USBWA National Freshman of the Year

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USBWA National Freshman of the Year
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Awarded forthe most outstanding freshmen male and female college basketball players
CountryUnited States
Presented by United States Basketball Writers Association
History
First award1989 (men)
2003 (women)
Most recent Reed Sheppard, Kentucky (men)
JuJu Watkins, USC (women)
Website Website

The USBWA National Freshman of the Year, with the men's and women's versions respectively named the Wayman Tisdale Award and Tamika Catchings Award, is an annual basketball award given to college basketball's most outstanding freshman male player and female player by the United States Basketball Writers Association, an association of college basketball journalists. The award was first given following the 1988–89 season for men, while the 2002–03 season marked the first season for the women's award.

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There has never been a tie for the men's award, but there have been two for the women, with Tasha Humphrey of Georgia and Candice Wiggins of Stanford sharing the 2004–05 award and Paige Bueckers of UConn and Caitlin Clark of Iowa sharing honors in 2020–21. Only four players have been named the National Player of the Year (by receiving the Naismith or Wooden awards for either men or women [lower-alpha 1] ) in the same season as being named the USBWA Freshman of the Year. Among men's players, Kevin Durant of Texas was the first in 2006–07, followed by Anthony Davis of Kentucky in 2011–12 and Zion Williamson of Duke in 2018–19. The first woman to receive both honors was Bueckers in 2020–21. Chris Jackson and Seimone Augustus, the two inaugural award winners for the men and women, respectively, were coincidentally both players at LSU.

On July 26, 2010, the USBWA announced that they would rename the men's National Freshman of the Year award after the late Wayman Tisdale, who in 1983 was named a first-team All-American as a freshman at Oklahoma. [1] The women's award was officially named in honor of Tamika Catchings on October 17, 2019. As a freshman at Tennessee in 1997–98, she averaged 18.2 points for the undefeated national champion Lady Volunteers. Catchings went on to be named a three-time USBWA All-American and the organization's national player of the year in 2000 before playing 16 seasons in the WNBA, retiring as the league's all-time leader in rebounds, steals, and made free throws, plus second in points. She also won four Olympic gold medals with the USA national team. [2]

Key

    †    Co-National Freshman of the Year
    *    Awarded a national player of the year award as a freshman:
the Naismith College Player of the Year or the John R. Wooden Award

Winners

Men
SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionReference
1988–89 Chris Jackson [lower-alpha 2] LSU PG [4]
1989–90 Kenny Anderson Georgia Tech PG [5]
1990–91 Rodney Rogers Wake Forest F [6]
1991–92 Chris Webber Michigan C [7]
1992–93 Jason Kidd California PG [7]
1993–94 Joe Smith Maryland PF / C [4]
1994–95 No award [lower-alpha 3]
1995–96
1996–97
1997–98 Larry Hughes Saint Louis SG [9]
1998–99 Quentin Richardson DePaul SF / SG [9]
1999–00 Jason Gardner Arizona PG [9]
2000–01 Eddie Griffin Seton Hall C [9]
2001–02 T. J. Ford Texas PG [4]
2002–03 Carmelo Anthony Syracuse SF [7]
2003–04 Luol Deng Duke SF [9]
2004–05 Marvin Williams North Carolina PF [6]
2005–06 Tyler Hansbrough North Carolina PF [6]
2006–07 Kevin Durant * Texas SF [10]
2007–08 Michael Beasley Kansas State PF [4]
2008–09 Tyreke Evans Memphis PG [11]
2009–10 John Wall Kentucky PG [12]
2010–11 Jared Sullinger Ohio State PF [13]
2011–12 Anthony Davis * Kentucky C [14]
2012–13 Marcus Smart Oklahoma State PG [15]
2013–14 Jabari Parker Duke SF [16]
2014–15 Jahlil Okafor Duke C [17]
2015–16 Ben Simmons LSU F [18]
2016–17 Lonzo Ball UCLA PG [19]
2017–18 Trae Young Oklahoma PG [20]
2018–19 Zion Williamson * Duke F [21]
2019–20 Vernon Carey Jr. Duke C [22]
2020–21 Cade Cunningham Oklahoma State PG [23]
2021–22 Jabari Smith Auburn F [24]
2022–23 Brandon Miller Alabama F [25]
2023–24 Reed Sheppard Kentucky G [26]
Women
SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionReference
1988–89No award
1989–90
1990–91
1991–92
1992–93
1993–94
1994–95
1995–96
1996–97
1997–98
1998–99
1999–00
2000–01
2001–02
2002–03 Seimone Augustus LSU SG [27]
2003–04 Tiffany Jackson Texas F [28]
2004–05† Tasha Humphrey Georgia C [29]
Candice Wiggins Stanford SG
2005–06 Courtney Paris Oklahoma C [30]
2006–07 Tina Charles UConn C [31]
2007–08 Maya Moore UConn SF [32]
2008–09 Shekinna Stricklen Tennessee SF / G [33]
2009–10 Brittney Griner Baylor C [34]
2010–11 Odyssey Sims Baylor PG [35]
2011–12 Elizabeth Williams Duke C [36]
2012–13 Jewell Loyd Notre Dame G [37]
2013–14 Diamond DeShields North Carolina G [38]
2014–15 Kelsey Mitchell Ohio State G [39]
2015–16 Kristine Anigwe California C [18] [40]
2016–17 Sabrina Ionescu Oregon G [41]
2017–18 Chennedy Carter Texas A&M G [42]
2018–19 Rhyne Howard Kentucky G [43]
2019–20 Aliyah Boston South Carolina F [44]
2020–21 † Paige Bueckers * UConn G [45]
Caitlin Clark Iowa G
2021–22 Aneesah Morrow DePaul F [46]
2022–23 Ta'Niya Latson Florida State G [47]
2023–24 JuJu Watkins USC G [48]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Freshmen are ineligible for the third major player of the year award in women's basketball, the Wade Trophy.
  2. ↑ Chris Jackson legally changed his name to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf in 1991 upon his conversion to Islam. [3]
  3. ↑ No award was given from 1995 to 1997, although the official USBWA website does not explain why. [8]

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