Larry Drew II has had a huge impact on UCLA this season, which has gone largely unnoticed due to the presence of talented freshmen like Shabazz Muhammad.

“If they win the conference,” Arizona head coach Sean Miller said, “my vote for the conference player of the year is for Larry Drew, and I don’t really think it’s close. The impact that he has on the game to make his teammates better, the fact that he shoots 50 percent from three. I know this — in the two games we played UCLA, he was the difference.”