Ochai Agbaji

Ochai Agbaji has polished his game over four years at Kansas and the star senior is looking like a lottery pick in the 2022 NBA Draft following the ...

The biggest knock on Agbaji's game is that he isn't much of a shot creator. His breakaway speed makes him a terror in transition, running lanes with a purpose to beat his opponents up the floor for easy baskets. He averaged 1.6 assists per game this season (which is also his career average at Kansas). He only had more than three assists in three of his 38 games played this year and he's not much of an offensive initiator or pick-and-roll ball handler. He always had the strength, speed and burst, and leaping ability of an NBA prospect but his skill was lagging behind a bit, leaving his potential role as a pro in question. Agbaji has a lightning-quick release on his jumper. Now, he's looking like one of the best 3-and-D prospects this year's draft class has to offer.

Against North Carolina, Agbaji finished with 12 points on 4-of-9 shooting, but he led the Jayhawks in scoring in the first half with eight points when Kansas ...

And Jalen Wilson added 11 points, 12 rebounds and five assists against Villanova while tying McCormack with a team-high 15 in the finale. Then there's David McCormack, who clubbed Villanova with a 25-point, nine-rebound effort, then had 15 points and 10 rebounds against North Carolina, including Kansas' final four points. Kansas All-American Ochai Agbaji was named the 2022 Final Four Most Outstanding Player on Monday night following the Jayhawks' record-breaking comeback to top North Carolina 72-69 in the national championship game.

The Jayhawks senior once wasn't sure he'd even be offered a KU scholarship. Now he's being compared to Danny Manning.

Must read content, player grades, stuff you can't get anywhere else. Must read content, player grades, stuff you can't get anywhere else. On Feb. 3, 2018, Agbaji turned to his father and incredulously decreed, “Kansas just offered me a scholarship,’’ as if the very idea of such a thing was preposterous. Do Not Sell My Personal Info Accept & Continue Accept & Continue Do Not Sell My Personal Info “I love you guys,’’ he said as he returned to the court. Only then did Agbaji reluctantly separate himself from his family, his own eyes wet with tears.

Monday's NCAA championship game is especially exciting for a few local high schools who have alumni playing for the University of Kansas.

There is a buzz among students and staff at Blue Valley northwest High School as well. She said everyone has been cheering him on during the season and can't wait to watch him Monday night. An Agbaji shrine sits outside of Robin Marsh's classroom.

Ochai Agbaji played basketball with his No. 30 jersey at Oak Park High School in Kansas City, and Christian Braun was No.0 at Blue Valley Northwest in ...

Already Big 12 player of the year and a first-team All-American, senior guard leads KU to fourth NCAA men's basketball championship in win over UNC Tar ...

“If I really had a most outstanding player throughout the entire Final Four it would be David,” Agbaji added of David McCormack, who scored 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds against Carolina and had two huge baskets in the final minute and a half. Self nodded his approval when told on the court by a Kansas City Star reporter that Agbaji had been voted most outstanding player. These goals and dreams that we’re living right now we never would have thought it when we first stepped foot on campus, but now living it and living it with him and leaving here with history and history in our name it just means so much to the both of us and obviously Mitch (Lightfoot) and all the guys here.” “Coach talked to me about it. “But he’s second. “No, he’s not in Kansas basketball history.

Kansas Jayhawks senior guard Ochai Agbaji was named the 2022 NCAA tournament's Most Outstanding Player following his team's 72-69 win over the UNC Tar Heels ...

His best game of the tournament came against Villanova in the Final Four when he put up 21 points, two rebounds, one assist and one block to lift the Jayhawks to the title game. Through the first three seasons of his college career, he was projected to be a second-round pick. Agbaji finished Monday's championship game with 12 points, three rebounds, one assist, one steal and one block.

New Orleans — Kansas guard Ochai Agbaji was named the most outstanding player of the NCAA Tournament on Monday following the Jayhawks' 72-69 victory over ...

He is expected to be chosen in the first round of the NBA Draft, which will be held June 23. "If I really had a most outstanding player throughout the entire Final Four, it would be David." "He's the most accomplished player that we have had at our university since Danny (Manning)," coach Bill Self said.

Kansas senior Ochai Agbaji was named the Final Four most outstanding player after the Jayhawks beat North Carolina for the 2022 NCAA national title.

Martin had just transferred in from Arizona State. And with kids making up part of the opposition, Martin couldn’t help but play with energy. He even spent last summer working out with NBA star Damian Lillard. He’d tested the NBA waters, hoping to be lured by the league, but the feedback told him to stay another year. Agbaji was ranked as the 334th best player in his class. Here’s the teams’ history It was February of his senior year when the Jayhawks offered him a scholarship. This is why he came back. They think of it as vindication for what they always knew was possible. Self red-shirted Agbaji his freshman year, thinking, hey, certainly this kid is going to stay all five years, not just four. I mean, you knew, from seeing him in practice freshman year, the potential. His mother, Erica, prepared for a conversation about the next steps. Agbaji contemplated whether he needed to take a lower-level offer for fear that it, too, would be removed from the table if he let it sit there too long. Just to share that moment with them, man, that was special.”

NEW ORLEANS — Ochai Agbaji's name is already etched in Kansas Jayhawks history. His accolades include several All-Big 12 teams, including 2022 Player of the ...

Ochai Agbaji, Milwaukee born and the son of former UWM basketball players, capped a sensational senior season with a title and Final Four honor.

Ochai played right away as a freshman at KU and has morphed into the player of the year in the best men's basketball conference in the country, the Big 12, this season. He transferred into the program from Vincennes junior college in Indiana. She posted 20 career double-doubles and finds her name all over the Panthers record book in rebound and block categories.

A relatively local product out of high school, Agbaji played four seasons for head coach Bill Self and the Jayhawks. Agbaji developed into the Big 12 ...

“Having the trust of my guys, having the trust of coach, I think that obviously grows with time, your maturity and learning more about yourself and all that stuff,” Agbaji said. And behind a performance that played a part in Agbaji being named the Final Four's most outstanding player for the NCAA tournament, he took his legacy to a new height. “If I really had a most outstanding player throughout the entire Final Four, it would be David,” said Agbaji, highlighting his senior forward teammate David McCormack. “We got here at the same time. Manning, a national player of the year honoree and member of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame, among other honors, is hard to argue against. Self is putting Agbaji behind only Danny Manning, who was there Monday at Caesars Superdome to see the Jayhawks capture a national title. A national title when Agbaji is widely considered to be the best player Self can put on the floor, changes things.

With his level of play in New Orleans, the senior was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. Between the two games, Agbaji scored 16.5 points per ...

With the Most Outstanding Player award wrapped up, Agbaji has claimed numerous individual honors in addition to the biggest team award in the country. His career averages are 13.5 points per game with 44.8 percent shooting and 37.3 percent shooting from 3 with 4.4 rebounds and 1.6 assists. “I don't really care because we won the national championship,” Agbaji said. With his level of play in New Orleans, the senior was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four. Between the two games, Agbaji scored 16.5 points per game on 58.8 percent shooting from the field. He’ll enter the NBA Draft this spring and pursue an NBA career. NEW ORLEANS, La. — Ochai Agbaji has officially put together one of the best seasons of any Kansas player in the program’s history.