University of Louisville women’s basketball’s Asia Durr was named to the John R. Wooden Award® Midseason Top 25, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced on Wednesday.
Chosen by a poll of national college basketball experts, the list is comprised of 25 student-athletes who are front-runners for the sport’s most prestigious honor, based on their performances during the first half of the 2016-17 season.
The ACC leads all conferences with six selections, followed by the Pac-12 with five, the Big Ten and SEC with four each, The American with three, the Big 12 with two, and the BIG EAST with one selection.
A sophomore, Durr is averaging a team-best 17.3 points on 41.2 percent shooting to go with 2.4 rebounds and 1.1 steals. She has logged 20-point performances six times this season, including a career-best 36 against Syracuse in late December that tied for ninth-most points in a game in school history. Nationally, she ranks fourth in 3-pointers made (60), eighth in 3-pointers per game (3.33), and 35th in total field goals (109).
The Douglasville, Ga., native, Durr was named to the all-ACC’s and Blue Ribbon Panel’s preseason teams. Last season, she was voted to all-ACC’s and Blue Ribbon Panel’s freshman teams. She also was selected to the all-ACC Tournament Team.
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. Voters are permitted to take into consideration the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament when casting the ballot.
The 10-member Wooden Award All-American Team will be announced the week Elite Eight during the NCAA Tournament.
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2016-17 John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25
Name School Conference
Lindsay Allen Notre Dame ACC
Kristine Anigwe California Pac-12
Jordin Canada UCLA Pac-12
Alaina Coates South Carolina SEC
Nia Coffey Northwestern Big Ten
Napheesa Collier Connecticut The American
Nina Davis Baylor Big 12
Asia Durr Louisville ACC
Makayla Epps Kentucky SEC
Rebecca Greenwell Duke ACC
Jessica January DePaul Big East
Alexis Jones Baylor Big 12
Brionna Jones Maryland Big Ten
Erica McCall Stanford Pac-12
Kelsey Mitchell Ohio State Big Ten
Kia Nurse Connecticut The American
Alexis Peterson Syracuse ACC
Kelsey Plum Washington Pac-12
Leticia Romero Florida State ACC
Katie Lou Samuelson Connecticut The American
Brianna Turner Notre Dame ACC
Victoria Vivians Mississippi State SEC
Shatori Walker-Kimbrough Maryland Big Ten
Sydney Wiese Oregon State Pac-12
A’ja Wilson South Carolina SEC
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