Iowa star Caitlin Clark has been announced as the Naismith Player of the Year for women’s college basketball for the second year in a row.
Finalists alongside Clark were Stanford’s Cameron Brink – who won Defensive Player of the Year – USC’s JuJu Watkins and UConn’s Paige Bueckers.
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The Iowa star is the first player to go back-to-back for the award since UConn’s Breanna Stewart won it three times in a row from 2014-16. Just seven players prior to Clark have won the award in consecutive seasons, and she becomes the 10th women’s basketball player to earn the Naismith multiple times.
Among Clark’s accolades this year include becoming the all-time leading scorer in D-I basketball while averaging a career-high 32 points, 9.0 assists, 7.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game.
South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley was named the Coach of the Year for the third straight season, becoming the first coach to three-peat in the award’s history. It’s her fourth coach of the year accolade in the last five seasons.
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