2012-13 College basketball: Wooden Award finalists announced

Duke Blue Devils forward Mason Plumlee (5) dunks against the Louisville Cardinals during the 2012 Battle 4 Atlantis Championship in the Imperial Arena at the Atlantis Resort. Duke won 76-71. (Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports)

The Wooden Award is presented annually to the nation’s top basketball player, and the 2013 field is as crowded as ever. The Award’s selection committee has managed to trim the list of potential honorees down to 25 now that college basketball is rounding the mid-season mark. However, not even that is set in stone. Players can be removed or added from the list as the season goes on.

Three college basketball mainstays, Duke, Kansas and Mizzou each have two players on the list of 25. They are the only three programs to boast multiple players. The list is headlined by Duke’s high-flying Mason Plumlee, and Creighton’s Doug McDermott is also in the running after earning First Team All-America honors a season ago.

Without further ado …

No one from Oregon made the list, but they probably have the coolest shoes in all of college basketball.

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