Utah Forward Timmy Allen Named Second Team All-Pac-12
Mar 9, 2020, 1:32 PM
Utah forward Timmy Allen (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
(Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – The Pac-12 Conference released their individual and all-conference awards. Utah Utes forward Timmy Allen has been named second team All-Pac-12.
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This is the first all-conference honor for Allen after receiving all-freshman team honors last season. He is the first Utah sophomore since Jakob Poeltl in 2016 to be named to an All-Pac-12 team.
Allen is averaging 17.5 points, 7.3 rebounds, 3 assists and 1.2 steals per game and finished the regular season with six double-doubles.
The Mesa, Arizona product has reached double figures in scoring in all but two games in Pac-12 play and scored 20 points or more in four games.
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Allen is one of just eight players to average 17 points, 7 rebounds, 2.5 assists and one steal per game in the nation and is the only player from a Power-5 program.
Utah received the No. 9 seed in the Pac-12 Tournament which will begin on Wednesday against No. 8 Oregon State. Tip-off from T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada will be at 1 p.m. and will be televised on the Pac-12 Network.
Pac-12 Individual Awards
Player of the Year: Payton Pritchard, G, Oregon
Freshman of the Year: Zeke Nnaji, F, Arizona
Defensive Player of the Year: Tyler Bey, G/F, Colorado
Most Improved Player of the Year: Chris Smith, F, UCLA
Sixth Man of the Year: Alonzo Verge Jr., G, Arizona State
Coach of the Year: Mick Cronin, UCLA
First Team All-Pac-12
- Oscar Da Silva, F, Stanford
- C.J. Elleby, F, Washington State
- Remy Martin, G, Arizona State
- Zeke Nnaji, F, Arizona
- Onyeka Okongwu, F, USC
- Payton Pritchard, G, Oregon
- Chris Smith, F, UCLA
- Isaiah Stewart, F, Washington
- Tres Tinkle, F, Oregon State
- McKinley Wright IV, G, Colorado
Second Team All-Pac-12
- Timmy Allen, F, Utah
- Tyler Bey, G/F, Colorado
- Matt Bradley, G, California
- Nico Mannion, G, Arizona
- Jonah Matthews, G, USC
Honorable Mention: Chris Duarte, G, Oregon – Tyrell Terry, G, Stanford – Alonzo Verge Jr., G, Arizona State
Pac-12 All-Freshman Team
- Nico Mannion, G, Arizona
- Zeke Nnaji, F, Arizona
- Onyeka Okongwu, F, USC
- Isaiah Stewart, F, Washington
- Tyrell Terry, G, Stanford
Honorable Mention: Jaime Jaquez Jr., G, UCLA
Pac-12 All-Defensive Team
- Tyler Bey, G/F, Colorado
- Kylor Kelley, F, Oregon State
- Jonah Matthews, G, USC
- Bryce Wills, G, Stanford
- McKinley Wright IV, G, Colorado
Honorable Mention: Chris Duarte, G, Oregon – Jalen Hill, F, UCLA – Jervae Robinson, G, Washington State – Dylan Smith, G, Arizona
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