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KU's Frank Mason III Named AP Player of the Year

By Greg Echlin
Published March 30, 2017 at 8:16 PM CDT
KU guard Frank Mason III has been named the AP's National Player of the Year. (Photo by KU Athletics)
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Frank Mason III attending the AP's National Player of the Year award ceremony in Phoenix. (Photo by AP)
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Though the men’s basketball season is over for the University of Kansas, one of its players made a breakthrough with an individual honor. KPR’s Greg Echlin explains.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Frank Mason III, who led the University of Kansas to its 13th consecutive Big 12 title, is The Associated Press's Player of the Year. The senior point guard averaged 20.8 points, 4.1 rebounds and 5.1 assists while shooting 48.7 percent from 3-point range. He received 37 votes Thursday from the same 65-member media panel that selects the weekly AP Top 25. Josh Hart of Villanova was second with 16 votes while Caleb Swanigan of Purdue had 9 and Lonzo Ball of UCLA had 3. Mason is the first KU player to win the award. He is the first Big 12 player to win it since Blake Griffin of Oklahoma in 2009.
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Greg Echlin
Greg Echlin is the sports reporter for KPR and KCUR. Ever since he set foot on the baseball diamond at Fernwood Park on Chicago's South Side, Greg Echlin began a love affair with the world of sports. After graduating from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, he worked as a TV sports anchor and a radio sportscaster in Salina, Kansas. He moved to Kansas City in 1984 and has been there since covering sports. Through the years, he has covered multiple Super Bowls, Final Fours and Major League Baseball's World Series and All-Star games. With his high metabolism rate, Greg is able to enjoy a good meal and stay slim when he's not running around on the sports scene. He loves desserts, even making them. Cheesecakes, pies and parfaits are the most common around the Echlin household.
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