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Three Ducks on Wooden Award Watch List
11/05/19 | Women's Basketball
EUGENE, Ore. – Sabrina Ionescu, last year's winner of the John R. Wooden Award, is joined on the preseason top 30 watch list for college basketball's most prestigious honor by teammates Ruthy Hebard and Satou Sabally.
No. 1 ranked Oregon is one of only two schools to have three players on the preseason watch list, along with No. 2 Baylor. No. 5 UConn, No. 7 Oregon State and No. 3 Stanford each have two players on the list.
A midseason watch list and a late season watch list will be announced before a national ballot of 15 players is revealed. The Wooden All-Americans will be announced during the Elite Eight before the winner of the Wooden Award is named during the ESPN College Basketball Awards show on April 10, 2020. Players not on the preseason watch list are still eligible for the midseason list, late season list and the national ballot.
The NCAA all-time leader in triple-doubles (18), Ionescu averaged 19.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 8.2 assists during her historic junior season in 2018-19 en route to becoming the first Duck ever to win the Wooden Award. Ionescu enters her senior season with 1,984 career points, 792 assists and 756 rebounds, giving her the chance to become the first player in NCAA history to surpass 2,000 career points, 1,000 assists and 1,000 rebounds.
Hebard is on the preseason Wooden Award watch list for the second straight year and is coming off a great junior season in which she averaged 16.1 points and 9.1 rebounds while earning all-Pac-12 honors for the third straight season.
Sabally joins Ionescu and Hebard on the preseason watch list for the first time after averaging 16.6 points per game on 50.5 percent shooting to with 6.2 rebounds per game. The junior was the third most efficient scorer in the nation last season with 1.09 points per possession, according to Synergy Sports.
John R. Wooden Award – 2019-20 Preseason Top 30
# indicates player selected as the 2019 Wooden Award Player of the Year
No. 1 ranked Oregon is one of only two schools to have three players on the preseason watch list, along with No. 2 Baylor. No. 5 UConn, No. 7 Oregon State and No. 3 Stanford each have two players on the list.
A midseason watch list and a late season watch list will be announced before a national ballot of 15 players is revealed. The Wooden All-Americans will be announced during the Elite Eight before the winner of the Wooden Award is named during the ESPN College Basketball Awards show on April 10, 2020. Players not on the preseason watch list are still eligible for the midseason list, late season list and the national ballot.
The NCAA all-time leader in triple-doubles (18), Ionescu averaged 19.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 8.2 assists during her historic junior season in 2018-19 en route to becoming the first Duck ever to win the Wooden Award. Ionescu enters her senior season with 1,984 career points, 792 assists and 756 rebounds, giving her the chance to become the first player in NCAA history to surpass 2,000 career points, 1,000 assists and 1,000 rebounds.
Hebard is on the preseason Wooden Award watch list for the second straight year and is coming off a great junior season in which she averaged 16.1 points and 9.1 rebounds while earning all-Pac-12 honors for the third straight season.
Sabally joins Ionescu and Hebard on the preseason watch list for the first time after averaging 16.6 points per game on 50.5 percent shooting to with 6.2 rebounds per game. The junior was the third most efficient scorer in the nation last season with 1.09 points per possession, according to Synergy Sports.
John R. Wooden Award – 2019-20 Preseason Top 30
| Name | School | Conference | Height | Class | Position |
| Bella Alarie | Princeton | Ivy League | 6-4 | Sr. | G/F |
| DiJonai Carrington | Stanford | Pac-12 | 5-11 | Sr. | G |
| Chennedy Carter | Texas A&M | SEC | 5-7 | Jr. | G |
| Kaila Charles | Maryland | Big Ten | 6-1 | Sr. | G |
| Lauren Cox | Baylor | Big 12 | 6-4 | Sr. | F |
| Crystal Dangerfield | Connecticut | American | 5-5 | Sr. | G |
| Rennia Davis | Tennessee | SEC | 6-2 | Jr. | G/F |
| Chelsea Dungee | Arkansas | SEC | 5-11 | Jr. | G |
| Dana Evans | Louisville | ACC | 5-6 | Jr. | G |
| Kiah Gillespie | Florida State | ACC | 6-2 | Jr. | F |
| Haley Gorecki | Duke | ACC | 6-0 | Sr. | G |
| Tyasha Harris | South Carolina | SEC | 5-10 | Sr. | G |
| Ruthy Hebard | Oregon | Pac-12 | 6-4 | Sr. | F |
| Becca Hittner | Drake | Missouri Valley | 6-0 | Sr. | G |
| Rhyne Howard | Kentucky | SEC | 6-2 | So. | G |
| Sabrina Ionescu# | Oregon | Pac-12 | 5-11 | Sr. | G |
| Juicy Landrum | Baylor | Big 12 | 5-8 | Sr. | G |
| Aari McDonald | Arizona | Pac-12 | 5-6 | Jr. | G |
| Ayana Mitchell | LSU | SEC | 6-0 | Sr. | F |
| Beatrice Mompremier | Miami | ACC | 6-4 | Sr. | F |
| Erica Ogwumike | Rice | Conference USA | 5-9 | Sr. | G |
| Michaela Onyenwere | UCLA | Pac-12 | 6-0 | Jr. | F |
| Ali Patberg | Indiana | Big Ten | 5-11 | Jr. | G |
| Mikayla Pivec | Oregon State | Pac-12 | 5-10 | Sr. | G |
| DiDi Richards | Baylor | Big 12 | 6-1 | Jr. | G |
| Satou Sabally | Oregon | Pac-12 | 6-4 | Jr. | F |
| Destiny Slocum | Oregon State | Pac-12 | 5-7 | Jr. | G |
| Christyn Williams | Connecticut | American | 5-11 | So. | G |
| Kiana Williams | Stanford | Pac-12 | 5-8 | Jr. | G |
| Peyton Williams | Kansas State | Big 12 | 6-4 | Sr. | F |
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