STANFORD, Calif. – Stanford senior Cameron Brink and graduate student Hannah Jump are on the John R. Wooden Award Women’s Preseason Top 50 Watch List, which was announced today on the 11 a.m. PT SpotsCenter on ESPN.
The list is comprised of 50 players who are the early front-runners for the John R. Wooden Award All American Team™ and Most Outstanding Player Award. It is chosen by a preseason poll of national women’s college basketball media members. The Wooden Award All American Team™ will be announced the week of the Elite Eight. The winner of the 2024 John R. Wooden Award will be presented in Los Angeles in April.
As a junior last season, Brink became the seventh player in Stanford history to be named a Wooden Award All American and first since Chiney Ogwumike in 2014. Already a two-time WBCA All-American, Brink is off to a superb start in her senior campaign. In Stanford’s 96-64 rout of then-No. 9 Indiana on Sunday, she had 20 points, 17 rebounds and four blocks to lead the Cardinal to its first 30-point win over a top-10 team since beating then-No. 4 Xavier by 37 (89-52) on Dec. 28, 2010.
Brink collected her 300th career block in the win and is the nation’s leading active shot blocker with 303. The reigning WBCA Defensive Player of the Year is looking to become the 17th Division I player with 400 career rejections.
Brink was one of just two players to average at least 15.0 points, 9.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game last season and recorded the program’s first triple-double with blocks when she had 16 points, 11 rebounds and 10 rejections in a win over Oregon on Jan. 29.
Jump is averaging 10.5 points through the season’s first two games and has hit three of her six attempts from beyond the arc. She was an All-Pac-12 pick a season ago, one in which she broke Stanford’s single-season record for 3-point makes (100), ranked ninth nationally in 3-point field goals and eighth in 3-point percentage (44.1). Back for her fifth season on The Farm, the graduate student was one of only two players in 2022-23 to average better than 44.0 percent from deep while making at least 100 3-pointers and just the ninth major conference player to do that since 1999-2000. Jump is fifth among active players in career 3-point percentage (.422).
No. 6 Stanford continues its season-opening homestand on Thursday night when it hosts Cal Poly at 7 p.m.
The list is comprised of 50 players who are the early front-runners for the John R. Wooden Award All American Team™ and Most Outstanding Player Award. It is chosen by a preseason poll of national women’s college basketball media members. The Wooden Award All American Team™ will be announced the week of the Elite Eight. The winner of the 2024 John R. Wooden Award will be presented in Los Angeles in April.
As a junior last season, Brink became the seventh player in Stanford history to be named a Wooden Award All American and first since Chiney Ogwumike in 2014. Already a two-time WBCA All-American, Brink is off to a superb start in her senior campaign. In Stanford’s 96-64 rout of then-No. 9 Indiana on Sunday, she had 20 points, 17 rebounds and four blocks to lead the Cardinal to its first 30-point win over a top-10 team since beating then-No. 4 Xavier by 37 (89-52) on Dec. 28, 2010.
Brink collected her 300th career block in the win and is the nation’s leading active shot blocker with 303. The reigning WBCA Defensive Player of the Year is looking to become the 17th Division I player with 400 career rejections.
Brink was one of just two players to average at least 15.0 points, 9.0 rebounds and 3.0 blocks per game last season and recorded the program’s first triple-double with blocks when she had 16 points, 11 rebounds and 10 rejections in a win over Oregon on Jan. 29.
Jump is averaging 10.5 points through the season’s first two games and has hit three of her six attempts from beyond the arc. She was an All-Pac-12 pick a season ago, one in which she broke Stanford’s single-season record for 3-point makes (100), ranked ninth nationally in 3-point field goals and eighth in 3-point percentage (44.1). Back for her fifth season on The Farm, the graduate student was one of only two players in 2022-23 to average better than 44.0 percent from deep while making at least 100 3-pointers and just the ninth major conference player to do that since 1999-2000. Jump is fifth among active players in career 3-point percentage (.422).
No. 6 Stanford continues its season-opening homestand on Thursday night when it hosts Cal Poly at 7 p.m.
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