Nash on Preseason Watch List

Oct. 20, 2011

Stillwater, Okla. — Oklahoma State freshman basketball player Le'Bryan Nash is one of 12 players named to the 2011-12 Wayman Tisdale Award Preseason Watch List, given annually to the nation's top freshman by the United States Basketball Writers Association.

Nash has already been named the Big 12 Preseason Freshman of the Year in a vote of the league coaches, and is the only Big 12 player on the Tisdale Award watch list.

Others included on the list are: Bradley Beal of Florida, Louisville's Chane Behanan, Khem Birch of Pittsburgh, Connecticut's Andre Drummond, Austin Rivers of Duke, Memphis' Adonis Thomas, Josiah Turner of Arizona, Indiana's Cody Zeller, and the Kentucky trio of Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and Marquis Teague.

The USBWA has chosen a national freshman of the year since the 1988-89 season when LSU's Chris Jackson was the recipient. Other former Big 12 players who have won the award include Texas' T.J. Ford (2002), Kevin Durant of Texas (2007) and Kansas State's Michael Beasley (2008).

2011-12 WAYMAN TISDALE AWARD WATCH LIST
Player, School	Pos.	Ht.	Wt.	Cl.	Hometown
Bradley Beal, Florida	G	6-3	207	Fr.	St. Louis, Mo.
Chane Behanan, Louisville	F	6-6	245	Fr.	Cincinnati, Ohio
Khem Birch, Pittsburgh	F	6-9	220	Fr.	Montreal, Quebec
Anthony Davis, Kentucky	F	6-10	220	Fr.	Chicago, Ill.
Andre Drummond, Connecticut	C	6-10	270	Fr.	Middletown, Conn.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Kentucky	F	6-7	232	Fr.	Somerdale, N.J.
Le'Bryan Nash, Oklahoma State	G/F	6-7	230	Fr.	Dallas, Texas
Austin Rivers, Duke	G	6-4	200	Fr.	Winter Park, Fla.
Marquis Teague, Kentucky	G	6-2	189	Fr.	Indianapolis, Ind.
Adonis Thomas, Memphis	F/G	6-6	222	Fr.	Memphis, Tenn.
Josiah Turner, Arizona	G	6-3	192	Fr.	Sacramento, Calif.
Cody Zeller, Indiana	F	6-11	230	Fr.	Washington, Ind.

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