2023-24 Women’s Wooden Award Odds & Favorites: Can Clark Claim Repeat Wooden Wins?

While repeat and two-time winners have been the rarest of the rare in the history of the men’s Wooden Award, they have been a frequent feature of the short history of the women’s Wooden Award.

Entering this season, only one player, Hall of Famer Ralph Sampson is the only player to be named the top player in men’s college basketball twice or in consecutive seasons.

The women’s Wooden Award, which was introduced in the 2003-04 season, has been around almost 30 years fewer than the men’s Wooden Award, which was first handed out in the 1976-77 season.

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But in its relatively short history, there have already been six repeat or two-time winners.

• Seimone Augustus, LSU (2005 & 2006)
• Candace Parker, Tennessee (2007 & 2008)
• Maya Moore, UConn (2009 & 2011)
• Brittney Griner, Baylor (2012 & 2013)
• Breanna Stewart, UConn (2015 & 2016)
• Sabrina Ionescu, Oregon (2019 & 2020)

Will a seventh join the list this season?

Last season, Caitlin Clark was named the top player in women’s college basketball after leading Iowa to the program’s first appearance in the national championship game in its first Final Four appearance since 1993.

Clark averaged career highs in scoring (27.8 PPG) and assists (8.6 APG) and averaged 7.1 RPG, and she tallied 17 double-doubles and five triple-doubles in 38 games.

Early in the new season, Clark is the favorite, and for good reason. But there are some very talented players hoping to keep Clark from becoming the latest player to win the women’s Wooden Award multiple times, including one who could become a two-time winner herself.

2023-24 Women’s Wooden Award Winner Odds

Odds are courtesy of BetUS.

• Caitlin Clark, Iowa +100
• Paige Bueckers, UConn +300
• Angel Reese, LSU +400
• Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina +1500
• Cameron Brink, Stanford +3000
• Mackenzie Holmes, Indiana +3000
• Elizabeth Kitley, Virginia Tech +3000
• Alissa Pili, Utah +3000
• Azzi Fudd, UConn +4000
• Rickea Jackson, Tennessee +4000
• Kiki Rice, UCLA +4000
• Hailey Van Lith, LSU +4000
• Ta’Niya Latson, Florida State +5000
• Cotie McMahon, Ohio State +5000
• Olivia Miles, Notre Dame +5000
• Aneesha Morrow, LSU +5000
• Shyanne Sellers, Maryland +7000

Women’s Wooden Award Favorites

Caitlin Clark, Iowa (+100)

Clark and the Hawkeyes made a big early statement last Thursday in an 80-76 win over Kitley and Virginia Tech, pouring in 44 points, eight rebounds, and six assists.

In her other two games, she came within three rebounds of a triple-double against Fairleigh Dickinson (28 points, seven rebounds, ten assists) and recorded a triple-double (24 points, ten rebounds, eleven assists) against Northern Iowa.

She may well not go back-to-back, but it won’t be for a lack of trying.

Paige Bueckers, UConn (+300)

In her freshman season, Bueckers won the Wooden Award after averaging 20.0 PPG, 4.9 RPG, 5.7 APG, and 2.3 steals per game and leading the Huskies to the Final Four.

In the two full seasons that followed, Bueckers played only 17 games thanks to missing a significant chunk of her sophomore season and all of last season.

But she is healthy again, and while UConn was unable to avoid an upset at NC State last Sunday, Bueckers showed that she is still very much an elite performer by putting up 27 points (11 of 18 FG, 2-3 3PT, 3-4 FT) against the Wolfpack.

Angel Reese, LSU (+400)

Despite averaging 23.0 PPG and 15.4 RPG and tallying 34 double-doubles in 36 games, Reese lost out to Clark for the Wooden Award. But she won the big prize, leading the Tigers to their first national championship after transferring from Maryland.

Can Reese add some individual hardware this season? She is unlikely to be as prolific this season, thanks to the staggering level of quality depth that the Tigers boast. Will voters look past that and put Reese ahead of Clark, Bueckers, and others?

Women’s Wooden Award Winners

• 2023: Caitlin Clark, Iowa
• 2022: Aliyah Boston, South Carolina
• 2021: Paige Bueckers, UConn
• 2020: Sabrina Ionescu, Oregon
• 2019: Sabrina Ionescu, Oregon
• 2018: A’ja Wilson, South Carolina
• 2017: Kelsey Plum, Washington
• 2016: Breanna Stewart, UConn
• 2015: Breanna Stewart, UConn
• 2014: Chiney Ogwumike, Stanford
• 2013: Brittney Griner, Baylor
• 2012: Brittney Griner, Baylor
• 2011: Maya Moore, UConn
• 2010: Tina Charles, UConn
• 2009: Maya Moore, UConn
• 2008: Candace Parker, Tennessee
• 2007: Candace Parker, Tennessee
• 2006: Seimone Augustus, LSU
• 2005: Seimone Augustus, LSU
• 2004: Alana Beard, Duke

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