For the second consecutive season, Gonzaga men’s basketball senior Graham Ike was tabbed to the 2025 Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year award watch list. Ike
Ike, who’s now featured on three prominent watch lists for national awards entering the 2024-25 campaign, is one of the 20 early-season candidates in contention for the best collegiate power forward award. He’s also among the four returning candidates from the 2023-24 midseason top 10 watch list, as Washington’s Great Osobor, UConn’s Alex Karaban and Baylor’s Norchad Omier are also back on the ballot to start the new season.
Ike earned his way onto a handful of prestigious award lists ahead of his final year of college basketball after finishing last season as one of the most productive and skilled low-post bigs in the country. The 6-foot-9 Colorado native averaged 16.5 points and 7.4 rebounds per game while shooting 71.5% at the rim, perIke also became the sixth player in West Coast Conference history to pace the league in both scoring and field goal percentage in the same season .
Along with the Karl Malone Award, Ike has been tabbed to the NABC Player of the Year watch list and the Naismith Trophy watch list. The Zags face a big test to tip off the college basketball season as they take on No. 8 Baylor and Omier at the Spokane Arena on Nov. 4. Mark Few and company will also see Karaban and the Huskies on Dec. 14.
Ike is the third Zag to be named to a watch list for a positional award, joining Ryan Nembhard and Michael Ajayi . As is the case with all positional awards, the list of 20 candidates will be trimmed to 10 in late January, then again down to five in February. The winner of the Karl Malone Award, and the other positional awards, will be announced on a to-be-determined date.Cole Forsman is a reporter for Gonzaga Bulldogs On SI.
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