<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Noah joined by teammates Brewer, Green on ballot Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Florida's Joakim Noah, Ohio State's Greg Oden, Wisconsin's Alando Tucker and UCLA's Arron Afflalo are among the 22 players on the ballot for the John R. Wooden Award as college basketball's player of the year. Florida's Corey Brewer and Taurean Green joined Noah on the ballot Saturday, making the defending national champion Gators the only team with more than one candidate. The winner will be announced April 7 at the Los Angeles Athletic Club. Freshmen are on the ballot for the second time in the award's history, with Oden and Kevin Durant of Texas represented. The other candidates are LSU's Glen Davis, Tennessee's Chris Lofton, North Carolina's Tyler Hansbrough, Nevada's Nick Fazekas, Oklahoma State's Mario Boggan, Oregon's Aaron Brooks, Boston College's Jared Dudley, Butler's A.J. Graves, Pittsburgh's Aaron Gray, Texas Tech's Jarrius Jackson, Texas A&M's Acie Law IV, Michigan State's Drew Neitzel, Kansas' Brandon Rush, Virginia's Sean Singletary, and Florida State's Al Thornton. For the first time, fans can vote for the winner, with their votes counting as one ballot toward the final tally.</div> Seriously, can someone please tell me how Noah, Green, and Brewer are on the list, but our best player(statistically and if you watch the games) in Al Horford is not? It makes absolutely no sense to me at all that our most consistent and best statistical player is not on the list.
<div class="quote_poster">GatorsowntheNCAA Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Seriously, can someone please tell me how Noah, Green, and Brewer are on the list, but our best player(statistically and if you watch the games) in Al Horford is not? It makes absolutely no sense to me at all that our most consistent and best statistical player is not on the list.</div> Haha, when I read the list, my exact thoughts were "man, Gators is gonna be pissed that Horford didn't make it over those guys." It's kind of a moot point anyway, because the award is going to go to one of four guys: Kevin Durant, Alando Tucker, Tyler Hansbrough, or Acie Law IV. I don't think that the latter three have half as much of a chance as Durant does either, unless voters are biased towards freshmen, which I wouldn't rule out considering the favoritism they've shown in the past towards certain traditions, like when they gave the award to Redick over Morrison last year.
<div class="quote_poster">Fast Luck Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I think Conley deserves getting a nod just as much as Oden.</div> I agree to an extent. Conley's really been overlooked all season. I mean, a freshman breaking the all-time single season assist record at a huge school like Ohio State? That's an amazing accomplishment, and unless you're watching a Buckeyes game on ESPN, you won't hear them talking about it. They'd rather go over the Hansbrough/Henderson incident a million times. Oden's probably more deserving of the nomination than Conley though, in my opinion, because of what he brings to the table defensively. I know he didn't really start meshing with the offense until the Tennessee game because of his injury, but he's probably the best defender in all of college basketball at this point. Even if he's not rejecting or changing shots in the post, he's intimidating opponents to the point where they wind up taking the majority of their shots from the outside.
