Saint Louis’ Terrence Hargrove Jr. was named a recipient of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association 2023 Perry Wallace Most Courageous Award. He will share the honor with Utah State’s Connor Odom.
Hargrove and Odom will represent all of their peers across college basketball who have struggled with their mental health. They will be honored in April by the USBWA at the Final Four in Houston.
Hargrove went public on Twitter and in an article by Stu Durando of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (click here to read) about overcoming stress and depression. Hargrove hoped telling his story would lead others to seek help.
The USBWA chose Hargrove and Odom not only to honor their courage in coming forward to discuss their mental health and helping remove any stigma still associated with that, but to acknowledge the many issues college basketball players – and athletes in all sports – have faced before, during and after the pandemic.
The USBWA has presented a Most Courageous Award since the 1977-78 season. Last season, the men’s Most Courageous Award was named in honor of Perry Wallace, the SEC’s first Black athlete to play a full four-year career in any sport.
