Bogut, Augustus win Woodens

Utah’s Andrew Bogut and LSU’s Seimone Augustus were runaway winners of the John R. Wooden awards, presented Saturday in Los Angeles to college basketball’s players of the year.

Bogut, a 7-foot sophomore center from Australia, became the first non-American to win the men’s award, collecting 4,314 points from a national panel of more than 1,000 voters of sports media members and college basketball experts. Duke’s J.J. Redick was second with 3,552 points.

Augustus, a 6-1 junior guard, received 422 points from a panel of more than 200 voters to win the women’s award. Monique Currie of Duke was second with 155 points.

“The John R. Wooden award is the most prestigious in basketball,” said Bogut, who has already decided to give up his final two years of college eligibility to enter the NBA draft, where he’s expected to be one of the top picks.

Now 94, Wooden didn’t attend the award ceremony, but was expected at a banquet later at night.

Fresno State turns to Cleveland

Steve Cleveland was hired to be Fresno State’s basketball coach, and the former Brigham Young coach pledged to restore integrity to a program rocked by years of scandals.

Cleveland, who went 138-108 in eight seasons at BYU, replaces Ray Lopes, who resigned March 17 after a school investigation determined he had broken an NCAA rule about telephone calls to recruits.

Jerry Tarkanian, Fresno State’s previous coach, spent several years dodging various scandals that undermined public confidence in the program.