{"id":293335,"date":"2025-11-18T20:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293335\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:31:10","slug":"wilson-named-to-wooden-award-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/293335\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Named To Wooden Award Watch List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL, N.C.\u2014University of North Carolina freshman forward <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/caleb-wilson\/27321\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"27321\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Wilson<\/a> is one of 50 players nationally included on the 2025-26 Wooden Award Preseason Watch List, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by a preseason poll of national college basketball experts, the list comprises 50 student-athletes who are frontrunners for some of the most prestigious honors in college basketball: the Wooden Award All-America team and the Wooden Award\u00a0Most Outstanding Player.<\/p>\n<p>The players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2026 John R. Wooden Award Men&#8217;s Player of the Year. Players not selected for the list remain eligible for inclusion on the Wooden Award\u00a0midseason, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson, who enters Tuesday night&#8217;s home game against Navy is shooting 66.7 percent from the floor while averaging 20.0 points and 9.5 rebounds through four games in 2025-26. He is a member of watch lists for the Karl Malone Power Forward Award, the Naismith Trophy and the Oscar Robertson (USBWA) Trophy and a second-team preseason All-Atlantic Coast Conference pick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAPEL HILL, N.C.\u2014University of North Carolina freshman forward Caleb Wilson is one of 50 players nationally included on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-293335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}