A number of Jayhawks earned Big 12 honors, but Kansas coach Bill Self wanted one more
Kansas Jayhawks center Hunter Dickinson has made the All-Big 12 First Team in men’s basketball, the conference announced on Monday afternoon.
The Jayhawks big man’s inclusion on the 10-player first team marks the second straight season he’s garnered the honor. Dickinson averaged 17.4 points and 9.9 rebounds per game during the 2024-25 season.
A couple of other KU players also earned postseason conference honors.
Kansas guard Zeke Mayo was a third-team all-conference selection and made the Big 12 All-Newcomer Team. A transfer from South Dakota State and Lawrence native, he averaged 14 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3 assists this season.
Finally, KU guard Dajaun Harris earned All-Big 12 Honorable Mention for the third consecutive season. He averaged 9.1 points and 5.7 assists per game this year.
KU has now had 38 All-Big 12 First Team selections over the 29 years of the Big 12’s existence. The Jayhawks also lead the Big 12 with an all-time 162 player garnering All-Big 12 honors. Baylor is second with 123.
KU coach Bill Self had just one grievance with this year’s list of Big 12 postseason accolades: the snub of forward KJ Adams.
“I’d say I thought KJ deserved at least an honorable mention deal,” Self said. “All that honorable mention is is just one coach in your league has to vote and it can’t be me, but one coach in the league has to vote for somebody for the third team, if I’m not mistaken. You’ve just got to get one vote somewhere.
“So I’m disappointed in that, because obviously to me he is (worthy of mention). But when you really look at it, you’ve got 10 guys on the first team and just five on the second, third team, if I’m not mistaken.
“And then you’ve got 10 or so, or 12, on honorable mention, and I don’t think anybody in our league that’s a coach that’s coached against KJ wouldn’t feel like he’s one of the best 32 players in our league. That would be the biggest disappointment to me. But everything else was pretty much true to form.”
The Jayhawks start postseason play in the Big 12 Tournament on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at T-Mobile Center in Kansas City. No. 6-seeded KU plays the winner of a Tuesday UCF/Utah matchup in Round 2 of the tourney.
Until then, here are all of the Big 12 men’s hoops honors for the 2024-25 season:
Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Awards, 2024-25
Player of the Year: JT Toppin, Texas Tech
Defensive Player of the Year: Joseph Tugler, Houston
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: LJ Cryer, Houston
Freshman of the Year: VJ Edgecombe, Baylor
Newcomer of the Year: JT Toppin, Texas Tech
Sixth Man Award: Curtis Jones, Iowa State
Most Improved: Richie Saunders, BYU
Coach of the Year: Kelvin Sampson, Houston
All-Big 12 First Team
Caleb Love, Arizona
Norchad Omier, Baylor
Richie Saunders, BYU
LJ Cryer, Houston
J’Wan Roberts, Houston
Curtis Jones, Iowa State
Hunter Dickinson, Kansas
JT Toppin, Texas Tech*
Darrion Williams, Texas Tech
Javon Small, West Virginia
All-Big 12 Second Team
VJ Edgecombe, Baylor
Keyshawn Hall, UCF
Milos Uzan, Houston
Joshua Jefferson, Iowa State
Chance McMillian, Texas Tech
All-Big 12 Third Team
Joseph Tugler, Houston
Zeke Mayo, Kansas
Coleman Hawkins, Kansas State
Keshon Gilbert, Iowa State
Tamin Lipsey, Iowa State
Honorable Mention: Arizona: Tobe Awaka, Henri Veesaar; Baylor: Robert Wright; BYU: Egor Demin; UCF: Darius Johnson; Cincinnati: Jizzle James; Colorado: Julian Hammond III; Houston: Emanuel Sharp; Kansas: Dajuan Harris Jr.; Kansas State: David N’Guessan; Oklahoma State: Bryce Thompson; TCU: Noah Reynolds, Ernest Udeh Jr.; Utah: Gabe Madsen
All-Defensive Team
Jayden Quaintance, Arizona State
J’Wan Roberts, Houston
Joseph Tugler, Houston
Tamin Lipsey, Iowa State
Sencire Harris, West Virginia
All-Freshman Team
Jayden Quaintance, Arizona State
VJ Edgecombe, Baylor
Robert Wright, Baylor
Egor Demin, BYU
Christian Anderson, Texas Tech
All-Newcomer Team
Norchad Omier, Baylor
Keyshawn Hall, UCF
Joshua Jefferson, Iowa State
Zeke Mayo, Kansas
JT Toppin, Texas Tech
