Duke Basketball: Zion Williamson named to Karl Malone Watch List

Another preseason watch list was announced, and another Duke Basketball player was named to it as Zion Williamson headline the Karl Malone Award Watch List.

This makes four of the five incoming freshman all named to their positional award watch lists as Zion Williamson was named to the Karl Malone Award Watch List, given to the best power forward in the nation.

Williamson joins Tre Jones as he was named to the Bob Cousy Award Watch List, R.J. Barrett to the Jerry West List, and Cam Reddish to the Julius Erving Watch List.

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Zion joins the Blue Devils as the No. 2 Overall Recruiting according to ESPN out of Spartanburg Day School in Spartanburg, South Carolina and figures to be a prominent player in the Duke rotation throughout the season.

The only two ACC players to be named to the watch list are Williamson and North Carolina’s Luke Maye.

Along with Williamson, the only other freshman that was selected to the Karl Malone Award Watch List was Simi Shittu of Vanderbilt and Jordan Brown of Nevada.

Other players that join Williamson and Maye on the list are; BYU’s Yoeli Childs, Indiana’s Juwan Morgan, Kansas State’s Dean Wade, Kentucky’s Reid Travis and P.J. Washington, Minnesota’s Jordan Murphy, Northern Kentucky’s Drew McDonald, South Carolina’s Chris Silva, South Dakota State’s Mike Daum, Tennessee’s Grant Williams, UNC-Wilmington’s Devontae Cacok, USC’s Bennie Boatwright, Villanova’s Eric Paschall, Washington’s Noah Dickerson, and West Virginia’s Sagaba Konate.

As Zion Williamson and the rest of the Duke Basketball team will unofficially tipoff the 2018-19 season tomorrow night at Countdown To Craziness, the Blue Devils will officially get their season underway against Kentucky on November 6 in the Champions Classic.

The anticipation to see Zion Williamson on the Cameron Indoor court is growing by the day and at least we will get a sneak peak tomorrow evening.

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