Bueckers, Watkins, Hidalgo among 15 on women’s Wooden ballot

Uconn‘s Paige Bokerzand USC‘s Jojo Watkins and Notradam‘s Hana Hidalgo The top of the top of the 15 best women’s players in the John R Prize. Wooden, which was announced on ESPN on Sunday.
Bueckers starts in a season in which Big East Player of the Year won for the third time. The Huskies team led to a record of an uncomfortable conference, while an average reached 18.6 points and 5.0 passes in 29.4 minutes for each game. It is heading to the conference starring, on average, the shooting of 50-40-90. Bokerz won the wooden prize in 2021, becoming the first student to receive.
Watckens won the Big Ten Player of the Year-the first player in Trojan to receive such honor since 1988, when Cherie Nelson was a PAC-10 player in the year-while he also got the All-Big Ten First team unanimously and the defensive team. Behind 24.7 points for each game, USC won the title of a regular season for the first time since 1994 and plays in the final of the Big Ten Championship on Sunday against Ucla.
Once the first place award for the Player of the Year award, the Hidalgo play decreased recently, and the Irish lost to before Blue demons In the ACC semi -finals. However, Hidalgo set a strong enough campaign to win the ACC title for the year and a defensive player for this year, making it the third player in the conference history to demand two prizes in the same season. The average Hidalgo is 24.2 points, 5.2 rebounds, 3.7 passes and 3.6 theft, and the other leads the administrative and fourth coordination committee in the country.
Two other players join the polls who won the awards of their conference player: Texas‘ Madison Booker (Second) and Tcu‘s Healy van Laith (Big 12).
Uconn’s Waller Sarah It is the only novice ranked 15th.