Kentucky Sports Radio
[Moderated by Matt Jones]
[Moderated by Matt Jones]
The list for the midseason 30 candidates for the John R. Wooden Award was released this week and the pride of Orestes and Margaret was among those still being considered to be named the nation’s best basketball player. Meeks was one of nine players to be named to the midseason thirty who were not among the pre-season 100 players named to the Wooden watch list. The group will be trimmed to 20 early in March and then will be cut down to a 10-player Wooden All-American team later in that month, before the Player of the Year is determined in April.
The 30 nominees…
A.J. Abrams Texas
Jeff Adrien Connecticut
DeJuan Blair Pittsburgh
Jon Brockman Washington
Nick Calathes Florida
Sherron Collins Kansas
Darren Collison UCLA
Stephen Curry Davidson
Jonny Flynn Syracuse
Taj Gibson USC
Blake Griffin Oklahoma
Tyler Hansbrough North Carolina
Luke Harangody Notre Dame
James Harden Arizona State
Manny Harris Michigan
Gerald Henderson Duke
Jordan Hill Arizona
Matt Howard Butler
Ty Lawson North Carolina
Kalin Lucas Michigan State
Wesley Matthews Marquette
Jerel McNeal Marquette
Jodie Meeks Kentucky
Greg Monroe Georgetown
Kyle Singler Duke
Tyler Smith Tennessee
Jeff Teague Wake Forest
Hasheem Thabeet Connecticut
T-Wizzle Louisville
Sam Young Pittsburgh
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February 7th, 2009 at 11:08 am
McNeal is losing ground to T-Wizzle in the Lowe’s Poll. Has our fan base lost its punch to sway Polls much like our team?
February 7th, 2009 at 11:12 am
not even going to be close to getting it, rightfully so. Meeks is a good player but not that good.
February 7th, 2009 at 11:24 am
he’ll make the cut for top 20…needs to step it up a lil for a top 10 finish………what up flip??
February 7th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Having Meeks in such good company as Sam Young, Greg Monroe, Taj Gibson among others is amazing. Not really. If he keep making the cuts then I’ll care. I have very little respect for this list because it has names of way too many people who dont come close to belonging.
February 7th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Patterson is having a better season than AT LEAST 1/3 of those people.
February 7th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I certainly hope that Mr. Williams was actually listed as T-Wizzle. That would be great.
February 7th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Patterson should have made the list. Better than several on that list.
February 7th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Congrats to Jodie. I wonder who was the last U.K. player to be in contention for Player of The Year honors?
February 7th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
How is Patterson not on that list???
That’s ridiculous.
February 7th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
1. Patterson should be on that list, too bad it’s so political
2. Vaught is right, UK HAS TO BEAT UF. If not, hello NIT.
3. Being a must-win, and seeing how it worked so well for the UT game, can we PLEASE have a GATOR HATER DAY!?! PLEASE!!! Do it for the Cats.
February 7th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
ColeD in the heezy, time to set these kids straight
February 7th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
T-Wizzle would be the best all around player on your scurb
team.
February 7th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Still think sUcK would finish in the top four of the BE?
South Florida > UaK Cayuts
February 7th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
T-Wizzle can’t shoot. hard to play in the NBA if you can’t shoot. Riding the pine might be something for him to do though…
February 7th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
14) Every mock draft has him going much higher than Meeks.
His three point percentage is also over 40%.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Looking at that list, Patrick should definitely be on there as well.
February 7th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
15. Idiot. T Won’t is in the ‘09 draft and Meeks in listed in ‘10, so yeah I guess he’s getting drafted before him… one year before him to be exact.
February 7th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
If you guys want to see two awesome high school players in KY, go to http://www.myspace.com/kyhoops and click on videos and you can see Anderson County’s CJ Penny and McCreary Central’s Aaron Watts. Both kids are recieving Division 1 interest and UK has been in contact with Penny. Check the site out.
February 8th, 2009 at 8:09 am
What is it with Tyler Smith and these voters? I’ve heard how great he is since he left Iowa, but just don’t see it. Maybe their scared that he’ll smoke them in a drive-by.
February 8th, 2009 at 8:09 am
^they are