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Clearly, the Wildcats have plenty of motivation this season to prove they are that underdog story. The Wildcats are being left off the vast majority of preseason top-25 lists, and they now have motivation as individuals, too.

The Basketball Hall of Fame has been putting out 20-player "watch lists" for its five positional awards this week, and when the final one was issued today (the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award watch list of top centers), the Wildcats finished without a representative on any of them.

(CBS Sports also didn't have any UA players among in college basketball).

There were plenty of Pac-12 representatives on the Hall of Fame positional award watch lists, however:

Point guard (Bob Cousy)

Payton Pritchard, Oregon

Jaylen Hands, UCLA

Shooting guard (Jerry West)

Jaylen Nowell, Washington

Small forward (Julius Erving)

Louis King, Oregon

Tres Tinkle, Oregon State

Kris Wilkes, UCLA

Matisse Thybulle, Washington

Robert Franks, WSU

Power forward (Karl Malone)

Bennie Boatwright, USC

Noah Dickerson, Washington

Center (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)

Bol Bol, Oregon

Moses Brown, UCLA

The Hoop Hall says players can work their way onto or off the lists at any point this season.

ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥'s Deandre Ayton captured the Karl Malone Award as the nation's top power forward a season ago.

Four-star UA recruiting target Terry Armstrong is visiting New Mexico this weekend.

Official Visit

— TheDeal (@jones_deal)

Five-star class of 2020 forward Jalen Johnson is taking advantage of a new NCAA rule that allows five official visits during the junior year and another five after. 

Duke this weekend 🔵⚪�💪�

— Jalen Johnson (@Jalen_J23)

He's visiting Duke this weekend and has reportedly scheduled a on Nov. 2, with on Nov. 17.

Book Richardson has been posting some positive messages about his time at ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ on Twitter (Richardson wasn't on Twitter as a UA assistant coach but has confirmed this is now his account).

Thank you. ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ and The University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ has been my home for the last decade! The people have treated me as one of their own! No other place like this in the world!

— Book Richardson (@richardson_book)

ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥ is a destination spot! Like I said I’ve been blessed by the basketball Gods to have served at The University of ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥.

— Book Richardson (@richardson_book)

Incredible program awesome coaches. Best fans and basketball community in the nation. Coach Snowden got it going Coach Olsen made this an ELITE basketball DESTINATION AND Coach Miller has carried on the tradition! I’m blessed to have served here in ÃÛèÖÖ±²¥

— Book Richardson (@richardson_book)