Georgia Amoore Chosen to the John R. Wooden Award Late Midseason Top 20 Watch List
LOS ANGELES – Georgia Amoore, University of Kentucky women’s basketball point guard, has been chosen to the John R. Wooden Award Late Midseason Top 20 Watch List, it was announced by the Los Angeles Club on Tuesday.
Selected by a panel of national college basketball experts, the list comprises 20 student-athletes who are frontrunners for the prestigious honor in college basketball: the Wooden Award® All-American Team and the Wooden Award® Most Outstanding Player.
This season, Amoore is averaging 19.2 points per game and 7.4 assists per game through 22 contests. Even better, in Southeastern Conference action she is putting up 22.2 points per game and 7.6 assists per game through 10 contests.
Her 7.4 assists per game are second in the nation, but first in the SEC, while she has led the nation for much of the season. If the season ended today, her 7.4 assists per game would break the long-standing school record for assists per game. Moreover, with her 162 total assists on the season, she just moved into the program’s single-season top 10 list.
In 16-of-22 games this season, she has dished out at least seven assists.
Amoore also has scored in double digits in all but one game this season. Moreover, she has produced at least 20 points in 11 games this season. She is recently coming off a career-high and school-record-tying 43 points at No. 13/12 Oklahoma on Feb. 2. Her 43 points came from 15-of-22 from the field, including 7-of-12 from long range, while adding 6-of-8 at the line.
The graduate guard became just the fifth player in Division I this season to score as many as 43 points, and just the second in the SEC.
In that game, she added eight assists, becoming the lone player in program history – and the lone player in the league since at least 2002-03 – to drop 43 points and deliver eight assists in a single game.
Furthermore, Amoore has had three games this season with at least seven three-point field goals. She is the lone player in program history to record three games with at least seven 3-pointers in a single season (Belmont, Mississippi State, at Oklahoma).
Overall in 2024-25, the Wildcat has recorded 14 games with at least 15 points and five assists.
Wooden Award® voters will be invited to rank 10 of the 15 players on the ballot in order of preference when voting opens during the NCAA Tournament. Voters will also consider performances in the tournament’s early rounds, players’ contributions to their teams, and their character. The Wooden Award All-American Team will be announced during the week of the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight. The winners and the All Americans of the 2025 John R. Wooden Award®, presented by Principal, will be honored at the Los Angeles Athletic Club on Friday, April 11, 2025.
Amoore has received a lot of recognition recently. A full list of the awards / honors she has received this season is as follows:
2024-25 John R. Wooden Award Top 20 Late Midseason Watch List
2x Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Week (Jan. 7 2025; Feb. 3, 2025)
2x SEC Player of the Week (Jan. 7 2025; Feb. 3, 2025)
Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Player of the Week (Feb. 3, 2025)
2024-25 Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Top 10 Finalist
2024-25 Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Midseason Watch List
2024-25 Women’s College All-Star Game Watch List
2024-25 John R. Wooden Award Midseason Top 25 Watch List (Jan. 7, 2025)
2024-25 Wade Trophy Watch List (Nov. 12, 2024)
2024-24 John R. Wooden Award Top 50 Watch List (Nov. 7, 2024)
2024-25 Jersey Mike’s Naismith Trophy Women’s College Player of the Year Watch List (Oct. 28, 2024)
2024-25 Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Watch List (Oct. 28, 2024)
2024-25 All-SEC Preseason First Team (media)
2024-25 All-SEC Preseason First Team (coaches)
2024-24 AP Preseason All-America Receiving Votes (seventh player overall in vote rankings)
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