Marquee matchups and compelling team performances have defined the 2023-24 women’s college basketball season. Now it’s time to highlight some standout individual play.
With Selection Sunday quickly approaching and all attention about to turn toward women’s March Madness, ESPN’s Charlie Creme, Alexa Philippou and Michael Voepel hand out the major individual awards and name their All-America first team.
The winners were an easy and unanimous vote. In fact, the player, freshman and coach of the year were runaway winners. And there was no debate for the runners-up for the top player and freshman.
Determining a five-person All-America team was more challenging — and notable for a certain center’s absence. But two freshmen proved themselves too sensational to exclude.
Last season felt like a breakthrough for Clark, who was the Wooden Award recipient — the national player of the year — with South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston still in the mix. This season has been more of a coronation for Clark, who has broken records left and right while leading Iowa to the Big Ten tournament title and a likely No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.
Clark passed Kelsey Plum for the NCAA women’s scoring record, Lynette Woodard (who played in the AIAW era) for the…
