Pritchard Named Wooden Award All-American

Payton Pritchard earned his 13^th first team All-America honor of the season on Wednesday.

The senior from West Linn, Ore., was named to the 2020 John R. Wooden Award Presented by Wendy’s All American team by the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

Pritchard is the fourth Duck named to the all-Wooden team, joining Greg Ballard (1977), Aaron Brooks (2007) and Dillon Brooks (2017).

He is one of five national finalists for both the Naismith Trophy and the Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award. The Naismith Trophy will be awarded Friday, while the Cousy Award will be presented on Tuesday. Pritchard was also named the recipient of the 2019-20 Lute Olson Award, which is presented annually to the nation’s top Division I player, last week by CollegeInsider.com.

The 2020 Pac-12 Player of the Year was one of just three players nationally to average at least 20 points, four rebounds and five assists per game and was one of just four players in the country who led his conference in both scoring (20.5 points per game) and assists (5.6 per game).

Named Oregon’s first consensus first team All-American in 80 years last week, Pritchard helped Oregon to an outright Pac-12 regular season title, the Ducks’ third in the last five years. Oregon finished 24-7 overall (13-5 in the conference).

He joined Gary Payton (Oregon State, 1989-90), Damon Stoudamire (Arizona, 1994-95) and Jason Terry (Arizona, 1998-99) as the only players in conference history to lead the league in both scoring and assists. Like Pritchard, the previous three players to do that were all consensus first team All-Americans and Payton and Terry were National Players of the Year. Pritchard also led the league with 88 three-pointers, joining Stoudamire (112) as the only players to top all three categories in the same season.

Named the national player of the week by three different organizations this season (Naismith Trophy, Oscar Robertson Trophy, NCAA.com) and twice named Pac-12 player of the week, Pritchard led the nation with 140 consecutive starts.

He is the only player in Pac-12 history with 1,900 career points, 600 career assists and 500 career rebounds.

Pritchard finished his career as school record holder in assists (659), wins (105) games played (144) and games started (140). He ranks second in both UO career steals with 211 and three-pointers with 288. His 1,938 career points rank fourth all-time at Oregon.

Pritchard scored at least 20 points against 10 different Pac-12 opponents this season.

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