Jayne & Kayla named to midseason Wooden Award list

Jayne and Kayla have been named as two of the 21 top candidates for the Women's John R. Wooden Award. The midseason list is based on individual player performance and team records during the first half of the season. Read more...

This is the second straight year in which Jayne has been named to the Wooden Award's midseason list. Her achievements at midseason are:

• She makes 50.7% of her field goal attempts (#6 in the Pac-10 and #53 in the nation).
• She makes 9.4 rebounds per game (#4 in the Pac-10 and #45 in the nation).
• She has made 1074 rebounds in her career and needs just 70 more to break the Stanford record, which was set by Nicole Powell.
• Her assist to turnover ratio is 1.23 (#9 in the Pac-10 and #173 in the nation). She is the only center in the top 250.
• She blocks 1.86 shots per game (#1 in the Pac-10 and #55 in the nation) and now has 241 in her career.
• She has scored in double-digits in 13 of 14 games.
• She has had five double-doubles in 14 games.

This is the first time that Kayla has been named to the Wooden Award list. Her achievements at midseason are:

• She plays an average of 34.1 minutes per game (#3 in the Pac-10).
• She scores 17.6 points per game (#2 in the Pac-10 and #59 in the nation).
• She makes 47.6% of her field goal attempts (#12 in the Pac-10 and #93 in the nation).
• She makes 1.86 three-point field goals per game (#5 in the Pac-10) at a rate of 40% (#4 in the Pac-10).
• She makes 81.5% of her free throws (#8 in the Pac-10 and #94 in the nation).
• She makes 9.2 rebounds per game (#5 in the Pac-10 and #52 in the nation).
• She has scored in double-digits in 13 of 14 games.
• She has had four double-doubles in 14 games.

It seems odd that Nneka isn't on the list too. Jake Curtis suggests some reasons in this article.