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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Oct. 31, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Baylor’s Omier named to Karl Malone Award Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-style:normal">BU’s Johnathan Motley won the award in 2017
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information, contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, </span><a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">WACO, Texas —
</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Baylor men’s basketball forward Norchad Omier was named to the Karl Malone Award Watch List Thursday, honoring the nation's top power forward.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">The Karl Malone award is the only Naismith starting five honor a Baylor Bear has won, as Johnathan Motley took home the distinction in
2017. Omier made the preseason watch list his last two seasons at Miami, making the top 10 in each of those seasons.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black;background:white">The Bluefields, Nicaragua, native was s<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">elected to the Preseason All-Big
12 Second Team earlier this month. In his</span></strong> two seasons with Miami, he helped the Hurricanes to the first Final Four in program history in 2023 and averaged a career-best 17.0 points and 10.0 rebounds per game, earning a spot on the All-ACC Second
Team. He was also honored with the Skip Prosser Award for men's basketball last season, given to the top scholar-athlete in ACC men's basketball. Prior to that, the 6-foot-7 big man was a standout at Arkansas State, garnering all-conference accolades, as highlighted
by his 2022 Sunbelt Player of the Year nod. <strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Omier is
</span></strong>the first person from Nicaragua to receive a Division I basketball scholarship.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.25pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black;background:white">One of five Big 12 honorees, Omier will compete against Arizona's Carter Bryant, Houston's J’Wan Roberts, Kansas State’s Coleman Hawkins and
Texas Tech’s JT Toppin within the league. In addition to those four players, the Bears will see two more of the honorees in the non-conference slate, facing Gonzaga’s Graham Ike and UConn’s Alex Karaban.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">The list will change throughout the season, allowing players to play their way on or off the list. It will be trimmed to 10 in early February,
with the final five being announced a month later. The winner will be unveiled at the Final Four in San Antonio, Texas, on April 4<sup>th</sup>.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Fan voting presented by Dell Technologies is now open, with the player who earns the most votes getting an additional vote from the committee. For
any additional information, please visit the official website:</span></strong><span style="color:black;background:white"> </span><a href="http://www.hoophallawards.com/" target="_blank" title="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hoophallawards.com%2F&data=05%7C02%7CWM_Roberts%40baylor.edu%7C6bf6178617c1433782ee08dcf3842f39%7C22d2fb35256a459bbcf4dc23d42dc0a4%7C0%7C0%7C638652996440447584%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8ey"><span style="background:white">http://www.hoophallawards.com/</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white">.<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">For additional updates, follow @BaylorMBB on X, Instagram and Facebook.<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.baylorbears.com/">www.BaylorBears.com</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><strong><u><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">2024-25 Season Awards</span></u></strong><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">VJ Edgecombe</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Preseason Big 12 Freshman of the Year<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Jerry West Award Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Naismith Trophy Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Norchad Omier<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">NABC Player of the Year Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Naismith Trophy Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Karl Malone Award Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Jeremy Roach<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Big 12 co-Newcomer of the Year</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Preseason All-Big 12 Second Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Bob Cousy Award Watch List<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Naismith Trophy Watch List</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
C: 254-227-2280</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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