LOS ANGELES, Ca.- Texas A&M junior Kelsey Bone was named to the John R. Wooden Award Finalist list announced today by The Los Angeles Club. Selected by the Wooden Award National Advisory Board, the ballot is made up of 15 student-athletes who have proven to their universities that they are making progress toward graduation and maintaining at least a cumulative 2.0 GPA. Bone was named the SEC Tournament MVP last week following Texas A&M’s first ever SEC Tournament title. In the three games at The Arena at Gwinnett Center last week Bone nearly averaged a double-double with 13.3 points and 9.3 rebounds per game in victories over No. 14 South Carolina, No. 9 Tennessee and No. 7 Kentucky. On the year, Bone averaged 16.9 points and 9.6 rebounds per game. Bone’s 559 points this season are the fifth highest total in program history and her 318 rebounds rank third. Hundreds of members of the college basketball media will vote on the Wooden Award Player of the Year and All American team, with voting concluding Wednesday, March 27. The Wooden Award All American Team, consisting of the nation’s top five players, will be announced the week of the "Elite Eight" round of the NCAA Tournament. The John R. Wooden Award Player of the Year will be announced at the 2013 Wooden Award Gala presented by Wendy’s on April 12, 2013, at The Los Angeles Athletic Club. The Gala will honor the Men’s and Women’s Wooden Award winners, All Americans and the Legends of Coaching Award winner, Kansas Head Coach Bill Self. The ACC nabbed four of the 15 selections, followed by the Big East and SEC each with three; the Big 12 had two; and the CAA, Big Ten and Pac-12 had one apiece.
