The inaugural winner of the Karl Malone Award played college basketball at what university?
University of Louisville
Title: 1992–93 Utah Jazz season
Passage: The 1992–93 NBA season was the Jazz's 19th season in the National Basketball Association, and 14th season in Salt Lake City, Utah.  During the offseason, the Jazz acquired Jay Humphries from the Milwaukee Bucks.  Utah hosted the 1993 NBA All-Star Game, and their star players Karl Malone and John Stockton were named co-MVPs.  Malone and Stockton continued to be among the best players in the NBA, as the Jazz won six of their first eight games on their way to a 24–10 start.  However, they struggled down the stretch with a 6–8 record in February, including a five-game losing streak.  Late in the season, the team signed free agent James Donaldson, who played in the final six games of the regular season.  The Jazz went on to finish third in the Midwest Division with a 47–35 record.  However, in the first round of the playoffs, they lost to the Seattle SuperSonics in five games after taking a 2–1 series lead.  Following the season, Mark Eaton announced his retirement.
Title: Magnus Mainland
Passage: Magnus Mainland (1878 – September 4, 1959) was a college football lineman and college basketball player and founding coach for The University of Texas at Austin.  Mainland was a native of Scotland.  Mainland was a nationally known basketball player as an undergraduate student at Wheaton College (Illinois).  His Wheaton team was able to compete in the college basketball competition in the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, the first Olympic Games featuring the young sport (although only as a demonstration sport).  Wheaton placed second out of the three competing college basketball teams.  Following his graduation from Wheaton, Mainland enrolled in engineering courses at The University of Texas.  While a student there, he was able to convince University officials to permit him to organize, coach, and play on the University's first varsity basketball team.  The Longhorns took the court for the first time on March 10, 1906, defeating the Baylor Bears 27–17 at outdoor Clark Field.  Texas won seven of the eight games scheduled in its inaugural season.  Mainland's second and final season as head coach resulted in a 4–4 overall record.  Due to inadequate funding, the University Athletics Council canceled the basketball program after two seasons, leaving Texas without a basketball team for 1908.  The program was reinstated in 1909 under the direction of UT German studies faculty member and previous Longhorn football head coach (1907–08) W. E. Metzenthin, who had supported students in their efforts to have the program revived.
Title: Julius Erving Award
Passage: The Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate small forward.  Following the success of the Bob Cousy Award which had been awarded since 2004, the award was one of four new awards (along with the Jerry West Award, Karl Malone Award and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award) created as part of the inaugural College Basketball Awards show in 2015.  It is named after NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time Team player Julius Erving.  The inaugural winner was Stanley Johnson.
Title: Karl Malone Award
Passage: The Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate power forward.  Following the success of the Bob Cousy Award which had been awarded since 2004, the award was one of four new awards (along with the Jerry West Award, Julius Erving Award and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award) created as part of the inaugural College Basketball Awards show in 2015.  It is named after 14-time NBA All-Star, 11-time All-NBA First Team player Karl Malone.  The inaugural winner was Montrezl Harrell.
Title: Tyler Cain
Passage: Tyler Cain (born June 30, 1988) is an American basketball player for Pallacanestro Varese in the Italian LBA.  He played college basketball for the University of South Dakota (USD).  He is best known for being the inaugural winner of the Great West Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year award in 2009–10, the conference's first as a Division I basketball league.  As a senior that season, Cain became the second player in USD history to record 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds.  He is also USD's all-time leading shot blocker after compiling 361 during his career.
Title: Montrezl Harrell
Passage: Montrezl Dashay Harrell (born January 26, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).  He played college basketball for the University of Louisville and was a key player on the Cardinals' 2013 NCAA Tournament championship team, and played a key role during the 2014 NCAA Tournament.  Harrell was selected with the 32nd overall pick by Houston Rockets in the 2015 NBA draft.
Title: 2001–02 Utah Jazz season
Passage: The 2001–02 NBA season was the Jazz's 28th season in the National Basketball Association, and 23rd season in Salt Lake City, Utah.  During the offseason, the Jazz signed free agent John Amaechi.  John Stockton continued to set new standards with 15,000 career assists and 3,000 career steals, as Karl Malone scored his 34,000th career point.  However, the Jazz began to show their age as they played mediocre basketball all season finishing fourth in the Midwest Division with a 44–38 record.  The Jazz also beat the Los Angeles Lakers' record of sixteen consecutive winning seasons, set between 1976–77 and 1991–92.  Malone was selected for the 2002 NBA All-Star Game, but did not play due to an injury.  Rookie Andre Kirilenko was selected to the All-Rookie First Team.  In the first round of the playoffs, they lost in four games to the Sacramento Kings.
Title: Jerry West Award
Passage: The Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate shooting guard.  Following the success of the Bob Cousy Award which had been awarded since 2004, the award was one of four new awards (along with the Julius Erving Award, Karl Malone Award and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award) created as part of the inaugural College Basketball Awards show in 2015.  It is named after NBA Finals Champion and NBA Finals MVP player Jerry West.  The inaugural winner was D'Angelo Russell.
Title: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award
Passage: The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate center.  Following the success of the Bob Cousy Award which had been awarded since 2004, the award was one of four new awards (along with the Jerry West Award, Julius Erving Award and Karl Malone Award) created as part of the inaugural College Basketball Awards show in 2015.  It is named after three-time NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Champion, three-time NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player, and three-time National Player of the Year Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.  The inaugural winner was Frank Kaminsky.
Title: Jazz–Rockets rivalry
Passage: The Jazz–Rockets rivalry is a National Basketball Association (NBA) rivalry between the Utah Jazz and the Houston Rockets.  The rivalry began in the 1990s when the Rockets, led by dominant center Hakeem Olajuwon, and the Jazz, led by the pick-and-roll duo of Karl Malone and John Stockton, were playoff powers in the Midwest Division.  The teams faced each other four times in the NBA playoffs during the decade.  In all four instances, the winner was the eventual Western Conference champion and played in the NBA Finals.  In 2007, the rivalry was restored as the two teams met again in the playoffs and a showdown of two of the best 1–2 combos of Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming of the Rockets and Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer of the Jazz.
Karl Malone Award Montrezl Harrell