LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Athletic Club announced the 2024 John R. Wooden Award All-American Team today and Arizona guard Caleb Love was among the ten honorees.
Love was previously named a Second Team All-American by the NABC and USBWA and was a third team pick by The Sporting News and the Associated Press. He is the third Wildcat in as many years – joining Bennedict Mathurin (2022) and Azuolas Tubelis (2023) – to receive All-American honors under head coach Tommy Lloyd. He also joined Mathurin in being named Pac-12 Player of the Year as he helped guide the Wildcats to the 2024 Pac-12 regular season championship.
It was a spectacular season for Love in his first year at Arizona, averaging a career-high 18.0 points and 4.8 rebounds while shooting 41.3% from the floor, also the best of his career. He connected on 92 3-point field goals to become the sixth player in Arizona history to make 90 or more in a season. In addition to a 1.6 assist-to-turnover ratio, he also shot over 50% from inside the arc for the first time in his college career.
Love also recorded the first two double-doubles of his career and scored a career-high 36 points at Oregon, which also set a new scoring record for Matthew Knight Arena. All totaled, he scored 20 or more points 14 times during the 2023-24 season. In Pac-12 play, his 20.0 points per game ranked second among all league players, and he made 2.95 3-pointers per game to lead the conference.
Voting took place from March 18-25, 2024. As insisted upon by Coach Wooden at the Award’s creation 47 years ago, all players were certified by their universities as meeting or exceeding the criteria of the John R. Wooden Award.
2023-24 Wooden Award All America Team
RJ Davis, North Carolina*
Hunter Dickinson, Kansas
Zach Edey, Purdue*
Kyle Filipowski, Duke
Dalton Knecht, Tennessee*
Tyler Kolek, Marquette
Jaedon LeDee, San Diego State
Caleb Love, Arizona
Tristen Newton, Connecticut*
Jamal Shead, Houston*
*denotes player is one of five finalists for the Wooden Award
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