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Blake Griffin Wins the 2009 Naismith

Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin practices for a men's NCAA tournament regional semifinal college basketball game in Memphis, Tenn., Thursday, March 26, 2009. Oklahoma  will play Syracuse Friday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

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10 months ago: Oklahoma forward Blake Griffin practices for a men's NCAA tournament regional semifinal college basketball game in Memphis, Tenn., Thursday, March 26, 2009. Oklahoma will play Syracuse Friday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Not surprisingly, Blake Griffin was announced as the 2009 Naismith Award winner today. That pretty much makes it a clean sweep of the postseason hardware for Blake, which is something just about everyone could have predicted right around the turn of the New Year.

Also, this makes history as OU is the first school to ever have a Heisman and Naismith winner in the same year. Congratulations to both Sam Bradford and Blake Griffin, and the OU athletics department in general for its continued excellence.

The next important date for Griffin? April 26th, which is the deadline to declare for the draft. Basically we'll know in the next three weeks whether Blake is staying, although I'll say that personally I would be shocked if he was returning.

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I don't see any way he returns

but it has been fun watching him the last two years.

Bradford/Griffin – Great accomplishments for OU!

by ccmachine on Apr 5, 2009 9:50 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

+1

…but what if he saw Tyler Hansborough win a championship after coming back and….
never mind. He’s not coming back. I’m just glad that he was a Sooner.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer

by Sooner Vince on Apr 6, 2009 11:05 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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