Kansas guard Frank Mason III (0) heads up to the bucket against Iowa State forward Jameel McKay (1) during the first half on Monday, Feb. 2, 2015 at Allen Fieldhouse.

The 2007-08 Kansas University basketball team that won the national title didn’t have a single player named first-team All-Big 12 by the Associated Press and a skunking could happen again this season.

Unless things change, it will be an injustice. Frank Mason deserves first-team honors. Numbers don’t capture value in basketball. He’s the best player on the best team in the conference and he makes teammates better.

The cause of the Kansas snubbing seven seasons ago was voters couldn’t decide which Jayhawk to put on the ballot, not that they couldn’t have voted for more than one.

Darrell Arthur, Mario Chalmers, Darnell Jackson and Brandon Rush all received first-team votes and all but two of the 19 voters put at least one KU player on the first team. Arthur, Chalmers and Rush all were voted to the second team.

In 2008, player of the year Michael Beasley of Kansas State and D.J. Augustin of Texas were unanimous first-team selections. Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin, Baylor’s Curtis Jerrells and Nebraska’s Aleks Maric rounded out the first team.

Kansas coach Bill Self was asked at his presser Thursday what players midway through the season are most deserving of All-Big 12 honors. He mentioned eight players, including two of his own, Mason and Perry Ellis. Running through the rosters in his head, Self also mentioned Phil Forte and Le’Bryan Nash of Oklahoma State, Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield, West Virginia’s Juwan Staten, Iowa State’s Georges Niang and Baylor’s Rico Gathers.

“And there’s more,” Self said. “There’s more. I didn’t mention everybody. I think to get it down to five you should probably wait to see how the season plays out.”

Hield leads the conference in scoring and has been the league’s best perimeter player so far, Gathers the leading rebounder and best post player, Mason the best point guard. That leaves three players for two spots: Niang, Nash and Forte. Three perimeter players and two posts works best, so Forte, the second-leading scorer in the conference, a .459 three-point shooter and scrappy defender, gets the nod. Niang, a better rebounder, passer and a .486 three-point shooter lands the fifth spot.

Nice lineup. Four three-point threats and Gathers, who is averaging 13.5 rebounds per game. Gathers is the sort of wide-body who can give Kansas trouble. He totaled nine points and 14 rebounds vs. the Jayhawks in Waco, where Kansas won by one point. He’ll be tough to contain Saturday.