Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Brooks added to mid-season Wooden Award list





















Senior Aaron Brooks, who you've heard about plenty on this blog, has been added to the mid-season list of Wooden Award candidates. The Wooden Award, if you don't know, is the NCAA Men's basketball Player of the Year award. Brooks is among 30 candidates, 3 of them from the Pac-10, although neither of them can hold a candle to Brooks. Check out the whole list here.

He's been having one helluva year, leading the Pac-10 in scoring with 19.1 ppg, and if he keeps it up in the second half, he could be a real contender. It wouldn't hurt if the story of how he got to where he is started going around either, about how he had a kid last year and almost left Oregon to be closer to his family, but then was encouraged to finish it out. Read all about it here. What will hurt him though, is Oregon's, or rather the Pac-10's, crappy TV deal. We are the strongest conference in the nation, top to bottom, but we (Oregon) are still getting played on FSN, who by the way has some of the shittiest commentators on TV. But being on FSN only gets us west coast coverage, and we, as a conference, deserve to be on ESPN at least one game a week. Especially this UCLA - Oregon match up tomorrow. That's GOTTA be the best game of the day! (So I just checked, and it is by FAR!) So why aren't we out there more? Get Aaron Brooks and the rest of the Ducks some exposure, and people will start to realize that we are a damn good team this year, and that Aaron Brooks is clearly one of the best players in the nation.

[via eDuck]

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