{"id":944204,"date":"2026-10-28T17:52:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944204\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:52:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:52:14","slug":"amari-allen-named-to-the-2026-27-julius-erving-award-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/944204\/","title":{"rendered":"Amari Allen Named to the 2026-27 Julius Erving Award Watch List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUSCALOOSA, Ala. \u2013\u00a0Alabama men&#8217;s basketball sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/rolltide.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/amari-allen\/18064\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"18064\" target=\"_blank\">Amari Allen<\/a> is one of 20 candidates selected to the 2026-27 Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award Watch List, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Julius Erving Award, named after the Class of 1993 Hall of Famer and 17-year professional basketball player, celebrates its 13th year by recognizing the top small forward in NCAA Division I men&#8217;s college basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Allen Notes<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tNamed to the SEC All-Freshman Team&#13;<br \/>\n\tA three-time SEC Freshman of the Week honoree&#13;<br \/>\n\tPlayed in 32 games including 24 starts&#13;<br \/>\n\tAveraged 11.4 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game&#13;<br \/>\n\tBecame the first UA freshman to grab 10 or more rebounds in multiple games since Noah Clowney and Brandon Miller during the 2022-23 season&#13;<br \/>\n\tRanked sixth in the SEC in rebounds per game (6.9 rpg)&#13;<br \/>\n\tScored double-figures in 20 games including scoring a season-high 25 points on Jan. 7 at Vanderbilt&#13;<br \/>\n\tPosted a team-best five double-doubles throughout the season, which ranked No. 10 in the SEC&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TUSCALOOSA, Ala. \u2013\u00a0Alabama men&#8217;s basketball sophomore Amari Allen is one of 20 candidates selected to the 2026-27 Julius&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-944204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}