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Women’s Basketball’s Booker and Harmon named to Wooden Award Late Midseason Top 20 Watch List
02.10.2026 | Women's Basketball
Texas duo on watch list for national player of the year award.
LOS ANGELES — Two-time First Team All-American and 2025 SEC Player of the Year Madison Booker and three-time All-America honorable mention honoree Rori Harmon have been named to the 2026 Wooden Award Late Midseason Top 20 Watch List, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced on Tuesday.
Selected by a panel of national college basketball experts, the list comprises 20 student-athletes who are frontrunners for one of the most prestigious awards in college basketball: the Wooden Award All-America Team and the Wooden Award Most Outstanding Player.
The players on the list are considered strong candidates for the 2026 John R. Wooden Award Women's Player of the Year. The National Ballot will feature 15 top players who have demonstrated they meet or exceed Wooden Award qualifications.
Rori Harmon is the Texas career assist leader with 894 assists. She broke a 40-year old record and has now extended that record by 118 assists. Harmon also holds the Texas career steals record with 351, breaking that record which had stood since 1980. In her collegiate career she has 1,508 points, 894 assists, 351 steals and 610 rebounds. This season her assists to turnover numbers are 163 to 37 (4.41 assists to turnover ratio). That assist to turnover ratio ranks second in the country.
Madison Booker, the 2025 SEC Player of the Year, is averaging career-highs in points (19.0), rebounds (6.7) and steals (2.5) this season and is shooting 50.5 percent from the field for the season. Booker has nine games of 20 or more points this season and 37 for her career. Booker, in her junior season has already climbed to 14th on the Texas career scoring list with 1,688 points and is 20 points from cracking the top-10. Over the summer Booker earned her fourth gold medal with USA Basketball as Team USA won the 2025 FIBA Women's Americup in Santiago, Chile.
