LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Athletic Club announced its 2024 Men's National Ballot for the John R. Wooden Award® presented by Principal® today (March 9) on ESPN College GameDay and Arizona guard Caleb Love was included on the ballot.
 
Selected by the Wooden Award National Advisory Board, the National Ballot consists of 15 student-athletes who are candidates for the Wooden Award All American Team and Wooden Award Trophy as the most outstanding college basketball player in the United States.
 
Love is on ESPN.com's All-American First Team and he was named a Second Team All-American earlier today by Jon Rothstein. The St. Louis native is averaging 19.3 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists while shooting a career-best 36.1% from the 3-point line and a career-best 43.7% overall from the floor.
 
Behind Love's dynamic play, Arizona has secured the Pac-12 Conference regular season championship outright and will be the No. 1 seed at the conference tournament next week in Las Vegas. In Pac-12 play, Love leads the league in 3-pointers made per game and ranks second in scoring, third in free throw percentage, eighth in assist-to-turnover ratio and ninth in assists.
 
He has scored in double figures in all but one game this season for the Wildcats and has registered 20 or more points on 14 occasions, including a career-high 36-point effort in the win at Oregon on Jan. 27 to set a new scoring record for Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene.
 
All balloted players have been certified by their university to meet or exceed the qualifications for the Wooden Award as set forth by Coach Wooden when the Award was established. The qualifications include: candidates must exhibit strength of character, both on and off the court; candidates must be full-time students in an accredited NCAA college or university; candidates must be making progress toward graduation and have a cumulative 2.00 grade point average since enrolling in their school; candidates must contribute to team effort; candidates must excel in both offense and defense; and candidates should be considered on their performance over the course of the entire season.
 
Voting will take place from March 18th to March 25th, and voters take into consideration a player's entire season of play, as well as the opening rounds of the NCAA Tournament. The finalists for the 2024 Wooden Award presented by Principal will be announced on April 2nd.
 
Wooden Award Presented by Principal
2023-24 Men's National Ballot
 
Johni Broome, Auburn
RJ Davis, North Carolina
Hunter Dickinson, Kansas
Zach Edey, Purdue
Kyle Filipowski, Duke
DaRon Holmes II, Dayton
Dalton Knecht, Tennessee
Tyler Kolek, Marquette
Jaedon LeDee, San Diego State
Caleb Love, Arizona
Kevin McCullar Jr., Kansas
Tristen Newton, UConn
Antonio Reeves, Kentucky
Mark Sears, Alabama
Jamal Shead, Houston 
 
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