College basketball’s most prestigious award will be handed out on Friday night, when the Los Angeles Athletic Club honors this season’s biggest stars for the final time.
2016 College Basketball Awards Show: Time, TV schedule, live stream for Wooden Award presentation
How to watch college basketball’s premier awards show.
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The Wooden Award is the centerpiece of ESPN’s College Basketball Awards, which bring together the sport’s best to wrap up the college hoops season. Michigan State’s Denzel Valentine, Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield and Kentucky’s Tyler Ulis among the nominees for the Wooden Award, annually given to college basketball’s most outstanding player.
The College Basketball Awards will also hand out hardware to the best player at each position group. The Bob Cousy Award will go to the nation’s top point guard, the Jerry West Award goes to the best shooting guard, the Julius Erving Award is handed to the country’s most top small forward, the Karl Malone Award goes to the top power forward and the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award goes to the nation’s best big man. You can see all the nominees here.
Breanna Stewart is the overwhelming favorite to win the women’s Wooden Award for the second straight year. Stewart just led UConn to its fourth straight national championship. If she wins, it will be the fifth time a Husky has won it in 13 years.
Voting took place in March, with fans and basketball media both weighing in. The men's ballot also includes North Carolina's Brice Johnson, Oakland's Kahlil Felder, Iowa State,'s Georges Niang, Virginia's Malcolm Brogdon and Indiana's Yogi Ferrell. The women's choices included three Huskies — Stewart, Moriah Jefferson and Morgan Tuck, plus duos from Maryland (Shatori Walker-Kimbrough and Brionna Jones) and South Carolina (Tiffany Mitchell and A'ja Wilson).
There’s some doubt about whether the Wooden Award can really go to the most outstanding player in the country if it excludes people based on a non-basketball factor, but those are the rules.
You can watch the ceremony on ESPN2. Here’s full information:
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Place: Los Angeles, Calif.
TV: ESPN2
Stream: WatchESPN
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