The Los Angeles Athletic Club announced the 2015 National Ballot for the John R. Wooden Award presented by Wendy’s on ESPN College GameDay today. Selected by the Wooden Award National Advisory Board, the list is comprised of 15 student-athletes who are the frontrunners for college basketball’s most prestigious honor. All balloted players have proven to their universities that they are making progress toward graduation and are maintaining at least a cumulative 2.0 GPA.
Voting begins March 16, and voters, consisting of nearly 1,000 members of the national college basketball media, may take into consideration the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament. Voting ends March 23. Fans may vote through the fan voting site sponsored by Wendy’s, woodenawardvote.com. The Wooden Award All American Team, consisting of the nation’s top 10 players, will be announced the week of the “Elite Eight” round of the NCAA Tournament and will be the focus of a 30-minute show on ESPNU on Monday, March 30th (8pm EDT) that will announce the Wooden All-American team and the five finalists for the Wooden Award.
Here are the finalists:
Ron Baker, junior, Wichita State
Malcolm Brogdon, junior, Virginia
Willie Cauley-Stein, junior, Kentucky
Rakeem Christmas, senior, Syracuse
Jerian Grant, senior, Notre Dame
Tyler Haws, senior, BYU
Buddy Hield, junior, Oklahoma
Frank Kaminsky, senior, Wisconsin
Georges Niang, junior, Iowa State
Jahlil Okafor, freshman, Duke
Bobby Portis, sophomore, Arkansas
D’Angelo Russell, freshman, Ohio State
Seth Tuttle, senior, Northern Iowa
Kyle Wiltjer, junior, Gonzaga
Delon Wright, senior, Utah
