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Berry and Maye are among the top 25 players on the Wooden Watch list.
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Maye & Berry Named To Midseason Wooden List
January 11, 2018 | Men's Basketball
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Athletic Club has announced its John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 list, and Tar Heels Joel Berry II and Luke Maye made the cut. Berry was on the preseason watch list and advanced to the top 25, and Maye was a midseason addition after a strong first half to his season in 2017-18.
Chosen by a poll of national college basketball experts based on their performances during the first half of the 2017-18 season, the list comprises of 25 student-athletes who are front-runners for the sport's most prestigious honor.
On the 2018 Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 list, five players debut on the Wooden Watch after not being named on the Preseason Top 50: Maye, Mikal Bridges of Villanova, Tra Holder of Arizona State, Brandon McCoy of UNLV and Jordan Murphy of Minnesota.
Carolina is one of four schools have two players that were chosen: Arizona (Deandre Ayton and Allonzo Trier), Duke (Grayson Allen and Marvin Bagley III), North Carolina (Berry and Maye), and Villanova (Bridges and Jalen Brunson).
The Atlantic Coast Conference and Big East lead all conferences with five selections each, followed by the Big 12 and Pac-12 with four apiece; the Big Ten and SEC with two apiece: and the American, Mountain West and WCC with one selection each.
The players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2018 John R. Wooden Award presented by Wendy's. The leading candidates will be further pared to 20 top players in early February. Fifteen top players who have proven to their universities that they are also making progress toward graduation and maintaining at least a cumulative 2.0 GPA will be submitted to voters on the Final Ballot prior to the NCAA Tournament.
Every year, players have made the Final Ballot that were not on the preseason or midseason lists. Voters are permitted to take into consideration the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament when casting the ballot. The ten-man Wooden Award All American Team will be announced the week of the "Elite Eight" round of the NCAA Tournament. The winner of the 2018 John R. Wooden Award will be presented during the ESPN College Basketball Awards presented by Wendy's on Friday, April 6, 2018.
Chosen by a poll of national college basketball experts based on their performances during the first half of the 2017-18 season, the list comprises of 25 student-athletes who are front-runners for the sport's most prestigious honor.
On the 2018 Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 list, five players debut on the Wooden Watch after not being named on the Preseason Top 50: Maye, Mikal Bridges of Villanova, Tra Holder of Arizona State, Brandon McCoy of UNLV and Jordan Murphy of Minnesota.
Carolina is one of four schools have two players that were chosen: Arizona (Deandre Ayton and Allonzo Trier), Duke (Grayson Allen and Marvin Bagley III), North Carolina (Berry and Maye), and Villanova (Bridges and Jalen Brunson).
The Atlantic Coast Conference and Big East lead all conferences with five selections each, followed by the Big 12 and Pac-12 with four apiece; the Big Ten and SEC with two apiece: and the American, Mountain West and WCC with one selection each.
The players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2018 John R. Wooden Award presented by Wendy's. The leading candidates will be further pared to 20 top players in early February. Fifteen top players who have proven to their universities that they are also making progress toward graduation and maintaining at least a cumulative 2.0 GPA will be submitted to voters on the Final Ballot prior to the NCAA Tournament.
Every year, players have made the Final Ballot that were not on the preseason or midseason lists. Voters are permitted to take into consideration the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament when casting the ballot. The ten-man Wooden Award All American Team will be announced the week of the "Elite Eight" round of the NCAA Tournament. The winner of the 2018 John R. Wooden Award will be presented during the ESPN College Basketball Awards presented by Wendy's on Friday, April 6, 2018.
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