of Hunter Dickinson, Dajuan Harris Jr. and AJ Storr have been named to the Naismith Trophy Men’s College Player of the Year Watch List, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced Thursday.
A total of 49 are listed on the Naismith Trophy Watch List and Kansas and Baylor are the only schools with three student-athletes on the list.
Dickinson, Harris and Storr are vying to become the third Kansas Jayhawk to win the Naismith Trophy joining Danny Manning (1988) and Frank Mason III (2017).
Dickinson is the Preseason Big 12 Player of the Year and on most preseason All-America teams. Following the 2023-24 season, the Alexandria, Virginia native was named a 2024 Consensus All-America Second Team, All-Big 12 First Team and the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year selection. Dickinson was the only player in the Big 12 to average a double-double (17.9 ppg, 10.9 rpg) last year.
A 2023-24 transfer from Michigan, Dickinson has 2,208 career points, 1,148 career rebounds and 196 career blocked shots heading into the 2024-25 season. He has 48 career double-doubles, including 17 at Kansas in 2023-24. Dickinson is the only active player in NCAA Division I to have 2,200 or more career points and 1,100 career rebounds.
A three-time All-Big 12 selection and three-time Big 12 All-Defensive Team honoree, Harris was the 2023 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year. The Columbia, Missouri native has started each of the last three seasons, including the 2022 NCAA National Championship team. A three-time Academic All-Big 12 selection who graduated from KU in May 2023, Harris ranks fourth on the KU career assists list with 676 and sixth on career steals with 215 and he is one of just four all-time Jayhawks to have 600 assists and 200 steals (Aaron Miles, Kirk Hinrich, Darnell Valentine). Harris led the Big 12 in assist-to-turnover ratio in 2022 and 2023.
Storr transferred to Kansas from Wisconsin following the 2023-24 season. The Rockford, Illinois native played his freshman year at St. John’s in 2022-23. Last season, Storr was named to the 2024 All-Big Ten Second Team where he led Wisconsin with 16.8 points per game, a 43.4 field goal percentage and 81.2 free throw percentage. He was named to the 2024 Big Ten All-Tournament Team where he averaged 22.5 points in four games, including a career-high 30 points in a win against Northwestern in the quarterfinals. |
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