The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women’s Basketball’s Booker selected to Wooden Award Top 20 watch list
02.11.2025 | Women's Basketball
AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas women's basketball sophomore Madison Booker was named to the 2024-25 Women's Late Midseason Top 20 Watch List, the Los Angeles Athletic Club's John R. Wooden Award announced today.
Selected by a panel of national college basketball experts, the list comprises 20 student-athletes who are frontrunners for one of the most prestigious honors in college basketball: the Wooden Award All-American Team and the Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player.
For the season Booker is averaging 16.5 points per game and 6.6 rebounds per game in 29.7 minutes per game. She has tallied 72 assists, 37 steals and 15 blocked shots.
Booker averaged 20 points per game this past the week in helping Texas to victories over No. 24 Vanderbilt and No. 2 South Carolina.
Before a Texas crowd of 10,517, Booker notched her fifth double-double of the season with 20 points and 11 rebounds to lift the Longhorns to a 66-62 victory over South Carolina, which broke the Gamecocks 57-game SEC winning streak.
The game between Texas and South Carolina peaked at 1.3 million views, the most-watched women's college basketball game across ESPN platforms this season.
Booker has scored 20 or more points in 11 games this season and has reached double-figures in 20 games this season and the last eight in a row.
Over the Longhorns current eight game winning streak, Booker is averaging 20.1 points per game and 7.8 rebounds per game. Booker is shooting 48.4 percent from the field and 46.7 percent from 3-point range over that stretch.
Booker and the Longhorns take on No. 8 Kentucky in Lexington on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 6:00 p.m. CT on ESPN2.
Wooden Award Top 20 Watch List
Georgia Amoore Kentucky
Lauren Betts UCLA
Mikayla Blakes Vanderbilt
Madison Booker Texas
Paige Bueckers UConn
Talaysia Cooper Tennessee
Audi Crooks Iowa State
Yvonne Ejim Gonzaga
Hannah Hidalgo Notre Dame
Aziaha James NC State
Flau'jae Johnson LSU
Ta'Niya Latson Florida State
Cotie McMahon Ohio State
Olivia Miles Notre Dame
Annesah Morrow LSU
Te-Hina Paopao South Carolina
Sedona Prince TCU
Sarah Strong UConn
Hailey Van Lith TCU
JuJu Watkins USC
