Twenty players are on the Wooden Award's trimmed-down list of candidates for the top player in women's college basketball.

Nineteen are juniors or seniors.

The lone sophomore? It's Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu.

One year after the dynamic Ducks guard was honored as the country's top freshman, she's in the running for its best player, period.

Ionescu's 19.9 points and 7.7 assists per game lead the Pac-12 and she also ranks 13th in rebounding (7.1). The NCAA's all-time triple-double leader with nine, Ionescu is also shooting the second-highest three-point percentage in the conference (46.9) with the third-best assist-to-turnover ratio (2.5).



Per HerHoopStats, Ionescu has assisted on 38 percent of Oregon's baskets when she's on the floor, the 22nd-highest rate nationally.

The Wooden Award will be announced April 6.

Ionescu's Ducks fell three spots to ninth in the AP poll Monday following Sunday's home loss to Stanford. That loss, combined with UCLA's victory over USC on Monday, created a three-way tie for first in the Pac-12 standings between the Cardinal, Ducks and Bruins, who are each 10-2 in conference play.

The Ducks, who have already beaten UCLA once this season, will host the Bruins on Feb. 19. But first, UO will travel north for a road trip this weekend against Washington (7-16, 1-11) in an 8 p.m. Friday tipoff and Washington State (10-14, 3-9) at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Kristine Anigwe, California

Ariel Atkins, Texas

Kalani Brown, Baylor

Lexie Brown, Duke

Jordin Canada, UCLA

Napheesa Collier, Connecticut

Sophie Cunningham, Missouri

Asia Durr, Louisville

Katelynn Flaherty, Michigan

Megan Gustafson, Iowa

Sabrina Ionescu, Oregon

Teaira McCowan, Mississippi State

Kelsey Mitchell, Ohio State

Kia Nurse, Connecticut

Arike Ogunbowale, Notre Dame

Katie Lou Samuelson, Connecticut

Shakayla Thomas, Florida State

Victoria Vivians, Mississippi State

Gabby Williams, Connecticut

A'ja Wilson, South Carolina

-- Andrew Greif

agreif@oregonian.com