Zion Williamson claimed 59 of 64 votes to win AP's men's college player of the year.
The open-court moves more nimble than his 6-foot-7, 285-pound frame should allow.Handling all that attention became maybe the biggest lesson for the freshman, who quickly became the face of college basketball and the game’s biggest star in years — then fittingly finished as The Associated Press men’s player of the year.
Williamson had hoped to be in Minneapolis preparing for Saturday’s national semifinals like Hunter and Winston. But the Blue Devils fell to Winston’s Spartans in the Elite Eight as the top overall seed. Williamson’s play was marked by breathtaking athleticism to go by, through and over anyone to get the ball .
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