William Winston Roper Trophy Finalists

There are five nominees for the William Winston Roper Trophy, awarded annually to a Princeton senior man of high scholastic rank and outstanding qualities of sportsmanship and general proficiency in athletics.

Tosan Evbuomwan led the Tigers to the Sweet Sixteen in 2023, becoming just the fourth No. 15 seed to do so. Named to the 2023 NCAA South Region All-Tournament Team, he was also named 2023 Ivy Madness Most Outstanding Player, 2022 Unanimous Ivy Player of the Year and MVP of the 2022 London Basketball Classic. Evbuomwan is a two-time First Team All-Ivy honoree, a two-time Ivy Madness All-Tournament Team honoree and a two-time NABC All-District honoree. In addition, he was named Academic All-Ivy and CSC Academic All-District in 2023.

Evbuomwan’s 161 assists from the 2022-23 season are tied for the program record, and his 142 assists from 2021-22 rank No. 3 all-time in school history. In only three seasons, he ranks No. 6 all-time in school history in assists with 323, and 34th in points with 1033. Evbuomwan is an economics major from Newcastle, England.

Breaking a 72-year drought, Patrick Glory won the 125-pound NCAA wrestling title in 2023, joining Bradley Glass of the Class of 1953, who won the unlimited weight in 1951, as the only individual NCAA wrestling champions in program history. The win came a year after Glory gave Princeton its first NCAA finalist in 20 years, and he is one of only two wrestlers in program history, along with John Orr from the Class of 1985, to have two top-two NCAA championship finishes.

Glory, an economics major from Randolph, N.J., was a Hodge Award finalist for the second time in 2023, three years after becoming the first Princetonian to be a finalist for college wrestling’s top award in the nearly three decades the honor has been given. Glory is one of two four-time All-Americans in program history, one of five three-time EIWA champions in program history, and the first Princeton wrestler to make the EIWA final in all four seasons.