Kansas University men’s basketball senior Perry Ellis has been named to the John R. Wooden Award All-America Team for 2015-16.

Ellis was one of 10 payers named to the team, along with Grayson Allen of Duke, Malcolm Brogdon of Virginia, Kris Dunn of Providence, Yogi Ferrell of Indiana, Buddy Hield of Oklahoma, Brice Johnson of North Carolina, Georges Niang of Iowa State, Tyler Ulis of Kentucky and Denzel Valentine of Michigan State.

Ellis was also named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America Second Team on Monday.

Voted on by member coaches of the NABC, Ellis was among the 15 student-athletes named to the first, second and third NABC All-America teams.

He was joined on the second team by Dunn, Niang, Jakob Peoltl of Utah and Ulis.

The first team: Brogdon, Hield, Johnson, Ben Simmons of LSU and Valentine.

Named to the third team were Allen, Kay Felder of Oakland, Ferrell, Josh Hart of Villanova and Jarrod Uthoff of Iowa.

Ellis led KU in scoring at 16.9 ppg and was second in rebounding at 5.9 rpg. Ellis averaged 17.7 points and 5.8 rebounds during Big 12 play.

Ellis ended his career No. 8 on the Kansas career scoring list with 1,798 points and No. 12 on the KU career rebounding list at 834.

Ellis is only the fifth player in KU history to rank in the top 12 in both scoring and rebounding, joining Danny Manning, Nick Collison, Raef LaFrentz and Clyde Lovellette.