WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Naismith Basketball Memorial Hall of Fame has announced that Trey Kaufman-Renn is one of 20 players named to the Karl Malone Award watch list, given to the nation’s top power forward.
Kaufman-Renn is joined on the list by Big Ten counterparts Alvaro Folgueiras (Iowa), Yaxel Lendeborg (Michigan) and Tyler Bilodeau (UCLA).
Kaufman-Renn, a senior forward from Sellersburg, Indiana, was named to the watch list after averaging 20.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.2 assists a year ago while shooting just under 60 percent the field. Kaufman-Renn, a first-team All-Big Ten honoree a year ago, is the only returning high-major player nationally from last season to average at least 20 points, six rebounds and two assists per game.
Kaufman-Renn has scored in double-figures in eight straight games and finished last year with 723 points, the 10th-most points scored by a Purdue player in school history. He had 12, 20-point games in the last 15 contests last season.
Purdue opens its regular season on Nov. 4, when Evansville visits Mackey Arena.