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Ionescu Wins Wooden Award
04/12/19 | Women's Basketball
LOS ANGELES - Oregon women's basketball guard Sabrina Ionescu has been named the Wooden Award winner, for the most outstanding player in women's college basketball.
Ionescu was presented with the honor at ESPN's College Basketball Awards Show on Friday night. The men's winner was Duke's Zion Williamson.
This is the second national player of the year honor Ionescu has won this year. She claimed the Wade Trophy, presented by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, at an awards presentation at the Final Four. Ionescu is also a unanimous first team All-American and has been named the Lieberman Award winner (NCAA's top point guard) and Pac-12 player of the year for a second straight season.
Ionescu is the first player from Oregon to win the Wooden Award and the third from the Pac-12, joining Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike and Washington's Kelsey Plum. She is just the fifth junior to ever win the award and could join women's basketball icons Brenna Stewart, Brittney Griner, Maya Moore, Candace Parker and Seimone Augustus as a repeat winner. Ionescu was a finalist for the Wooden Award a season ago, but the winner was South Carolina's A'ja Wilson.
Ionescu averaged 19.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 8.2 assists per game this season while shooting 44.3 percent from the floor, 42.9 percent from three and 88.3 percent at the line. She was the only player in the country to average 15+ points, 7+ rebounds and 7+ assists per game.
The Walnut Creek, Calif., native set an NCAA single-season record with eight triple-doubles this year, adding to her NCAA career record, for both men or women, of 18. She matched her season-high with 31 points in the Ducks' thrilling Elite Eight win over No. 1 seed Mississippi State as the Ducks advanced to the Final Four for the first time in program history. Ionescu has amassed 1,984 points, 756 rebounds and 792 assists thus far in her collegiate career. She has a chance to become the first player in NCAA women's basketball history to reach 2,000+ points, 1,000+ rebounds and 1,000+ assists.
Ionescu was presented with the honor at ESPN's College Basketball Awards Show on Friday night. The men's winner was Duke's Zion Williamson.
This is the second national player of the year honor Ionescu has won this year. She claimed the Wade Trophy, presented by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association, at an awards presentation at the Final Four. Ionescu is also a unanimous first team All-American and has been named the Lieberman Award winner (NCAA's top point guard) and Pac-12 player of the year for a second straight season.
Ionescu is the first player from Oregon to win the Wooden Award and the third from the Pac-12, joining Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike and Washington's Kelsey Plum. She is just the fifth junior to ever win the award and could join women's basketball icons Brenna Stewart, Brittney Griner, Maya Moore, Candace Parker and Seimone Augustus as a repeat winner. Ionescu was a finalist for the Wooden Award a season ago, but the winner was South Carolina's A'ja Wilson.
Ionescu averaged 19.9 points, 7.4 rebounds and 8.2 assists per game this season while shooting 44.3 percent from the floor, 42.9 percent from three and 88.3 percent at the line. She was the only player in the country to average 15+ points, 7+ rebounds and 7+ assists per game.
The Walnut Creek, Calif., native set an NCAA single-season record with eight triple-doubles this year, adding to her NCAA career record, for both men or women, of 18. She matched her season-high with 31 points in the Ducks' thrilling Elite Eight win over No. 1 seed Mississippi State as the Ducks advanced to the Final Four for the first time in program history. Ionescu has amassed 1,984 points, 756 rebounds and 792 assists thus far in her collegiate career. She has a chance to become the first player in NCAA women's basketball history to reach 2,000+ points, 1,000+ rebounds and 1,000+ assists.
Women's Winners
| Year | Player | School |
| 2019 | Sabrina Ionescu | University of Oregon |
| 2018 | A'ja Wilson | University of South Carolina |
| 2017 | Kelsey Plum | University of Washington |
| 2016 | Breanna Stewart | University of Connecticut |
| 2015 | Breanna Stewart | University of Connecticut |
| 2014 | Chiney Ogwumike | Stanford University |
| 2013 | Brittney Griner | Baylor University |
| 2012 | Brittney Griner | Baylor University |
| 2011 | Maya Moore | University of Connecticut |
| 2010 | Tina Charles | University of Connecticut |
| 2009 | Maya Moore | University of Connecticut |
| 2008 | Candace Parker | University of Tennessee |
| 2007 | Candace Parker | University of Tennessee |
| 2006 | Seimone Augustus | Louisiana State University |
| 2005 | Seimone Augustus | Louisiana State University |
| 2004 | Alana Beard | Duke University |
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