{"id":226305,"date":"2026-01-08T00:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226305\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T00:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T00:33:07","slug":"crooks-named-to-wooden-award-midseason-watch-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/226305\/","title":{"rendered":"Crooks Named to Wooden Award Midseason Watch List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMES, Iowa\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Iowa State junior center <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclones.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/audi-crooks\/13831\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"13831\" target=\"_blank\">Audi Crooks<\/a> has been named to the 2025-26 John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Watch List, announced by the Los Angeles Athletic Club on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Crooks is now a two-time Wooden Award top 25 watch list member after making the cut a season ago. The Algona, Iowa native leads the country this season in scoring average (29.1 ppg), points (408) and field goals (169). She finished five straight games with 30-plus points while shooting at least 60 percent from the floor (Nov. 30-Dec. 31, 2025). Crooks has shot 71 percent (169-238) from the floor this season and 70 percent from the free throw line (70-100). In her last four games, she has finished with three points-rebounds double-doubles (vs. Iowa, at Houston, vs. Baylor).<\/p>\n<p>Crooks has broken two Iowa State records so far this season. She broke Tonya Burns&#8217; single-game scoring record against Valparaiso (Nov. 12) with 43 points on 18-of-23 shooting from the floor, matching her single-game made field goal record as well. Against Indiana (Nov. 30), Crooks bested both marks again, finishing with 47 points on 19-of-25 field goals. The 6-3 center is the only player in Division I women&#8217;s basketball to record multiple 40-point game this season and owns the highest single-game point total on the year.<\/p>\n<p>Crooks and the No. 11 Cyclones are back in action tonight, Wednesday, January 7 at Cincinnati. Tip-off in Fifth Third Arena is set for 5:30 p.m. CT on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMES, Iowa\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Iowa State junior center Audi Crooks has been named to the 2025-26 John R. Wooden Award Midseason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-226305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}