BATON ROUGE – Over the course of 24 hours, LSU women's basketball player Ayana Mitchell started her senior season with a victory, scored her 1,000th career point and was named to the watch lists of two of the most prestigious awards in collegiate basketball – the John R. Wooden Award® presented by Wendy's® and the Citizen Naismith Trophy.
The Wooden Award list is comprised of 30 student-athletes considered to be the early front-runners for the 2020 honor. The list was compiled by a preseason poll of national women's college basketball media.
The Naismith Trophy, administrated by the Atlanta Tipoff Club, lists 50 players in contention for the 2020 Women's Player of the Year honor.