’22 winner Tshiebwe tops on guys’s Wooden list

Kentucky forward Oscar Tshiebwe will need to fend off serious competition to make history as a two-time guys’s college basketball Wood Award winner.Tshiebwe (16.8 PPG, 13.8 RPG, 1.3 BPG )anchors the John R. Wooden Award Provided by Wendy’s midseason top 25 list for 2022-23 that was released Wednesday. He could end up being the second two-time winner of the guys’s Wood Award, exactly 40 years after previous Virginia star Ralph Sampson won it in 1982 and 1983. However, Tshiebwe arguably is not the frontrunner for the award.

This edition of the males’s midseason list features Zach Edey(21.7 PPG, 13.4 RPG, 2.2 BPG), who has actually led

Purdue to the AP No. 1 ranking, Gonzaga’s Drew Timme (22.7 PPG, 8.3 RPG), who has actually put up the best numbers of his profession and Kansas star Jalen Wilson(20.6 PPG, 8.4 RPG ), who has actually placed the Jayhawks to chase after a front runner and possibly safeguard their nationwide title.A couple of mid-major stars made the list, consisting of Detroit Mercy’s Antoine Davis(3,103 career points, 7th all-time),

who is projected to end up the year ranked 2nd all-time in scoring in Department I history, and Jordan”Jelly”Walker(25.2 PPG ), the UAB star leading the nation in scoring.Houston star Marcus Sasser and other upperclassmen occupy the bulk of the slots on the midseason list. However four freshmen– Kansas’Gradey Cock, Duke’s Kyle Filipowski, Baylor’s Keyonte George and Alabama’s Brandon Miller– are on the list.Despite North Carolina’s struggles this season, two Tar Heels players, Armando Bacot and Caleb Love, made the list.Players who stopped working to make the midseason

list can still make a spot as a Wooden Award finalist. Throughout the 2012-13 season, previous Indiana star Victor Oladipo was not on the midseason list, however he finished second in the race to Michigan’s Trey Burke, the winner that year.The Wooden Award will be presented April 7, 2023. A complete look at the males’s Wooden Award midseason leading 25: Armando Bacot, North Carolina, 6-11, Sr., F/C Marcus Carr, Texas, 6-2, Sr., G Antoine Davis, Detroit Mercy, 6-1, Sr., G

Kendric Davis, Memphis, 6-0, Sr., G Gradey Dick, Kansas, 6-8, Fr., G

Hunter Dickinson, Michigan, 7-1

, Jr., C Zach Edey,

Purdue, 7-4, Jr., C Kyle Filipowski, Duke, 7-0, Fr., C

Adam Flagler, Baylor, 6-3, Sr., G

Keyonte George, Baylor, 6-4, Fr., G

Trayce Jackson-Davis, Indiana, 6-9, Sr., F Jaime

Jaquez Jr., UCLA, 6-7, Sr., G/F Caleb Love, North Carolina, 6-4, Jr., G Mike Miles Jr., TCU, 6-2, Jr., G

Brandon Miller, Alabama, 6-9, Fr.

, F Kris Murray, Iowa, 6-8, Jr., F Adama Sanogo, UConn

, 6-9, Jr., F

Marcus Sasser, Houston, 6-2, Sr., G Terquavion Smith,

NC State, 6-4, Soph., G

Drew Timme, Gonzaga, 6-10, Sr., F Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky, 6-9, Sr., F

Azuolas Tubelis, Arizona, 6-11, Jr., F

Jordan Walker, UAB, 5-11, Sr., G

Jalen Wilson, Kansas, 6-8, Jr., F

Isaiah Wong, Miami, 6-4, Jr., G