Henry Ellenson, Jalen Brunson featured on USBWA's Wayman Tisdale Award watch list

Henry Ellenson (Marquette Golden Eagles) and Jalen Brunson (Villanova Wildcats) were named to the 2015-16 Wayman Tisdale Award watch list on Wednesday.

Annually, the USBWA issues the Wayman Tisdale Award out to the top freshman player in the country. Ellenson and Brunson join a loaded field of youngsters including Jamal Murray (Kentucky Wildcats), Cheick Diallo (Kansas Jayhawks), Ben Simmons (LSU Tigers), Caleb Swanigan (Purdue Boilermakers) and Jaylen Brown (California Golden Bears) among others on the list.

You can view the full Wayman Tisdale Award watch list and the release by the USBWA here.