High Noon Highlights (7/18): Chuba Hubbard on Doak Walker award candidate list

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Chuba Hubbard named to Doak Walker Award watch list:

It’s #watchlistszn and Chuba Hubbard has added another watch list. After being named to the Maxwell Award watch list on Tuesday, it was announced on Wednesday that he had been named to the Doak Walker Award watch list.

This comes a year after former Oklahoma State running back Justice Hill was named to the watch list. Other Big 12 players that made the list include TCU’s Darius Anderson andTexas’ Keaontay Ingram.

Likekele talks his experience with team USA this summer:

Issac Likekele had a fantastic opportunity to this summer to play with the USA U19 basketball team in the World Cup. He plans to use that experience to sharpen his skills this upcoming season with Oklahoma State writes the Oklahoman’s Hallie Hart.

“I went over there on USA, and I’m the older guy on the team,” Likekele said. “And they’re looking to me like, ‘What are we supposed to do next?’ especially whenever it got close in the championship game.”

Likekele didn’t mind coming off the bench for Team USA, though he started every game as a Cowboy freshman. With their attention fixed on securing the trophy, he and his USA teammates didn’t worry about who played the most minutes or made the biggest difference. They quickly forged close friendships despite spending less than a month together.” {The Oklahoman}

Matthew Wolff gets shout out at Media Days:

The Focus in AT&T stadium might have been football, but that didn’t stop commissioner Bob Bowlsby congratulating Matthew Wolff on his success on the PGA tour.

Around the Big 12:

Oklahoma’s addition of Jalen Hurts

Reggie Walker puts Big 12 on notice

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