LOS ANGELES, Calif. (January 7, 2025) – The Los Angeles Athletic Club's John R. Wooden
Award®, presented by Principal, announced its 2024-25 Men's Midseason Top 25 Watch List today
on www.WoodenAward.com.

Selected by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts, the list comprises 25
student-athletes who are frontrunners for the most prestigious honors in college basketball: the
Wooden Award All-American Team™ and the Wooden Award® Most Outstanding Player.

Villanova's Eric Dixon (Willow Grove, Pa./Abington High School) is among those selected.

Previous Wooden Award® All Americans Hunter Dickinson (Kansas 2024 & Michigan 2021), and RJ
Davis (North Carolina in 2024) are on  the list. Rutgers and Tennessee both have two
players represented on the Wooden Award® Midseason List.

The players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2025 John R. Wooden Award®
Men's Player of the Year. Players not selected for the midseason list remain eligible for inclusion on
the Wooden Award® late-season list, and the National Ballot. The National Ballot will feature 15 top
players who have demonstrated to their universities that they meet or exceed the Wooden Award®
qualifications.

Nearly 1,000 voters will be invited to rank 10 of the 15 players on the ballot in order of preference
when voting opens during the NCAA Tournament. Voters will also consider performances in the
tournament's early rounds, players' contributions to their teams and their character. The Wooden
Award All-American Team™ will be announced during the week of the NCAA Tournament's "Elite
Eight."

The winners and the All Americans of the 2025 John R. Wooden Award®, presented by Principal,
will be honored at the Los Angeles Athletic Club on Friday, April 11, 2025.
About the John R. Wooden Award®

Created in 1976, the Los Angeles Athletic Club John R. Wooden Award Program™ represents the
pinnacle of honors in college basketball. It recognizes the Wooden Award® Most Outstanding Player
for both men and women, the Wooden Award All-America™ Teams for both men and women, and
annually selects the Wooden Award® Legend of Coaching recipient.

Wooden Award® All-Americans have proven to their universities that they meet or exceed the
standards of the John R. Wooden Award®, as set forth by Coach Wooden and the Wooden Award®
Steering Committee. These qualifications include progress toward graduation and maintaining at
least a 2.0 cumulative GPA.

Previous recipients include legends such as Larry Bird ('79), Michael Jordan ('84), Tim Duncan ('97),
Kevin Durant ('07), Candace Parker ('07, '08), Maya Moore ('09, '11), Breanna Stewart ('15, '16),
and the most recent winners, Caitlin Clark of Iowa ('23, '24) and Zach Edey of Purdue ('23, '24).
Since its inception, the John R. Wooden Award® has contributed nearly one million dollars in
charitable gifts in the names of its All-American recipients and has sent more than 1,000
underprivileged children to week-long college basketball camps. Wooden Award All-Americans are
invited to celebrate their personal charitable efforts, for which the John R. Wooden Award

Foundation will make charitable gifts in support of the character of the student. Additionally, the John
R. Wooden Award® partners annually with Special Olympics Southern California (SOSC) to host the
Wooden Award® Special Olympics Basketball Day. This event unites Special Olympics athletes with
Wooden Award® All-Americans and coaches during Wooden Award® Weekend at the Los Angeles
Athletic Club.

The 2025 Wooden Award® Legends of Coaching honoree is Mark Few of Gonzaga, who will receive
his award alongside the 2025 Wooden Award® Men's and Women's Players of the Year on April 11,
2025.

For the latest updates, visit www.WoodenAward.com and follow the Wooden Award® on Facebook
at www.facebook.com/woodenaward, and on Twitter and Instagram at @WoodenAward.
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The Midseason 25:

Airious "Ace" Bailey | Rutgers

Johni Broome | Auburn

Walter Clayton Jr. | Florida

RJ Davis | North Carolina

Hunter Dickinson | Kansas

Eric Dixon | Villanova

Jeremiah Fears | Oklahoma

Cooper Flagg | Duke

Keshon Gilbert | Iowa St

PJ Haggerty | Memphis

Dylan Harper | Rutgers

Josh Hubbard | Mississippi State

Kasparas Jakučionis | Illinois

Tre Johnson | Texas

Kam Jones | Marquette

Ryan Kalkbrenner | Creighton

Alex Karaban | UConn

Chaz Lanier | Tennessee

Ryan Nembhard | Gonzaga

Derik Queen | Maryland

Maxime Raynaud | Stanford

Mark Sears | Alabama

Braden Smith | Purdue

Wade Taylor IV | Texas A & M

Zakai Zeigler | Tennessee