OU’s Hield gets another player of year trophy

Oklahoma senior guard Buddy Hield has won the James A. Naismith Trophy as the nation’s top college player.

The award presented by the Atlanta Tipoff Club was announced Sunday, a day after Hield was held to nine points in the Sooners’ 95-51 loss to Villanova in a national semifinal game.

Villanova coach Jay Wright, whose Wildcats (34-5) play North Carolina on Monday night for the national championship, was named the Naismith coach of the year for the second time. He joined three-time winners John Calipari and Mike Krzyzewski as the only coaches to win the award multiple times.

Hield, the two-time Big 12 Player of the Year, averaged 25 points a game. He also won the Oscar Robertson Trophy presented by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and finished a close second to Michigan State’s Denzel Valentine for The Associated Press Player of the Year Award.

Coack K recovering: Duke said Hall of Fame men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski is recovering from knee replacement surgery.

Krzyzewski had surgery at Duke University Hospital. The school said in a news release that the 69-year-old coach could be released within three days and will begin a rehabilitation program.

Michael P. Bolognesi, the joint replacement orthopedic surgeon who performed the procedure, said in a statement that Krzyzewski can put “as much weight as he tolerates on the implant right away.”

Krzyzewski has won a Division I men’s record 1,043 games, with 970 of those coming at Duke along with five NCAA titles with the Blue Devils. Krzyzewski will also coach the U.S. men’s national team this summer in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.