Alabama star forward Brandon Miller was named Tuesday as the 2022-23 winner of the United States Basketball Writers Association national freshman of the year award.

He is the first Alabama player to win the honor, which was first voted upon in 1989. Miller will formally receive the award at the USBWA awards banquet in St. Louis on April 12, hosted by the Missouri Athletic Club.

The award is named after Wayman Tisdale, the former Oklahoma star in the early 1980s who died of cancer in 2009. Tisdale was the first freshman to receive first-team All-America honors from the USBWA as a freshman.

Miller was named a second-team All-American by the USBWA last week.

ALABAMA BASKETBALL POSTSEASON AWARDS

Brandon Miller: USBWA Wayman Tisdale national freshman of the year; Associated Press first-team All-America; Sporting News first-team All-America; USBWA second-team All-America; NABC second-team All-America; Naismith Award semifinalist; Wooden Award final 15; USBWA Oscar Robertson Trophy late-season watch list; Julius Erving Award final five; SEC player of the year (coaches vote); SEC player of the year (Associated Press vote); SEC freshman of the year (coaches vote); SEC newcomer of the year (Associated Press vote); All-SEC first team (coaches vote); All-SEC first team (Associated Press vote); SEC all-freshman team (coaches vote); All-SEC tournament team; SEC tournament MVP; NABC District 20 first team; USBWA all-District IV team; USBWA District IV player of the year

Jahvon Quinerly: SEC co-sixth man of the year (coaches vote); All-SEC tournament team

Charles Bediako: SEC all-defensive team (coaches vote); All-SEC tournament team

Mark Sears: All-SEC second team (coaches vote); NABC District 20 second team

Noah Clowney: SEC all-freshman team (coaches vote)

Jaden Bradley: SEC all-freshman team (coaches vote)

Mike Rodak is an Alabama beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @mikerodak.