Braylon Mullins Named To Juilus Erving Award Watch List

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – UConn males’s basketball freshman Braylon Mullins has been named to the Preseason Watch List for the 2026 Julius Erving Award, offered yearly by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame to the highest small ahead within the nation. The Hall of Fame is asserting the preseason watch lists for the “Starting Five” awards this week.

The honor for Mullins comes forward of the five-star freshman’s debut season in Storrs. The McDonald’s All American from Greenfield, Ind. was named ‘Mr. Basketball’ within the state of Indiana following his senior season at Greenfield-Central, the place he got here this system’s all-time main scorer and posted greater than 30 factors per sport. Mullins made his unofficial debut for Connecticut within the exhibition in opposition to Boston College on Oct. 13, getting the beginning and scoring 12 factors with a pair of 3-pointers in 16 minutes. He was named BIG EAST Preseason Freshman of the Year on Oct. 21.

Mullins joins teammates Silas Demary Jr. (Cousy) and Solo Ball (West) as members of a preseason watch record for the Starting Five awards. The trio need to add to Cousy Award winners Kemba Walker (2011), Shabazz Napier (2014) and Tristen Newton (2024) among the many all-time positional award winners in program historical past.