Scheierman Named to Wooden Award Late Season Top 20 Watch List
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Los Angeles Athletic Club announced the John R. Wooden Award® presented by Principal® Late Season Top 20 Watch List today on ESPN2, and that list includes Creighton guard Baylor Scheierman. Chosen by a poll of national college basketball experts based on their performances during the 2023-24 season thus far, the list comprises of 20 student-athletes who are front-runners for the sport's most prestigious honor.
Scheierman leads No. 13 Creighton (16-5, 7-3 BIG EAST) in scoring (17.8 ppg.) and rebounding (8.1 rpg.), ranking in third in the BIG EAST in both categories. He also leads the conference in three-pointers per game (3.1) and defensive rebounds per game (7.3) while ranking second with 35.7 minutes per game. An Aurora, Neb,. native, Scheierman is 40 points away from becoming the first men's player in Division I history to record 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 500 assists and 300 three-pointers in a career.
Scheierman is Creighton's second honoree named to the Late Season Top 20 Watch List by the Wooden Award, joining Marcus Foster in 2017-18. That list began in 2014-15, one year after Doug McDermott became Creighton's first recipient of the John R. Wooden Award®.
On the 2024 Wooden Award™ Late Season Top 20, two players made their return on the Wooden Watch™: Johni Broome (Auburn) and DaRon Holmes II (Dayton). Two schools have multiple players on the list: Kansas (Hunter Dickinson & Kevin McCullar Jr.) and North Carolina (Armando Bacot & RJ Davis).
The ACC leads all conferences with four selections on the Wooden Award Late Season Top 20, followed by the Big East, Big 12 and SEC with three selections each, the American and Pac-12 with two selections each and the Atlantic 10, Big Ten and Mountain West with one selection apiece.
The players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2024 John R. Wooden Award Men's Player of the Year presented by Principal. Players not chosen to the late season list are still eligible for the Wooden Award™ National Ballot. The National Ballot consists of 15 top players who have proven to their universities that they meet or exceed the qualifications of the Wooden Award. Nearly 1,000 voters will rank in order 10 of those 15 players when voting opens prior to the NCAA Tournament and will allow voters to take into consideration performance during early round games. The Wooden Award All American Team™ will be announced the week of the "Elite Eight" round of the NCAA Tournament. The winner of the 2024 John R. Wooden Award will be presented by Principal following the NCAA Tournament in April.
About the John R. Wooden Award
Created in 1976, the John R. Wooden Award Program hosts the most prestigious honors in college basketball recognizing The Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player for men and women, The Wooden Award All America Teams for men and women and the annual selection of the Wooden Award Legend of Coaching recipient. Honorees have proven to their university that they meet or exceed the qualifications of the John R. Wooden Award as set forth by Coach Wooden and the Wooden Award Steering Committee, including making progress towards graduation and maintaining at least a 2.0 cumulative GPA. Previous winners include Larry Bird ('79), Ralph Sampson ('82, '83), Michael Jordan ('84), Tim Duncan ('97), Kevin Durant ('07), Candace Parker ('07; '08), Maya Moore ('09; '11), Breanna Stewart ('15; '16), and last year's recipients, Caitlin Clark of Iowa and Zach Edey of Purdue.
Since its inception, the John R. Wooden Award has contributed nearly one million dollars to the universities' general scholarship fund in the names of the Wooden Award All American recipients and has sent more than 1,000 underprivileged children to week-long college basketball camps. Additionally, the John R. Wooden Award partners with the Special Olympics Southern California (SOSC) each year to host the Wooden Award Special Olympics Southern California Basketball Tournament. The day-long tournament brings together Special Olympics athletes and Wooden Award All Americans and coaches in attendance. It is hosted at the Los Angeles Athletic Club during the John R. Wooden Award Weekend.
The Legends of Coaching Award presented by Principal will be presented to University of Kentucky coach John Calipari, along with the Wooden Award Men's and Women's Players of the Year on April 12, 2024. For up-to-date information on the Wooden Award, please go to www.woodenaward.com and follow the Wooden Award on Facebook at www.facebook.com/woodenaward and @WoodenAward on Twitter and Instagram.
Wooden Award Presented by Principal 2023-24 Late Season Top 20
Caleb Love Arizona
Johni Broome Auburn
PJ Hall Clemson
KJ Simpson Colorado
Tristen Newton Connecticut
Baylor Scheierman Creighton
DaRon Holmes II Dayton
Kyle Filipowski Duke
Johnell Davis Florida Atlantic
L.J. Cryer Houston
Hunter Dickinson# Kansas
Kevin McCullar Jr. Kansas
Antonio Reeves Kentucky
Tyler Kolek Marquette
David Jones Memphis
Armando Bacot North Carolina
RJ Davis North Carolina
Zach Edey* Purdue
Jaedon LeDee San Diego State
Dalton Knecht Tennessee
# indicates player selected as 2020-21 Wooden Award All American
* indicates player selected as 2022-23 Wooden Award Winner
