Point guard or shooting guard? The question came up on Monday when Arizona Wildcat Aari McDonald was noticeably absent from the preseason watch list for the Nancy Lieberman Award that goes to the nation’s top point guard. At least for this year’s award season, McDonald is a shooting guard.
On Tuesday, the nation’s leading returning scorer was named to the preseason watch list for the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award that goes to the nation’s top shooting guard.
The argument for her as a shooting guard is pretty simple. As a redshirt sophomore, McDonald was third in the nation in scoring with 24.