University of North Carolina Athletics
Gray Named To Wooden Award Midseason List
January 21, 2015 | Women's Basketball
Gray is averaging 16.6 points and 7.7 rebounds for the 12th-ranked Tar Heels, who enter Thursday's game at NC State with a 16-3 record, 3-2 in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Pac-12 led all conferences with five selections, followed by the ACC and SEC with four each, the Big 12 with three. The American Athletic Conference has had two selections, and the Big Ten and MAC had one apiece.
Players not chosen to the preseason list are eligible for the National Ballot. The National Ballot consists of 15-20 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. The Wooden Award All American Team, consisting of the nation's top five players, will be announced the week of the Final Four.
The 39th annual Wooden Award ceremony will honor the Men's and Women's Wooden Award winners, and will include the presentation of the Wooden Award All American Teams and the Legends of Coaching Award, which in 2015 will go to San Diego State Head Men's Basketball Coach Steve Fisher. The event will take place the weekend of April 10-12, 2015.
Created in 1976, the John R. Wooden Award is the most prestigious individual honor in college basketball. It is bestowed upon the nation's best player at an institution of higher education who has proven to his or her university that he or she is making progress toward graduation and maintaining a minimum cumulative 2.0 GPA. Previous winners include such notables as Larry Bird ('79), Michael Jordan ('84), Tim Duncan ('97), Candace Parker ('07 and '08), Kevin Durant ('09) and Maya Moore of Connecticut ('09 and '11). Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike won the 2014 Wooden Award.
John R. Wooden Award Women's Midseason Top 20.
