to it since Ed O’Bannon in 1995. Jaquez led UCLA to it first regular-season title since 2013, averaging 17.5 points, 8.0 rebounds and 2.4 assists while starting all 31 games. He currently ranks fourth among all Pac-12 players in scoring and fifth in rebounding.

Jaquez wasn’t the only member of the No. 2-ranked Bruins (27-4) to earn Pac-12 Conference honors. Similar to how UCLA wins games on the court, the shine was divvied up quite well.

Tyger Campbell was named to the Pac-12’s first team. It’s the third consecutive season Campbell has been named to the first team and Jaquez’s second.

Jaylen Clark was named the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year, becoming just the third player to win the award and the first since Russell Westbrook (2008). Clark was also named to the All-Defensive team and the Pac-12 second-team.

Adem Bona, the 6-foot-10 forward, was named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, earned All-Defensive team honors and also received an honorable mention all-conference selection. Bona and guard Amari Bailey were named to the five-person Pac-12 All-Freshman Team.

UCLA coach Mick Cronin was named Pac-12 Coach of the Year for guiding the Bruins to an 18-2 mark in Pac-12 play after losing five substantial contributors from last year’s 27-8 team. It’s Cronin’s second Coach of the Year honor in his four seasons in Westwood.

This marks only the second time in the history of the conference in which one school captured the Player, Freshman, Defensive Player and Coach of the Year awards in the same season (also USC in 2021).

USC players honored

USC’s Boogie Ellis and Drew Peterson were named to the first-team Pac-12 team. Ellis, who said this would be his last season with the Trojans last week, finished the season averaging 18.1 points, 3.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game. Peterson, a fifth-year senior, clipped 14.1 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.5 assists.

Reese Dixon-Waters was named the Pac-12’s Sixth Man of the Year after coming off the bench 15 times in 16 conference games, averaging 9.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists in just over 25 minutes per game. He is the second USC player to earn the award, joining Glenn Smith in 1985.

Kobe Johnson and Joshua Morgan were named to the five-person All-Defensive team. Tre White was named to the All-Freshman team.

UCLA (two players), Arizona (two players), USC (two players), Colorado, Oregon, Utah and Washington State all had student-athletes selected to the 10-person first team.