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John R. Wooden Award Announces 2019-20 Preseason Top 30 Watch List
POSTED: November 5, 2019 -- 1:29 p.m. CT
The John R. Wooden Award® announced the Women’s Preseason Top 30 Watch List on ESPNW. The list is comprised of 30 student-athletes who are the early front-runners for college basketball's most prestigious honor. The list is chosen by a preseason poll of national women's college basketball media members.
Several universities boast multiple players on the list: Baylor (Lauren Cox, Juicy Landrum, and DiDi Richards) and Oregon (Ruthy Hebard, Sabrina Ionescu, and Satou Sabally) lead all schools with three selections, while Connecticut (Crystal Dangerfield and Christyn Williams), Oregon State (Mikayla Pivec and Destiny Slocum), and Stanford (DiJonai Carrington and Kiana Williams) each have two players on the list.
The preseason list represents nine conferences: the Pac-12 leads all conferences with nine selections, followed by the SEC with six, the ACC and Big 12 with four apiece, the American and Big Ten with two each, and Conference USA, Ivy League, and Missouri Valley with one selection apiece.
The players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2020 John R. Wooden Award Women’s Player of the Year. Players not chosen to the preseason list are still eligible for the Wooden Award™ midseason list, late season list, and the National Ballot. The National Ballot consists of 15 top players who have proven to their universities that they meet or exceed the qualifications of the Wooden Award. Nearly 1,000 voters will rank in order 10 of those 15 players when voting opens prior to the NCAA Tournament and will allow voters to take into consideration performance during early round games. The Wooden Award All American Team™ will be announced the week of the “Elite Eight” round of the NCAA Tournament. The winner of the 2020 John R. Wooden Award will be presented during the ESPN College Basketball Awards on Friday, April 10, 2020.
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John R. Wooden Award Announces 2019-20 Preseason Top 30 Watch List
Name |
School |
Conference |
Height |
Class |
Position |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bella Alarie | Princeton | Ivy League | 6'4" | Sr | G/F | |
| DiJonai Carrington | Stanford | Pac-12 | 5'11" | Sr | G | |
| Chennedy Carter | Texas A&M | SEC | 5'7" | Jr | G | |
| Kaila Charles | Maryland | Big Ten | 6'1" | Sr | G | |
| Lauren Cox | Baylor | Big 12 | 6'4" | Sr | F | |
| Crystal Dangerfield | UConn | The American | 5'5" | Sr | G | |
| Rennia Davis | Tennessee | SEC | 6'2" | Jr | G/F | |
| Chelsea Dungee | Arkansas | SEC | 5'11" | Jr | G | |
| Dana Evans | Louisville | ACC | 5'6" | Jr | G | |
| Kiah Gillespie | Florida State | ACC | 6'2" | Jr | F | |
| Haley Gorecki | Duke | ACC | 6'0" | Sr | G | |
| Tyasha Harris | South Carolina | SEC | 5'10" | Sr | G | |
| Ruthy Hebard | Oregon | Pac-12 | 6'4" | Sr | F/C | |
| Becca Hitner | Drake | Missouri Valley | 6'0" | Sr | G | |
| Rhyne Howard | Kentucky | SEC | 6'2" | Soph | G/F | |
| Sabrina Ionescu# | Oregon | Pac-12 | 5'11" | Sr | G | |
| Juicy Landrum | Baylor | Big 12 | 5'8" | Sr | G | |
| Aari McDonald | Arizona | Pac-12 | 5'6" | Jr | G | |
| Ayana Mitchell | LSU | SEC | 6'0" | Sr | F | |
| Beatrice Mompremier | Miami | ACC | 6'4" | Sr | F/C | |
| Erica Ogwumike | Rice | Conference USA | 5'9" | Sr | G | |
| Michaela Onyenwere | UCLA | Pac-12 | 6'0" | Jr | F | |
| Ali Patberg | Indiana | Big Ten | 5'11" | Jr | G | |
| Mikayla Pivec | Oregon State | Pac-12 | 5'10" | Sr | G | |
| DiDi Richards | Baylor | Big 12 | 6'1" | Jr | G/F | |
| Satou Sabally | Oregon | Pac-12 | 6'4" | Jr | F | |
| Destiny Slocum | Oregon State | Pac-12 | 5'7" | Jr | G | |
| Christyn Williams | UConn | The American | 5'11" | Soph | G/F | |
| Kiana Williams | Stanford | Pac-12 | 5'8" | Jr | G | |
| Peyton Williams | K-State | Big 12 | 6'4" | Sr | F/C |
# - indicates player selected as the 2019 Wooden Award Player of the Year
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