December 31, 2001

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR’S TO ALL

 

WOODEN AWARD COMMITTEE RELEASES MIDSEASON LIST OF THIRTY

The John R. Wooden Award committee announced their midseason list of 30 candidates for the 2001-2002 Wooden Award Player of the Year and All-American Team. Players who do not make this list are still eligible for consideration for the Wooden Award. Matt Bonner of Florida is the lone player on the midseason list who was not on the 50-man preseason list.

 

The ten player Wooden Award All-American Team will be announced on Tuesday, March 26, 2002. The Wooden Award winner will be selected on Sunday April 7, 2002 as the nation's "Most Outstanding Collegiate Basketball Player of the Year."

 

Here are the 30 players on the midseason list and their current statistics.

 

PLAYER

SCHOOL

PTS

REB

AST

Jason Gardner

Arizona

21.0

3.7

4.5

Troy Bell

Boston College

23.6

3.6

3.3

Caron Butler

Connecticut

18.0

7.3

2.6

Carlos Boozer

Duke

16.7

8.1

0.8

Mike Dunleavy

Duke

17.5

7.3

1.6

Jason Williams

Duke

22.5

3.7

4.3

Matt Bonner

Florida

15.9

6.6

1.7

Udonis Haslem

Florida

16.0

8.8

1.5

Melvin Ely

Fresno State

21.0

9.4

0.6

Dan Dickau

Gonzaga

17.9

3.1

4.3

Frank Williams

Illinois

19.2

4.5

4.0

Jared Jeffries

Indiana

16.1

7.3

1.5

Reggie Evans

Iowa

17.9

11.8

1.5

Luke Recker

Iowa

18.9

4.4

3.4

Nick Collison

Kansas

15.8

7.8

1.4

Drew Gooden

Kansas

19.6

11.8

1.5

Tayshaun Prince

Kentucky

18.3

7.3

1.7

Lonny Baxter

Maryland

14.3

8.9

0.8

Juan Dixon

Maryland

18.1

4.2

2.9

Kareem Rush

Missouri

18.9

5.4

1.9

Maurice Baker

Oklahoma State

18.5

7.5

4.1

Marvin O'Connor

St. Joseph's

19.8

4.3

2.8

Casey Jacobsen

Stanford

20.6

5.1

3.7

Preston Shumpert

Syracuse

22.4

5.7

2.2

Lynn Greer

Temple

23.5

3.6

4.4

Chris Owens

Texas

15.8

7.4

0.8

Jason Kapono

UCLA

19.9

5.8

2.7

Sam Clancy

USC

16.8

9.3

1.3

Roger Mason Jr.

Virginia

18.3

4.0

5.9

David West

Xavier

20.0

10.6

2.3

 

The following are the 21 players who made the preseason list, but were not midseason selections. Former Fresno State guard Tito Maddox was a preseason selection before he was dismissed from the team.

 

PLAYER

SCHOOL

Steve Logan

Cincinnati

Chris Duhon

Duke

Brett Nelson

Florida

Tito Maddox

Fresno State

Kevin Braswell

Georgetown

Mike Sweetney

Georgetown

Brian Cook

Illinois

Keith Bogans

Kentucky

Tamar Slay

Marshall

Kelly Wise

Memphis

Lavell Blanchard

Michigan  

Marcus Taylor

Michigan State

Justin Reed

Mississippi

Jason Capel

North Carolina

John Linehan

Providence

Jameer Nelson

St. Joseph's

David Bluthenthal

USC

Vincent Yarbrough

Tennessee

Chris Marcus

Western Kentucky

Dan Gadzuric

UCLA

Jerry Green

Cal-Irvine

 

COLLEGE BASKETBALL NEWS’ TOP 25

Wake Forest moved back into the top 25 with a win over Marquette and Connecticut dropped out of the College Basketball News’ Top 25 poll this week.