The top 50 early season candidates for the John R. Wooden Award were revealed on Tuesday, with the Kentucky Wildcats leading the field with four nominated players.
Top 50 early candidates for John R. Wooden Award revealed
The Kentucky Wildcats have four players on the list.
Mark Zerof-USA TODAY Sports
A panel of national college basketball experts compiles the list and all the players on the are considered strong candidates to make the midseason list and official ballot. The midseason list reduces the field to twenty players and the award is given out during the week of the Elite Eight.
The Wildcats lead the field with the most nominations, with Willie Cauley-Stein, Andrew Harrison, Julius Randle and James Young all make the list.
The Big 10 has the most considered players from a conference with ten, and the ACC has eight players on the list. The top five schools in the AP’s preseason poll, Kentucky, Michigan State, Louisville, Duke and Kansas, all have least three players on the list.
Here are the fifty players considered.
Jordan Adams (UCLA)
Kyle Anderson (UCLA)
Keith Appling (Michigan State)
Isaiah Austin (Baylor)
Jahii Carson (Arizona State)
Willie Cauley-Stein (Kentucky)
Semaj Christon (Xavier)
Aaron Craft (Ohio State)
Sam Dekker (Wisconsin)
Spencer Dinwiddie (Colorado)
Cleanthony Early (Wichita State)
Joel Embiid (Kansas)
C.J. Fair (Syracuse)
Aaron Gordon (Arizona)
Jerian Grant (Notre Dame)
Montrezl Harrell (Louisville)
Gary Harris (Michigan State)
Joe Harris (Virginia)
Andrew Harrison (Kentucky)
Tyler Haws (BYU)
Andre Hollins (Minnesota)
Rodney Hood (Duke)
Joe Jackson (Memphis)
Cory Jefferson (Baylor)
Sean Kilpatrick (Cincinnati)
Alex Kirk (New Mexico)
James Michael McAdoo (North Carolina)
Doug McDermott (Creighton)
Mitch McGary (Michigan)
Jordan McRae (Tennessee)
Shabazz Napier (Connecticut)
Kevin Pangos (Gonzaga)
Jabari Parker (Duke)
Adreian Payne (Michigan State)
Elfrid Payton (Lafayette)
Dwight Powell (Stanford)
Julius Randle (Kentucky)
Juvonte Reddic (VCU)
Glenn Robinson III (Michigan)
LaQuinton Ross (Ohio State)
Wayne Selden Jr. (Kansas)
Marcus Smart (Oklahoma State)
Russ Smith (Louisville)
Jarnell Stokes (Tennessee)
Rasheed Sulaimon (Duke)
Noah Vonleh (Indiana)
Dez Wells (Maryland)
Andrew Wiggins (Kansas)
Kendall Williams (New Mexico)
James Young (Kentucky)
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