I've been saying for the last couple of weeks that the media is going to want to give the award to someone on UK because of their record. They LOVE giving awards to players from winning teams, especially on teams as dominant as this years UK team.
Mark Titus, from Grantland.com, gave out his conference POY awards and...well, he took the easy way out (see link for his selection). But, here's the part where he discusses Portis/UK:
"Arkansas's Bobby Portis seems to be the only non-Kentucky player with a shot at winning POY, but he probably wouldn't even start for the Cats. That has to count for something, right? And while we're at it, Kentucky went undefeated in the SEC, it will win the conference by at least four games, and it might be the best college basketball team ever assembled. It's not far-fetched to suggest that the seven best players in the SEC play for the Wildcats. Are we really going to give a POY award to the eighth-best player in the conference?"
Hopefully this is just 1 man's opinion, and not shared by many others. But, I have a bad feeling about Portis getting screwed out of winning the award.
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/ncaa-basketball-acc-duke-blue-devils-jahlil-okafor-big-10-wisconsin-badgers-frank-kaminsky-pac-12-arizona-wildcats-tj-mcconnell-sec-kentucky-big-12-kansas-jayhawks/
This post was edited on 3/6 12:43 PM by Scott O.
Mark Titus, from Grantland.com, gave out his conference POY awards and...well, he took the easy way out (see link for his selection). But, here's the part where he discusses Portis/UK:
"Arkansas's Bobby Portis seems to be the only non-Kentucky player with a shot at winning POY, but he probably wouldn't even start for the Cats. That has to count for something, right? And while we're at it, Kentucky went undefeated in the SEC, it will win the conference by at least four games, and it might be the best college basketball team ever assembled. It's not far-fetched to suggest that the seven best players in the SEC play for the Wildcats. Are we really going to give a POY award to the eighth-best player in the conference?"
Hopefully this is just 1 man's opinion, and not shared by many others. But, I have a bad feeling about Portis getting screwed out of winning the award.
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/ncaa-basketball-acc-duke-blue-devils-jahlil-okafor-big-10-wisconsin-badgers-frank-kaminsky-pac-12-arizona-wildcats-tj-mcconnell-sec-kentucky-big-12-kansas-jayhawks/
This post was edited on 3/6 12:43 PM by Scott O.
