Candice is Wade Trophy National Player of the Year!!!!

The Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced today that Stanford University’s senior Candice Wiggins has been named The State Farm Wade Trophy Player of the Year.

She was also named as a member of the State Farm Coaches’ All-America Team, and Jayne received honorable mention.

Here is more information about these events:

• The WBCA announcement of the Wade Trophy winner.
  
  
• The WBCA announcement of the All-America team.
  
  
• ESPN's report of the awards.
  
  
• USA Today's report, which includes a description of Candice's reaction and many congratulatory quotes.
  
  
• UConn Huskies' report, which naturally focuses on Renee Montgomery and Maya Moore being named to the All-American team and Geno Auriemma being named the national coach of the year. But it also includes a wonderful picture of Candice's reaction to the Wade Trophy announcement and many Stanford quotes at the end (from Tara, Candice, Jayne, Ros and JJ).
  
  
• Palo Alto Online's report, which naturally focuses on Candice and her many accomplishments.
  
  
• The AP report, which explains why and how Tara especially enjoyed the announcement
  
  

And some other news from Tampa:

• Graham Hays (ESPN) has written a story with a new twist: East meets West when UConn, Stanford clash
  
  
• There was a Final Four salute dinner and a cruise of Tampa Bay yesterday for the Final Four participants. Here is a slide show from Stanford Photo.
  
  
• The Associated Press took many photos of today's practice sessions. Start here and click prev for eight Stanford photos