BYU's Dybantsa Finalist for Erving Award

0:00On March 11, BYU Standout, A.J. Dibonsa, is now one of five finalists for the 2026 Julius Irving Award, honoring the top small forward in. College, Basketball. The Naysmith Basketball Hall of Fame revealed the list on Wednesday, putting him alongside Florida's Thomas Hall Iowa State's Milan-Momsilovic. Tennessee's Nate Aiman, and Texas's Dailin Swain. The finalists go before a selection committee later this month, made up of coaches, media pros, and Hall of Famers. They'll pick the winner, who gets honored with other top player awards on a date still to come. Dibonsa leaves the nation and scoring at 25.2 points per game, and he just stretched his double-digit scoring streak to 32. Games. On Tuesday night, the 6-foot-9 freshmen dropped a big 12-turn-a-me record, 40 points in BYU's 105-91 win over. Kansas State hitting the 800-point mark for the season as just the 10th freshman ever to do it. He's also pulling down 6.8 rebounds, and dishing 3.9 assists per game, shooting over 50%

1:06from the field while. Logging more than 34 minutes a night, BYU keeps rolling tonight against West Virginia in the tournament's second-round at Team Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri, tipping off at 6 p.m. Central time keep an eye on Dibonsa, as he chases more hardware.