Purdue star Zach Edey, the reigning Wood Award winner main the No. 1-ranked Boilermakers, topped the award’s Midseason Prime 25 listing introduced Wednesday.
Edey, a 7-foot-4 heart, is seeking to develop into solely the second two-time winner in Wood Award historical past. He received it final season after averaging 22.3 factors and 12.9 rebounds and is the clear favourite to go back-to-back this season.
The Canadian is averaging 22.3 factors and 10.6 rebounds, capturing 63.4% from the sector and blocking 2.3 pictures per recreation. He is tallied 9 double-doubles and scored 35 factors on two separate events.
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The final participant to win the Wood Award in consecutive seasons was Virginia’s Ralph Sampson, who took house each the 1982 and 1983 awards.
Edey’s prime competitors for the award is prone to come from blueblood applications. Kansas teammates Kevin McCullar Jr. and Hunter Dickinson are each having fun with productive seasons, with McCullar (20.1 PPG, 6.8 RPG, 4.5 APG) within the midst of a breakout marketing campaign and Dickinson (19.4 PPG, 12.4 RPG) averaging career-highs in each scoring and rebounding.
Duke ahead Kyle Filipowski is averaging 17.4 factors and eight.6 rebounds and completed with 26 factors and 10 rebounds in Tuesday’s win over Pittsburgh. In the meantime, arguably the perfect guard thus far this season has been North Carolina’s RJ Davis, scoring 20.6 factors per recreation.
There are solely two freshmen on the midseason listing, Kentucky’s Reed Sheppard and Baylor’s Ja’Kobe Walter. Sheppard is averaging 11.9 factors, 4.4 rebounds, 4.1 assists and a pair of.5 steals, whereas Walter is placing up 15.3 factors and 4.2 rebounds and simply scored 16 factors in Tuesday’s win over No. 18 BYU.
North Carolina (Davis and Armando Bacot), Kansas (McCullar and Dickinson) and Kentucky (Sheppard and Antonio Reeves) prepared the ground with two gamers apiece on the listing.
The whole Wood Award Midseason Prime 25:
Max Abmas, Texas
Armando Bacot, North Carolina
L.J. Cryer, Houston
Johnell Davis, Florida Atlantic
RJ Davis, North Carolina
Hunter Dickinson, Kansas
Zach Edey, Purdue
Kyle Filipowski, Duke
PJ Corridor, Clemson
David Jones, Memphis
Dalton Knecht, Tennessee
Tyler Kolek, Marquette
Jaedon LeDee, San Diego State
Caleb Love, Arizona
Kevin McCullar Jr., Kansas
Tristen Newton, UConn
Antonio Reeves, Kentucky
Baylor Scheierman, Creighton
Mark Sears, Alabama
Reed Sheppard, Kentucky
KJ Simpson, Colorado
Isaiah Stevens, Colorado State
Wade Taylor IV, Texas A&M
Tyson Walker, Michigan State
Ja’Kobe Walter, Baylor