Both senior guard Devoe Joseph and junior forward E.J. Singler were named to the Pac-12 All-Conference teams on Monday, with Joseph occupying one of 10 spots on the first team and Singler garnering second-team honors.
Joseph, a native of Toronto who averaged a team-best 16.8 points on the season, is the first Duck to play his way onto the Pac-12 first team since Aaron Brooks back in 2007. The senior transfer from Minnesota also led the Ducks in field goals made (140), field goals attempted (290) and minutes played per game (34.8), while shooting an impressive .445 from three-point range. In all, Oregon was 18-6 with him in the lineup. (By rule, Joseph was forced to sit out through the end of fall quarter after transferring.)
Singler, meanwhile, averaged 13.3 points per game while totaling a team-high 166 rebounds (5.5 per game) and leading the Pac-12 in free throw shooting percentage (.907). As of Monday, that percentage was also the second best in the nation (behind Central Connecticut State’s Robby Ptacek). Singler is also the only Duck besides Garrett Sim to start all 30 games in 2011-12.
Sim, for his part, was named an honorable mention after averaging 12.3 points per game on .467 shooting from three (second in the Pac-12). Junior center Tony Woods (1.5 blocks per game) was an honorable mention on the all-defensive team.
Any hopes that Oregon would earn some of the most prestigious conference awards were quelled when California’s Jorge Gutierrez took home Player of the Year and Washington’s Lorenzo Romar was named Coach of the Year. Both Joseph and Oregon head coach Dana Altman were considered strong candidates for their respective categories. Gutierrez was also named Defensive Player of the Year, and Washington’s Tony Wroten earned Freshman of the Year honors.