Get ready to hear this news a lot: John Wall is your National Player of the Year.Yahoo! Sports unveiled its 2010 college basketball awards Monday, naming UK freshman guard John Wall its Player of the Year. Wall and freshman teammate DeMarcus Cousins were named to Yahoo’s All-America first team. Wall and Cousins join Villanova’s Scottie Reynolds, Ohio State’s Evan Turner and Oklahoma State’s James Anderson on the first team. Junior forward Patrick Patterson was named honorable mention. Head coach John Calipari did not get Coach of the Year, which was awarded to Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim.

In addition to Yahoo’s awards, Wall was named the Sporting News Freshman of the Year. Cousins joined Wall on the Sporting News All-Freshman Team.

Expect a bunch of postseason awards as the week carries on.Here is what Yahoo had to say about Wall and Cousins: G John Wall, Kentucky, freshman – Wall was at his best during crunch time. In the last two minutes of games this season (plus two five-minutes overtime periods), Wall scored 66 points in 70 minutes with only six turnovers. He shot 62 percent from the field during those stretches. If Wall weren’t surrounded by future lottery picks his scoring stats would be even higher.C DeMarcus Cousins, Kentucky, freshman – The 6-foot-11, 270-pound Cousins was so hard to stop that teams had to resort to intentionally fouling him to keep him from scoring. Still, the country’s best big man managed to average 15.6 points and 10.1 rebounds. Cousins almost had as many offensive boards (135) as he did on the defensive end (177). The most impressive thing about Cousins’ gaudy statistics is that he amassed them despite playing just 22.9 minutes per game.