Baylor MBB Picks Up Numerous All-Big 12 Honors

[Kaye, David]

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – March 6, 2022

Baylor MBB Picks Up Numerous All-Big 12 Honors
Drew becomes first to win three-straight Big 12 Coach of the Year honors
For more information, contact: David Kaye, 254-709-5147, David_Kaye at baylor.edu<mailto:David_Kaye at baylor.edu>

IRVING, Texas – Baylor men’s basketball picked up numerous All-Big 12 awards, led by head coach Scott Drew becoming the first in league history to win three-straight Big 12 Coach of the Year honors and Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua being named Big 12 co-Defensive Player of the Year, as announced Sunday evening by the league office. The 2021-22 Phillips 66 Big 12 Awards were chosen by the league’s head coach, who were not permitted to vote for their own players.

Joining Drew and Tchamwa Tchatchoua in picking up individual honors was freshman Jeremy Sochan, who was named the Big 12 Sixth Man Award winner. Sochan is the third Baylor player to win the award in the last five seasons and the sixth BU player named Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year since 2009, joining LaceDarius Dunn (2009), Quincy Acy (2011), Taurean Prince (2015), Terry Maston (2018) and Devonte Bandoo (2020).

Four Bears were selected to the All-Big 12 teams, with James Akinjo named to the All-Big 12 First Team, Adam Flagler on the Second Team and Matthew Mayer and Sochan tabbed All-Big 12 Honorable Mention.

Kendall Brown and Sochan were unanimous selections on the Big 12 All-Freshman Team, Akinjo was named to the Big 12 All-Newcomer Team and Tchamwa Tchatchoua was honored on the Big 12 All-Defensive Team.

Everyday Jon’s Big 12 co-Defensive Player of the Year honor was shared when there was a three-way tie in voting between Tchamwa Tchatchoua, OSU’s Moussa Cisse and WVU’s Gabe Osabuohien. Tchamwa Tchatchoua’s selection marks a second-straight year the Bears have had a Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year honoree after Davion Mitchell became the first conference Defensive Player of the Year in program history a season ago.

Drew has been tabbed Big 12 Coach of the Year each of the last three seasons after leading the Bears to a combined 42-8 conference record since 2020. Despite being picked to finish third in the preseason, Baylor claimed its second-consecutive Big 12 Championship, becoming the first team other than Kansas to win consecutive Big 12 titles since Iowa State in 2000-01. Drew (2020, 2021, 2022) joins Rick Barnes (1999, 2003, 2008, 2014) and Bill Self (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018) as the only coaches to win three or more Big 12 Coach of the Year honors.

Baylor Athletics became the first program in Big 12 history to win football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball Big 12 regular-season titles in the same season (2021-22). The Bears were already the only Big 12 program to win all three of those titles in the same calendar year (2021).

Baylor men’s basketball finished with a school-record 26 regular-season victories. The Bears are currently ranked No. 3 nationally and will be ranked in the AP Top-10 for a 47th-straight week when the updated rankings are released Monday. Baylor has topped the 25-win mark in each of the last three seasons and seven times in the last 13 years. Prior to 2010, Baylor reached the 25-win mark just once in the program’s first 103 seasons.

No. 2 seed Baylor opens play at the 2022 Big 12 Championship with a quarterfinal matchup against No. 7 seed Oklahoma at 6 p.m. CT on ESPN. The winner of that game will face the winner of Thursday’s 8:30 p.m. quarterfinal between No. 3 seed Texas Tech and No. 6 seed Iowa State. That semifinal game is scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Friday, and the championship game is at 5 p.m. Saturday.

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2022 ALL-BIG 12 AWARDS
Coach of the Year: Scott Drew, Baylor
Player of the Year: Ochai Agbaji, Kansas
Sixth Man Award: Jeremy Sochan, Baylor
Most Improved Player: Nijel Pack, Kansas State
Defensive Players of the Year: Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua, Baylor; Moussa Cisse; Oklahoma State
Gabe Osabuohien, West Virginia
Newcomer of the Year: Izaiah Brockington, Iowa State
Freshman of the Year: Tyrese Hunter, Iowa State

All-Big 12 First Team
James Akinjo, Baylor
Izaiah Brockington, Iowa State
Ochai Agbaji, Kansas
Nijel Pack, Kansas State
Bryson Williams, Texas Tech

All-Big 12 Second Team
Adam Flagler, Baylor
Christian Braun, Kansas
Mike Miles Jr., TCU
Timmy Allen, Texas
Taz Sherman, West Virginia

All-Big 12 Third Team
David McCormack, Kansas
Jalen Wilson, Kansas
Mark Smith, Kansas State
Avery Anderson III, Oklahoma State
Marcus Carr, Texas

All-Big 12 Honorable Mention: Matthew Mayer (Baylor), Jeremy Sochan (Baylor), Dajuan Harris Jr. (Kansas), Markquis Nowell (K-State), Umoja Gibson (Oklahoma),
Jordan Goldwire (Oklahoma), Tanner Groves (Oklahoma), Elijah Harkless (Oklahoma), Damion Baugh (TCU), Emanuel Miller (TCU), Christian Bishop (Texas), Andrew Jones (Texas), Courtney Ramey (Texas), Adonis Arms (Texas Tech), Kevin McCullar (Texas Tech), Kevin Obanor (Texas Tech), Marcus Santos-Silva (Texas Tech), Sean McNeil (West Virginia)

Big 12 All-Defensive Team
Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua, Baylor
Dajuan Harris Jr., Kansas
Markquis Nowell, Kansas State
Moussa Cisse, Oklahoma State
Gabe Osabuohien, West Virginia

Big 12 All-Newcomer Team
James Akinjo, Baylor
Izaiah Brockington, Iowa State
Mark Smith, Kansas State
Timmy Allen, Texas
Bryson Williams, Texas Tech*

Big 12 All-Freshman Team
Jeremy Sochan, Baylor*
Kendall Brown, Baylor*
KJ Adams Jr., Kansas
Tyrese Hunter, Iowa State*
C.J. Noland, Oklahoma

* - unanimous selections

BAYLOR MBB 2021-22 SEASON HONORS
James Akinjo
All-Big 12 First Team
Big 12 All-Newcomer team
Bob Cousy Award Finalist
Midseason All-America First Team (Sporting News)
Wooden Award Midseason Top 25
Naismith Trophy Watch List
Lute Olson Award Midseason Watch List
2021 Battle 4 Atlantis MVP
Big 12 Newcomer of the Week (Feb. 14)
Big 12 Newcomer of the Week (Jan. 10)
Big 12 Player of the Week (Jan. 3)

Kendall Brown
Big 12 All-Freshman Team
Julius Erving Award Top 10 Watch List
Big 12 Newcomer of the Week (Dec. 20)
2021 Battle 4 Atlantis All-Tournament Team

Scott Drew
Big 12 Coach of the Year (third-straight)
Naismith Men’s College Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List

Adam Flagler
All-Big 12 Second Team
Big 12 Player of the Week (Jan. 10)
Academic All-Big 12 Second Team
Jerry West Award Top 10 Watch List
Naismith Trophy Watch List
Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 Watch List
Lute Olson Award Watch List

Matthew Mayer
All-Big 12 Honorable Mention
Naismith Trophy Watch List
Wooden Award Preseason Top 50 Watch List

Mitchell Paul
Academic All-Big 12 First Team

Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua
Big 12 Defensive Player of The Year
Big 12 All-Defensive Team
Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Watch List
Academic All-Big 12 Second Team

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David Kaye | Assistant AD for Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-709-5147

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