Oregon sophomore Tyler Dorsey was one of 20 players named to the preseason watch list for the 2017 Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award given to the nation’s top 2-guard by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
The award is in its third year, given to honor one of the greats to ever play the game.
Dorsey was one of the top freshmen in the nation last year, averaging 13.4 PPG and 4.3 RPG for Ducks, also knocking down 67 triples at a team-high 40.6 percent clip. Those numbers earned him a spot on the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team and Pac-12 All-Tournament Team. He was also named to the Wayman Tisdale National Freshman of the Year Watch List.
The 6-foot-4 guard had six 20-point performances last year, two of which came during Oregon’s Pac-12 Tournament championship run where he averaged 19.7 PPG and helped the Ducks secure a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Fellow Pac-12 guards Allonzo Trier (Arizona) and Isaac Hamilton (UCLA) were also named to the watch list.
The West Award committee will narrow its watch list to 10 players by mid-February and a list of five finalists will be announced in March. The winner of the 2017 Jerry West Award will be presented at the ESPN College Basketball Awards Show in Los Angeles on April 7.
For more information on the Jerry West Award, visit hoophallawards.com.
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