If there's something the Wooden Award has prioritized over the past two decades, it's winning.
In the past 20 years, no one has won the award on a team that didn't win at least one NCAA tournament game. In that span, only two winners were on teams that didn't advance to at least the Sweet 16, and Kevin Durant, at Texas in 2007, is the lone recipient from a team that finished with double-digit losses.
With that as a backdrop, the candidate pool took a beating over the past week as some high-profile players exited right away.