Jon Wilner

Jon Wilner has been covering college sports for decades and is an AP top-25 football and basketball voter as well as a Heisman Trophy voter. He was named Beat Writer of the Year in 2013 by the Football Writers Association of America for his coverage of the Pac-12, won first place for feature writing in 2016 in the Associated Press Sports Editors writing contest and is a five-time APSE honoree.

NBA draft winners and losers: The Big 12 cleans up, Michigan and Arizona thrive, Gonzaga’s shutout and low flow from the SEC

The Big 12 owned the 2026 NBA draft like few conferences in recent years. It produced the top two picks (BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and Kansas’ Darryn Peterson), nine first-round selections…