On Sunday, Self’s conference counterparts demonstrated they were in agreement when they named Kansas senior Ochai Agbaji the 2022 Big 12 Player of the Year.

“So often, postseason accolades come from not only individual success but primarily from the team’s success and we’re proud to get a piece of the Big 12 championship,” Kansas coach Bill Self said in a Sunday news release. “Ochai has had a great year and deserved being a unanimous selection for player of the year and All-Big 12 first team.

Agbaji was one of two unanimous picks by the conference’s coaches for first-team honors, joining Texas Tech’s Bryson Williams with that distinction.

Baylor’s James Akinjo, Kansas State’s Nijel Pack and Iowa State’s Izaiah Brockington were the other first-team selections.

KU junior Christian Braun earned second-team honors, while Jalen Wilson and David McCormack were third-team picks. KU point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. was named to the five-man all-defensive team and also landed honorable mention all-Big 12 honors. Freshman forward KJ Adams was named to the five-man all-freshman team.

“With Christian on second team, David and Jalen on third team and Dajuan honorable mention, and on the all-defensive team, all five starters were recognized and deservedly so,” Self said. “With KJ being on the all-freshman team, we are proud to have six players honored. I’m happy for them, as this is more of a reflection their individual performances and the team’s accomplishments.”

In leading the Jayhawks (25-6 overall, 14-4 Big 12) to a share of the Big 12 regular season title, Agbaji led the conference in scoring at 19.8 points per game.

His eight-point outing on Saturday, in sixth-ranked Kansas’ 70-63 overtime victory over No. 21 Texas, was the only time all season that he did not crack double digits in scoring. And he scored six of his eight points in overtime.

Agbaji also won four player-of-the-week honors throughout the regular season and is considered a likely first-team All-American and still in the running for national player of the year.

He ranked third in the conference in all games in field goal percentage (47.7%) second in 3-point field goal percentage (41.1%), second in 3-pointers made per game (2.87) and sev-enth in free throw percentage (76.7%). The senior guard aver-aged more minutes per game (35.2) than any other Big 12 player and led the conference with 17 20-point games.

Agbaji being named Big 12 player of the year marks the 17th time a Jayhawk has been named conference player of the year and the 10th in the Big 12 era, since 1996-97.

He joins Dave Robisch (1970, 1971), Bud Stallworth (1972), Danny Manning (1986, 1987, 1988) and Jacque Vaughn (1996) from the Big Eight era and Raef LaFrentz (1997), Drew Gooden (2002), Nick Collison (2003), Wayne Simien (2005), Marcus Morris (2011), Thomas Robinson (2012), Frank Mason III (2017), Devonte’ Graham (2018) and Udoka Azubuike (2020) in the Big 12 era.

In the 26-year history of the Big 12, Kansas has fielded 34 all-Big 12 first team selections, which is more than twice as many as any other school.

KU has had a first-team honoree in 23 of the 26 seasons of the league and leads the Big 12 with an all-time high 141 student-athletes named to all-Big 12 teams. Texas is second with 112 and Baylor ranks third with 101 selections.

2021-22 All-Big 12 Team

(As selected conference coaches; x – unanimous selection)

PLAYER OF THE YEAR – x Ochai Agbaji, Kansas (Sr., G)

Co-Defensive Player of the Year – Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua, Baylor (Jr., F), Moussa Cisse, Oklahoma State (So., F), Gabe Osabuohien, West Virginia (Sr., F)

Newcomer of the Year – Izaiah Brockington, Iowa State (Sr., G)

Freshman of the Year – Tyrese Hunter, Iowa State (Fr., G)

Sixth Man Award – Jeremy Sochan, Baylor (Fr., F)

Most Improved Player – Nijel Pack (So., G)

Coach of the Year – Scott Drew, Baylor

All-Big 12 First Team

x Ochai Agbaji, Kansas (Sr., G)

James Akinjo, Baylor (Sr., G)

Izaiah Brockington, Iowa State (Sr., G)

Nijel Pack, Kansas State (So., G)

x Bryson Williams, Texas Tech (Gr., F)

All-Big 12 Second Team

Adam Flagler, Baylor (Jr., G)

Christian Braun, Kansas (Jr., G)

Mike Miles Jr., TCU (So., G)

Timmy Allen, Texas (Sr., F)

Taz Sherman, West Virginia (Sr., G)

All-Big 12 Third Team

David McCormack, Kansas (Sr., F)

Jalen Wilson, Kansas (RS-So., F)

Mark Smith, Kansas State (Sr., G)

Avery Anderson III, Oklahoma State (Jr., G)

Marcus Carr, Texas (Sr., G)

All-Big 12 Honorable Mention (Listed alphabetically by school):

Matthew Mayey (Baylor), Jeremy Sochan (Baylor), Dajuan Harris Jr. (Kansas), Markquis Nowell (K-State), Umoja Gibson (Oklahoma), Jordan Goldwire (Oklahoma), Tanner Groves (Oklahoma), Elijah Harkless (Oklahoma), Damion Baugh (TCU), Emanuel Miller (TCU), Christian Bishop (Texas), Andrew Jones (Texas), Courtney Ramey (Texas), Adonis Arms (Texas Tech), Kevin McCullar (Texas Tech), Kevin Obanor (Texas Tech), Marcus Santos-Silva (Texas Tech), Sean McNeil (West Virginia)

Big 12 All-Defensive Team

Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua, Baylor (Jr., F)

Dajuan Harris Jr., Kansas (RS-So., G)

Markquis Nowell, Kansas State (Jr., G)

Moussa Cisse, Oklahoma State (So., F)

Gabe Osabuohien, West Virginia (Sr., F)

Big 12 All-Newcomer Team

James Akinjo, Baylor (Sr., G)

Izaiah Brockington, Iowa State (Sr., G)

Mark Smith, Kansas State (Sr., G)

Timmy Allen, Texas (Sr., F)

x Bryson Williams, Texas Tech (Gr., F).

Big 12 All-Freshman Team

x Jeremy Sochan, Baylor (F)

x Kendall Brown, Baylor (G/F)

KJ Adams Jr., Kansas (F)

x Tyrese Hunter, Iowa State (G)

C.J. Noland, Oklahoma (G)