MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia University women’s basketball senior guard Bria Holmes was named to the John R. Wooden Award Women’s Preseason Top 30 list, as announced on ESPN’s SportsCenter and ESPNW on Tuesday. The list is comprised of 30 student-athletes who are the early front-runners for college basketball’s most prestigious honor. The list is chosen by a preseason poll of national women’s college basketball media members.
This is the second year that Holmes was named to the preseason watch list, after earning that distinction in 2014. The New Haven, Connecticut, native was named to the 2015 Preseason All-Big 12 team.