Reigning winner Oscar Tshiebwe was amongst the players selected to the guys’s Wooden Award Late Season Leading 20 list revealed Monday evening.The award is offered
annually to the very best college basketball player in the country.Tshiebwe, a 6-foot-9 Kentucky forward, ran away with the Wood Award on the males’s side last season, becoming the very first Kentucky player to win the award considering that Anthony Davis in 2012. He entered this season as the preferred to win it once again, and while Kentucky has been irregular for much of the season, Tshiebwe is still averaging 16.6 points and leads the country in rebounding (13.7 RPG). The heavy favorite entering February is viewed to be Purdue’s Zach Edey, the dominant 7-foot-4 center for the country’s top-ranked group. Edey is 10th in the nation in scoring (21.4 PPG )and 3rd in rebounding(13.0 RPG), while likewise blocking 2.3 shots per game and shooting better than 61%from the field. He’s coming off arguably his most impressive efficiency of the season, completing with 38 points and 13 rebounds in Sunday’s win over Michigan State.John R. Wooden Award Late Season Leading 20 Call School Height Class Position Armando Bacot North Carolina 6-11 Sr. F/C Antoine Davis
Detroit Grace 6-1 Sr. G Kendric Davis Memphis 6-0 Sr. G Zach
| Edey |
Purdue |
7-4 Jr. |
C Kyle |
Filipowski Duke 7-0 Fr.C Trayce Jackson-Davis Indiana 6-9 Sr. F Jaime Jaquez Jr.UCLA 6-7 Sr. G/F Keyontae Johnson Kansas State 6-6 Sr.
| F Mike Miles Jr.TCU 6-2
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| Jr. G Brandon Miller Alabama 6-9 Fr.F Kris Murray Iowa 6-8 Jr. |
F Markquis Nowell Kansas State 5-8 Sr. G Jalen Pickett Penn State 6-4 Sr. G Marcus Sasser Houston 6-2 |
Sr. G Terquavion Smith N.C. 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 |
Jalen Wilson
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| Kansas 6-8 Jr. F Isaiah |
Wong Miami(FL |
)6-4 Jr. G |
4 players, including Tshiebwe and Edey, were also on last |
season’s late season leading |
20 list. Indiana’s Trayce Jackson-Davis and Gonzaga’s Drew Timme joined Tshiebwe |
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Edey on both lists, and both
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| are among the leading |
prospects behind Edey.Jackson-Davis is balancing |
27.3 points,
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| 13.8 rebounds, 4.3 helps and 4.0 blocks |
in his previous 4 games for a resurgent Hoosiers |
team, while |
Timme is posting career highs across the board(21.4 PPG,
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| 7.5 RPG, 3.4 APG)regardless of Gonzaga not being |
in its usual position near the |
| top of the rankings.Editor’s Picks |
In addition to Jackson-Davis |
and Timme, Edey’s |
stiffest competitors for the award will likely come |
from Kansas forward Jalen Wilson. Wilson, a 6-foot-8 forward, is among the greatest breakout |
stars in the country this season |
, balancing 21.4 points |
and 8.6 rebounds, stepping up |
for |
the Jayhawks
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| following the |
departures of Ochai Agbaji |
and |
Christian Braun. |
Wilson has played |
his finest basketball of the |
season in |
recent |
weeks, installing 28.3 points and 7.3 rebounds over his previous 4 games– consisting of a 38-point performance at Kansas State in mid-January. Among the other significant names is Detroit Mercy guard Antoine Davis, the nation’s leading scorer. He set the Department I career record for 3-pointers made previously this month, while likewise relocating to No. 2 on the all-time scoring list.The men’s Wooden Award has been offered every year since 1977, beginning with UCLA star Marques Johnson.The ladies’s Wood Award started in 2004 with Duke’s Alana Beard the very first recipient. South Carolina forward Aliyah Boston won the award last season and headlined its late season leading 20 list likewise revealed Monday night.
