Twenty players are on the Wooden Award's trimmed-down list of candidates for the top player in women's college basketball.
Nineteen are juniors or seniors.
The lone sophomore? It's Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu.
One year after the dynamic Ducks guard was honored as the country's top freshman, she's in the running for its best player, period.
Ionescu's 19.9 points and 7.7 assists per game lead the Pac-12 and she also ranks 13th in rebounding (7.1). The NCAA's all-time triple-double leader with nine, Ionescu is also shooting the second-highest three-point percentage in the conference (46.9) with the third-best assist-to-turnover ratio (2.