Arizona's veteran players picked up some extra incentive this week, when none of them made the watch lists for positional awards announced by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
Neither Tobe Awaka nor Motiejus Krivas were among the 20 players named to the watch list for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award for the top center (Awaka, who will play both post positions this season, was also not named to the Karl Malone Award list for top power forward).
The only Arizona players who made the positional watch lists were freshmen: Koa Peat on the Malone list and Brayden Burries on the Jerry West shooting guard list.
However, former Arizona post player Henri Veesaar was named to the Abdul-Jabbar list Friday after transferring to North Carolina, as was former Cochise College and Washington State center Oscar Cluff, now of Purdue.
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Arizona guard Jaden Bradley (0) drives to the basket on Washington State forward Oscar Cluff (45) during the clash of Pac-12 leaders Thursday in Tucson.
