LOS ANGELES -- Villanova sophomore guard Jasmine Bascoe (Milton, Ontario) is one of 50 players named to the Women's Preseason Wooden Award Watch List.
 
After five games in 2025-26, Bascoe leads the Wildcats in scoring  with an 18.0 ppg., average and she is second in rebounding at 5.0 rebounds per contest. She is currently shooting .402 from the field (35-of-87) and .333 from three-point range (12-of-36).
 
During her Villanova career, Bascoe has scored double figures in 34 of 39 career games, including a career-high 30 points this year against Fairfield on Nov. 5.  As a freshman last year, Bascoe averaged 16.2 points per game and earned first team All-BIG EAST honors and BIG EAST All-Rookie team accolades.
 
Selected by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts, the list comprises 50 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.
 
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 Legends of Coaching recipient.

 
 
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