Oregon picked up two Pac-12 honors on Monday.
Joseph Young was selected as the 2014-15 Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Player of the Year and head coach Dana Altman was named the John R. Wooden Coach of the Year.
Young’s Pac-12 leading 19.8 points per game was enough to take the award over Arizona’s Stanley Johnson and T.J. McConnell. The senior guard also led the league in free throw percentage (.918) and three-point field goals made per game (2.5). Young is now the fourth Oregon player to win the award, joining Ron Lee (1975-76), Terrell Brandon (1990-91) and Luke Ridnour (2002-03) as one of Oregon’s all-time greats.
Dana Altman became the first Oregon coach to win Coach of the Year honors twice (2013, 2015). He put together arguably his most impressive coaching season to date. The Ducks were picked to finish eighth in the Pac-12 this season, but under Altman’s leadership, went on a 9-1 streak to end the season and finished second in the Pac-12 standings with a final record of 23-8(13-5).
Altman now has 18 consecutive winning seasons as a head coach and has led Oregon to its most successful era ever, with a school-record five consecutive seasons with 20 or more wins.
Elgin Cook was selected to the second All-Pac-12 team, while Dillon Brooks and Jordan Bell were added to the All-Freshman Team.
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